Creation

A long, long time ago, there was nothing. An empty world, grey and featureless. There was no air, no earth and no life. The material realm was just an empty wasteland where the numerous different planes met, and so it remained for millenia.

On the celestial plane, where the divine beings resided, chaos started brewing. After living for eons in paradise, depravity and extravagance took the upper hand amongst the divine beings. Their lavish lives and hunt for enjoyment pushed them to even greater extremes. They left behind sustenance and physical pleasures and started hunting other means of fulfillment. Violence and murder was something that kept the divines enthralled. The divines, being immortals were enamored by the idea of killing the unkillable, and so they tried, again and again. In the end, many of them had grown so twisted and so broken that they were mere shells of their former selves.

Two twins, Alluri and Illuri saw the destruction of their kin unfold before them, and sought to do something about it. So they travelled through the planes, slowly picking up bits and pieces that they carried with them to what is now known as the material realm. it was blank and dead, a perfect canvas for the twins to enact their final action.

From the elemental plane of water, the created oceans that filled the vast voids of the world. From the elemental plane of fire, the created the sun and stars high in the sky, bringing warmth to the world. From the elemental plane of wind  they brought powerful currents of air that shaped the world. From the elemental plane of earth, they gave the greatest gift of all, the gift of life. They poured their very essence into the material realm before succumbing to the exhaustion of their own labour, after which they ascended into the heavens above as the two moons of the world, Alluri and Illuri.

The divine beings had all witnessed this act of selflessness, and they saw the result of their actions. Life took its first steps out of the barren earth, helpless and alone. The divine beings finally understood what had happened and set aside their former lifestyles. Life needed caretakers and guardians, and who better to do so than the divines themselves?