Aeterna

### Diety

Alitheia tou Aethra(Goddess of the Sky and Life) and Arius(God of Death and the Afterlife), Erkhaan (Demi-God of Warfare and Chaos), Archie (Demi-Goddess of Peace and Knowledge), Amets (Demi-Goddess of the Night and Dreams), Tulio (Demi-God of the Day and Entertainment

### Belief

The belief of Aeterna is that life and death should be balanced, as should darkness and light be as well. It is only natural for one soul to be given life by Alitheia tou Aethra, proceed with it's life until it has to meet Arius and then rest easy until it is decided that it is it's time to be divided into several soul fragments, which 3/4 would become stars and the remaining fragment would be reincarnated.

# Origins

## Beginning of Dawn:The rule of The Void and it's downfall

Once upon a time the whole cosmos was nothing but a black space with nothing in it, it was complete darkness, an entity called "The Void". The Void was an entity that ruled the space for a really long time, it was practically the only thing known to be able to give life and bring destruction, yet it was doing nothing, sitting completely still, being chaotic but also peaceful, a complete harmony. It was keeping every sign of light within itself for many years to go, but that suppression only led the the power of Light sources to get larger and larger until one day when The Void couldn't keep it's grasp over the Light and it exploded. The song of Harmony was no more, the loud noise of the Big Bang that happened mixed Light particles with Void ones and had spread them all around the Universe, creating stars and different worlds in it's way.

## Birth of the Deities and arrival in Iaddithis

After the Big Bang of The Void, both the Light and the Void didn't exactly die out, instead they were now orbs, traveling through the cosmos. While traveling around the Universe, both orbs were attracted by a start that was shining the brightest compared to others ,yet it was distanced pretty far away from others that it was getting colder the closer you get to it. Suddenly the two Orbs collided into the star, making it lose it's balance in the Universe and it began falling, turning into a Shooting Star. The newborn entity was traveling across the Universe with the speed of light until one day when it entered the orbit of one the Worlds, called Iaddithis. It took a while for the falling entity to crash into Iaddithis and by the time it did so, it was in the form of a solid rock-like material. Due to how fast it was traveling, the Meteorite was broken and from it, two new entities came out, but different from other entities before, those two had a shape. The two entities were a siblings that resulted from the collide of the Void and Light orbs into a star.

# Birth of Life on Iaddithis

The two Star born entities were curious what happened as they seem to be clueless and don't remember how they arrived on this soil. At first they struggled to walk as they weren't used to it but eventually they learnt how to do it. The Star born felt like the world was pretty empty, it was just a bland surface with very small sources of water, but together they began working on making the world less empty and more crowded. It took them several days to create different biomes with different climates according to each, create tall mountains from the surfaces, expand the water sources there were and make seas, lakes, rivers and many others from them. After they were done with the soil, they added wild life to the lands and seas of Iaddithis, making the place more lively, with some species being more dangerous than others. Looking at the world they managed to create, both deities still felt like they were missing something and after thinking about it, they decided to start working. With no clear plans on what they were going to do, both siblings started adding components of the things they have made so far and after lots of tries, the Piavolar race. Later they would create several other races, who ended up being either completely wiped out or there are very few people remaining through out the entire world of Iaddithis. The races that the Deities had created would go on to reproduce, the Piavolar one being the one that has a lot of people even to this day. The Star born siblings would watch as the world they created didn't need much intervention from them as it would go through multiple generations that would go on to make settlements through out Iaddithis, notable and remaining one being Sanctum. The people would go on to worship the two siblings as Gods, though of what would become clear later. The now-Gods would make a deal with each other on how to control and contribute to the world. One of them would be the Goddess of Life and the Sky, that would lead souls into the world, helping them settle into it, and the other one would be the God of Death and the Afterlife, helping souls move into the afterlife and also rest before it's their time to reincarnate. The Goddess would come to be known as "Alitheia tou Aethra" and the God "Arius".

# The Divine Order

Both of the Gods would live away from each other, Alitheia living well into a temple above the clouds where she could look at the people below and help souls land gently, and Arius living near the core of the world where he created the "Underworld Realm". And thus, they began their new order over the world with their assigned duties.

## Demi-gods

Beside the two of siblings, there could also be other god-like deities if either of the two siblings deemed that someone would be worthy of being promoted to one. Demi-Gods are deities that were deemed stronger than the regular mortal and had the potential to be even more, but in order to become one, either Arius of Alitheia tou Aethra had to recognize their potential.

## Erkhaan, Demi-God of Warfare

When there were time when the world developed this much and people weren't dying as much, Arius was getting worried that the balance in Iaddithis would be no more, he went on a quest to find the strongest person to ever exist and found a man named Erkhaan. Erkhaan was a gladiator who was unbeatable and his opponents feared him, his name was known by a lot of people and made them shiver every time they heard it. One night, Arius appeared in front of Erkhaan and him being frightened by the sudden appearance of the God, fell on his back. The God of Death assured the warrior that he has nothing to fear and then recognized his almost inhuman strength. The gladiator was now kneeling down in front of the God, showing his respect to him and as Arius approached him, he placed his hand on Erkhaan's head and a sudden flow of energy and some dark aura struck the warrior. Erkhaan was now promoted to a Demi-God and Arius had tasked him to bring War and unrest to people, and so he did. The peace was suddenly disrupted and was now replaced unrest and chaos amongst people as war put halt to the peaceful times and any development that was achieved. Erkhaan had done his job perfectly.

