Quietly Luna awoke within the emptiness of the void. As her awareness grew of the vast nothing surrounding her, she saw the black sun that gave a strange sort of light to the space. Its harsh light was too bright for her, she much preferred the darkness, but there was none of that either. There was simply nothing. But this did not disturb Luna, she saw the great nothing as a canvas, her fingers the brush, and her will the paints.
She moved to a point far from the black sun, until it was just a twinkling star in the sky. Satisfied, she reached out, and took a bit of the ether in her hands. She molded it, compressed it, and formed it until it took the shape of a many faceted jewel almost perfectly spherical in shape. Into this she breathed her power, and the crystal began to glow softly with a gentle light. She named it Maia. And Luna was pleased.
She had a gentle light much more to her liking, but she wished to make more. She took more of the ether in her gentle fingers, and more and more, shaping many crystals. Some huge, the size of mountains, some tiny, like grains of sand. These she set in motion around Maia, forming a great ring of matter circling about it. The great ring formed the world of Aether, the shimmering lands. Luna took form and walked upon Aether’s plains, surveying her creation. And Luna was pleased.
Act 1: Create crystal star Maia.
Maia is very dim, producting a soft blue light. It's light would be only enough to produce evening or twilight like light on worlds near it.
Act 2: Create Aether, the shimmering lands.
Aether takes the form of a ring of land around Maia. All the land, so far, is formed from crystals, the mountains are huge ones, but most of the crystal are tiny, forming a shimmering sand.