Mirage

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The Demon of Imagination, Mirage, was said to have created a system of huge dams not merely to produce mirrors, but to create the very concept of mirrors and reflections. According to myth, Mirage did not just craft one mirror or the first mirror, but the entire concept of reflections, allowing the world to see itself as it truly was—something other deities disliked because it revealed the harsh truth about themselves. The myth explained that Mirage was once sad and lonely because, despite her power to imagine anything, she could not imagine herself.^[4]

To remedy this, she created something from nothing by finding a place where water flowed across mountains, building dams and lock systems that formed the vast, perfectly flat Mirror Lake, intended as the first mirror. According to different versions of the myth, Mirage either trapped strange shapeless creatures in the lake's mist—creatures that took on the shape of whoever looked into the water—or simply imagined the reflection of the moon on the lake's surface, thereby giving birth to the first reflection. These creatures, created out of nothing by Mirage, eventually spread across existence, dwelling in the Mirror Realm—a space between somewhere and nowhere—and rarely interacting with the real world. The Others, beings closely related to these creatures, were domesticated and reshaped by Mirage, populating her Palace of Imagination and possibly easing her loneliness by surrounding herself with reflections. This creation of reflections and the Others was considered a significant and unique accomplishment, reflecting Mirage's profound influence on the fundamental nature of reality within the myth.^[4]