A person/people (often a
god, although the occasional
Mad Scientist or
Evilutionary Biologist dabbles in this as well), that has/have
created an entire place or species. Frequently in fantasy fiction, there are often several creators of the races that inhabit the world, and the ones who created them often labeled as the
King of the Gods of the race's respective
pantheon. The creator of the world or setting is often
above these gods, someone who may in fact be the
God Of The Gods.
A common subtype has a being that personally created the
monsters of the setting, which is usually inspired by
Echidna
, who mothered most of the monsters found throughout
Greek Mythology.
A
Creation Myth often involves a character of this type, although what's made could have been created without the involvement of any being whatsoever. Some type of spontaneous generation, perhaps?
Examples:
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- Eru Iluvatar from The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings.
- Aslan from The Chronicles of Narnia.
- Discworld has three: The Creator who began the entire universe (with an analog to a musical number), the being who built the actual Disc (on commission), and the God of Evolution who designed most of the actual species (carefully ignoring the fact that by the definition of evolution, his job makes no sense). Incidentally, Rincewind has, at least indirectly, interfered with all of these.
- Starmaker, by Olaf Stapledon, is a 1937 science fiction novel which broke new ground by exploring the concept in relationship to the size and scale of the known universe and the fact that most of the universe seems to consist of empty space with occasional blobs of flaming hydrogen.
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