The Universe and Gods:

In the story of Edenworld, the deities and all their creations originate from a singular divine source known as The Universe. Because The Universe is infinite and inconceivable to even the greatest of sentient beings, it is assumed that The Universe fathered all the gods and goddesses across the multiplanes to keep each other company. When the Gods where born they felt the loneliness and distance of The Universe, and created things of their own to entertain them and keep them company. Often working together, these Gods created galaxies of stars and planets to support their own children.

The children of these Gods fill the planets, and in turn create their own children, for many of the same reasons The universe created the Gods. What is known is that each God and Goddess has their own set of morals, which they impose upon their creations, leading to a manifestation of their physical will in the form of religion.

Renegades and Divine Annihilation:

Like people, not all Gods get along. Occasionally, if a God becomes too powerful, it becomes a Renegade and leaves its home galaxy to challenge Gods with opposing alignments. If a God happens to be destroyed within its own galaxy, then all of the things created by that particular God will instantly vanish. If the galaxy of the slain God was the result of a cooperative effort between two or more Gods, then the damage inflicted by the removal of one God has the potential to affect the creations of those who remain.

Law and Chaos:

The only constants in The Universe are Law and Chaos, and which of these forces a Gods aligns themselves with is a matter of personal choice. Time itself exists because of the presence of Law and Chaos, but its flow can be adversely affected if there is a disproportionately high number of Gods aligning themselves with a single force in any particular galaxy. Chaos is in charge of radical changes such as birth, death, bursts of evolution, and the wild potential of imagination. Law lords over things like gravity, temperature, mathematics, and the elements.

Good and Evil:

The concepts of Good and Evil are social and religious constructs created by the children of the Gods. In many cases, a society of sentient beings will create laws to protect themselves, but only the moral majority of the creatures consider these laws to be important. If a creature follows and acts in accordance with the social or religious majority of a society, they are considered to be a Good person. Those who choose to act upon their own morals are in the minority, and tend to break the laws that have been set in place by the majority. These individuals are often considered to be Evil. While Law and Chaos are forces followed by the Gods, Good and Evil are extremely important constructs which allow the mortals and the immortals to maintain a degree of functionality between each other.

Gates:

Most Gods create Gates for their expired children to pass through to reach their destined afterlife. Gates are like doorways into either Heaven or Hell, and in Edenworld the universal gate established for this purpose by the native Gods, Wave and Sargilum, is the World Tree. A Gate can be exploited by any God, however, and therefore it is a primary target for any Renegade God looking to cause trouble.

The Afterlife:

Each God has its own House where it resides, away from the physical plane. These Houses are like infinitely large islands where the souls of a God’s children end up once their physical bodies expire. Depending upon the will of the individual God, souls either remain with their God or reincarnate to exist again in the physical world. The realm of the Afterlife is connected to the physical realm by a Gate. In times of peril, such as when a God is assaulted by a Renegade, he can shut himself up in his “heaven” and fight remotely through his children.

Sargilum :

The Lawful Goddess of the Sargon (Thousand Parts Mother) beast people is believed to be the planet herself. It is said that her original form possessed 1000 eyes, ears, horns, tails, and claws. In order to create life, Sargilum sacrificed her form by pouring out her blood to create the sea and shedding her flesh to create the earth. Her mind transformed into the People and her will guides the sun, moon, and stars. Because the world is considered to be the living body of the Goddess, the Sargons frown upon anything that pollutes or exploits its resources, and they are in conflict with both Humans and Mashina for this reason.

For the Sargons, time moves in a grand circular cycle, where great changes happen at apogee and perigee. It is foretold that when the wheel of time has made half a revolution, there will come an apocalypse of the old and a birth of the new. When time has completed a full rotation, all creatures will return back to the Mother that spawned them, to exist in a state of Nirvana.

Wave:

Wave is a Chaos entity of positive energy whose existence creates continuous waves of energy, emanating outwards from him like an inexorable ocean. These waves break into ripples that bounce off each other to create the stars, planets, and all life. Wave is the God of Humans and Mashina, and he wishes for his children live their lives according to their true natures.

This God is worshipped under a multitude of different names, due to Human cultural diversity. Mashina, on the other hand, are still in the early stages of understanding the will of their God, and do the best they can in trying to interpret it.

Anti-Life Matter:

Anti-Life Matter is the antagonistic Renegade Law God, who possesses dead or desperate creatures called the Devils and acts through them under the guise of wanting to create a utopian world without the Chaos of free will.

Anti-Life Matter appears as a cloudy red nebula of stars, billowing outward and assimilating all that it touches into a singular entity of pure Law and rigid order. in the absence of Chaos, creatures cannot die, and cannot be born. Anything that has been assimilated exists in a Mˆbius strip of anti-life.