## Archie, Demi-Goddess of Peace and Knowledge

Seeing how Arius and Erkhaan had brought a very dark age upon the world, Alitheia tou Aethra was very saddened by the deaths of tens of thousands of people and how brothers had now turned against one another. Even though her brother had a good reason for it, it had now gotten out of control and the Goddess decided to counter Arius' actions by doing something similar to him. Alitheia went on to search for the most peaceful and reasonable person amongst the people. She knew she was getting closer because the sun was getting brighter and brighter until it was shining upon a girl sitting in the middle of a flower field. The girl's name was Archie, she was the smartest person in her town and had proven it countless times. She loved to read books and would always learn something new from them. Suddenly Archie was lifted from the ground and was more confused rather than scared and then she saw she was floating towards Alitheia. Once the two women were close to one another, Alitheia tou Aethra smiled at the lady and apologized for dragging her into the sky but explained why she did it. Archie was flattered that she was acknowledged by a Goddess to be the smartest human on Iaddithis and to be chosen by her, then suddenly the Sun shined even brighter upon her and she felt the flow of energy and a light aura through her body, thus promoting her to a Demi-Goddess. She was now tasked by Alitheia to stop the wars when they were about to get really bloody and give people Knowledge. Now Erkhaan was confronted by Archie any time there was war and there was balance between life and death again, but unlike him Archie had wings to fly with. The Demi-Goddess would bring peace to the people when Erkhaan brought them war and she would bring them reasoning when the Demi-God brought them chaos.

## Amets, Demi-Goddess of the Night and Dreams

Arius felt like people weren't able to go to sleep so easy and would have problems with doing so or they just won't sleep for nights at a time and so a search for the kindest person began. The God of the Afterlife was searching for the person via the moon. Every time he was getting closer to them, the Moon would switch it's phases. In the beginning of his journey, the Moon was at it's "New Moon" phase then as he kept getting close through "Wanning Crescent" , "Third Quarter" , "Waning Gibbous" and finally when he reached a small house it was a Full Moon. The house belonged to a lady called Amets and her status of "kindest person in the town" was well deserved. She was working a nurse for the most part but would also volunteer at Elder Care, kindergartens, schools and a lot of other different places, all just because she was happy to help others. Arius entered the house and made his way to the lady's room, where she was asleep. He sat beside her and tapped her on the shoulder, waking her up. Amets slowly opened her eyes and due to her being half-asleep, she thought she was still dreaming. Arius would smile and place his warm hand on her forehead and caress it gently and transition energy and some of his aura into her. Once all that was done, Amets sat up and would notice a few feathers fell from her back, turning back to see where they came from, she saw how now she had big, 'Midnight Purple' colored wings. Both Arius and Amets went outside where she tried out her wings, adoring them. When she got back down, Arius gave her a task to help people go to sleep every night and make sure they were resting and dreaming. Every night Amets would be sitting on the Moon, her yawn making people sleepy and telling them it's time to go to bed and would sing the Lullabies to help them fall asleep and ease their sleep.

## Tulio, Demi-God of Day and Entertainment

Liking Arius' idea, Alitheia tou Aethra decided to find a person to help people get started with their day and find something to occupy themselves with until night approaches. She asked Archie to bring her the most energetic and lively person in the world and without any hesitation whatsoever, Archie took off, as if she knew where to find them. The Sun was rising up as the Demi-Goddess arrived at one of the liveliest towns. There she noticed only one man outside and decided to approach them. Not wanting to reveal herself, she decided to dare the man that he couldn't climb up the mountain that was by the town without having to stop or slowing down by the time the sun had to set. The man accepted the dare and start his hiking journey. Archie knew well that climbing the mountain would take way longer than the time she gave him and that was her way of testing it was him. As the man was climbing up, Archie would ask him questions such as what his name was, what he was doing up so early and if he wakes up early every day. The man, whose name is Tulio admmited that he gets very little amount of sleep, yet a reasonable amount and wakes up a bit before the sun rises up. Amazed by that, Archie kept following the man as he was climbing up the mountain. Just as the Sun was setting, Tulio reached the mountain's highest peak and Archie congratulated him. Unbeknownst to her was Alitheia tou Aethra was also watching them. The Goddess stepped in front of Tulio, clearly amazed by what he just did so she decided to reward him by promoting him. Tulio, now promoted to a Demi-God, was responsible to help people wake up and give them things to do during the day till it was the night's turn to come.

# Concepts and Philosophies

The main concept of Aeterna is that in every evil there's a sense of kindness and in every kindness there's a sense of evil, just as in every light there is some darkness and in every darkness there is some light. The two gods of Aeterna represent this concept perfectly. Arius, the God of Death and the Afterlife considered to be the visualization of darkness due to him being the last thing a person would see after their death and he helps people into the afterlife, putting a fragment of their soul to rest until it is the time to get reincarnated. Now, Alitheia tou Aethra is the visualization of light because she is the first thing someone meets before they are given life again and start all over. According to old traditions, when a baby is born the people would cry because of how it has to go through all the hardships in life, but when someone dies, people would actually be cheerful and all that because the person can finally rest after all those hardships they had to go through. In general, balance and harmony should be maintained no matter what and the two Gods are responsible for that. Whenever one of them disrupts the balance, the other one has to make sure to bring back order before it goes out of control.

It would be important to mention how science in the past was so far-ahead that scientists managed to discover the two fastest entities ever known to man. Those are the Speed of Light and Speed of Darkness. The first to be discovered was the Speed of Light and then afterwards scientists discovered another entity that was catching up to it, that ended up being called Speed of Darkness. In theory this would make sense, Both Speed of Light and Darkness are constantly after one another, keeping the harmony between each other, not letting the other to outrun them.