World creation

Introduction

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• History of Earth
• Primordials

Chaos vs. Order

What was before time, space, or matter? Technically, nothing—and yet, a slumbering consciousness that allowed everything to come into existence. Out of Chaos came a paradox, and that paradox was Order. A singularity that gave birth to two primordials, born outside of any comprehensible concept. Creation had started with two equal forces, violently separating them from each other and forcing them to awaken.

At first, the two consciousness clashed with hostility: as Order attempted to subdue Chaos, Chaos tried to rip Order apart, resulting in countless attempts to overpower the other primordial. Between each terrifying Word of War spanned neither quettaseconds or Planck units, as there was no timeline to measure between epochs, yet it took ages upon ages to regain the power to create and destroy new concepts.

Eventually, Order prevailed—with the command of Silence, the second primordial disarmed their opponent, leaving Chaos without power to undo whatever was to follow. Without their destructive counterpart, Order was finally free to fill the emptiness and after gaining the upper hand, force Chaos into an eternal slumber, never to be awoken and allowed to ruin yet another project.

This marked the first recorded epoch of creation, yet not the start of the universe we know.

Creating the universe(s)

The first created universe was everything Order wanted: symmetrical in all forms, beautiful and without flaw. Made of perfect shapes and nothing else, it was the epitome of Order's design—and yet, without life, it was… Empty. Boring. Without purpose. There was a limit to Order's imagination, and no amount of raw creation was going to break the mold. But how to start anew without the power to destroy what was once created? Order had never been more powerful, surrounded by perfection, yet oddly… Lonely.

What if there were other primordials, ones that obeyed Order's command? And so, into existence came the six primary elements: Time, Matter, Gravity, Magnetism, Light, and Energy. They helped Order create the second universe: full of life, but otherwise like the first, filled with calming shapes and not much more. It was a study of everything the seven primordials could do, testing their powers to their limits, breaking and fixing whatever they broke in the process. Time was split into multiverses; matter and antimatter created their own spaces; gravity pulled and crushed everything it touched, while magnetism repelled and spread whatever remained across multiple timelines. Finally, light and energy transformed everything they came across, creating a repeating cycle of change.

These were the building blocks Order wanted to build upon. But the second universe was as unstable and hostile as it was magnificent; with no limits and rules, nothing could survive for long without being inevitably destroyed or transformed. What needed to change and how much, exactly?

Eventually, the primordials settled for a single timeline where actions had consequences, some of them irreversible. As long as change was gradual and linear, things made sense and upkeeping the rules was simple. But once again, the second universe had to be discarded in order to start a new project, yet this one was going to be Order's magnum opus. Creation had to start small, as small as Matter could make it, and then bind together to form larger objects. Gravity and Magnetism would help distribute it across the universe, where Light and Energy could take over to create life. This would become the human universe, starting with a Big Bang as the primordials were released into it.

However, there was a dark secret hiding in the universe's fabric, something Order couldn't have foreseen: a remnant of Chaos, while still slumbering, slowly and unavoidably affecting everything as time went on. And there was nothing Order could have done to prevent it, even if it had been caught earlier…

Heaven and Hell

Oblivious to the spreading imperfections across the universe, Order grew impatient waiting for time to pass and the universe to support life, but instead of creating another universe, another subspace—a realm—was formed. It featured the most beautiful parts of the previous universe: endless blue skies spanning across the horizon, enormous clouds of pure white, green meadows covered in all the colors of the rainbow. This realm would later be known as Heaven, but in the beginning, it was merely a distraction from the slog that was life's insufferably slow evolution.

And what was life like? Bacteria. Fungi. Viruses. The lesser primordials were scolded several times for not speeding things up, but without the power to straight-up create what they wanted, natural evolution was the only way to proceed. So, Order left Earth—the single planet that had generated into a perfect location and [tilanne]—and created the first non-primordial creatures to inhabit Heaven: the archangels.

The lost paradise

As time went by, another realm was born, and the angels were sent to fill it with His blessings. A seemingly perfect home for all kinds of mythical creatures, the unnamed realm was God's pet project, as He came up with more and more magical animals and other kinds of life, commanding the first angels to watch over them.

However, archangels were not God's only creations, and soon their equal counterparts—the seven Deadly Sins—made their first appearance. Taken by surprise and appalled by the unholy creatures, the archangels declared war against the monstrosities, […] Battles lasting over several millennia ravaged the realm and led to the destruction of both its landscape and wildlife, …

Earth

Mankind

Order instilled humans with the ability to pick out patterns above all, giving them a sense of comfort when they could predict the outcome of their actions and rely on their surroundings. Thus, humans learned to be afraid of disorder and paradoxes; things they didn't know. To make them dependant of His light, they were given imagination to fill the darkness with unknown horrors and language to further share their stories.