Genesis

Before time began, there was only darkness and light spinning around each other in the form of two orbs in an endless void.

As there was no time or matter, there was no sound either. Thus the two orbs were dancing graciously in the unending silence towards nothing; always atracting each other but never able to touch. Untill when time was, the very first moment. As the two orbs spun besides each other what seemed like an unexplained flaw made them fly just close enough to touch and a burst of energy happened. The birth of matter. A single tiny lumb of matter now connected the two orbs together with a string. As the orbs kept flying around they started spinning an ever growing web slowly turning into the first creature of existence, The Dreamer. When the two orbs were finished animating it, The Dreamer took them and inserted them into its eye sockets. It was now everything. It knew of the endless possibilities of light and shadow and soon learned to harness them. Through its dreams The Dreamer created unimaginable thing; created worlds and destroyed them in the blink of an eye. But as powerful as it was, it grew lonely. As it floated through the empty void it closed it's eyes and from each of it's eyes fell a tear. From his right eye, the orb of shadow, fell a tear into his hand that created a being of shadow, Buthalesh. And from his left eye, the orb of light, fell a tear that gave birth to a being of light, Taeshalac. The Dreamer was pleased as he was no longer alone. He had created the Brothers of Creation.

Time passed and Buthalesh and Taeshalac helped The Dreamer structure the void, creating worlds and life, flourishing in the balance created by their makers.

Taeschalac, the being of light created while his brother Buthalesh destroyed creating a never ending loop of evolution.

Together the two brothers shaped the first race of sentient beings to help them as The Dreamer had created the two brothers to help it. The Paragons, named to fit the ideas and hopes their makers had for them, were build a world to inhabit for themselves. The Paragon people named it Ath meaning rock in their tongue. Taeshalac and Buthalesh watched as the Paragons flourished and lived. Being creatures of equal parts light and shadow, they seemed to had developed a force unknown to their own two makers; free will. Some Paragons became dark and ruthless and destroyed, some vowed to rebuild what others had destroyed, but most of them seemed to balance and live the inbetween. It astounded the two brothers, who had hoped the creatures would turn to their respective wisdom.

But being beings devout of balance inside themselves creates its own problems. As they followed the purpose The Dreamer gave them, the two brothers drifted further and further apart. Judging and hating each other for not understanding the beauty and importance of their respective works. But as they were created this way, they never could.

As time passed Buthalesh, the shadow, forged a plan that would end up shaping the future of the void, The Great Expanse as it was now named by the Paragon people, forever on.

The Shadow worked through millenia on lulling The Dreamer deeper and deeper asleep with promises that light and shadow was enough to uphold the balance of The Great Expanse that he had created.

Alongside this Buthalesh had created a weapon, the Seed of Doubt, which was to help him turn the Paragons to his side, as he had watched doubt being the first step towards the shadows.

He had already been planting this seed in many of the Paragons, slowly warping their flesh and minds.

Reassured by his son of the future of The Great Expanse, The Dreamer seemed to fall into a dreamless slumber as which he had never experienced before. Without dreams, he never woke again.

When Taeschalac, the Light, saw what had happened to his father he broke, not understanding who was to give him purpose now. In this weakened state of mind, Buthalesh slew Taeshalac which with his dying breath realized the true plans of his brother. In a frame of time no one really can comprehend Taeshalac managed to save a handful of the Paragon people, shielding them with his body. The body of the great being of light created a barrier to ward of Buthalesh and his followers protecting the few remaining Paragons inside.

Buthalesh grew mad with rage and as he fell deeper into darkness he himself started to warp and twist into a being strange to what he once was. Hellbend on breaching the barrier his followers where always testing it for flaws, seeking to finally bring about the peace of total darkness in The Great Exspanse.

Only four of the Paragon people were saved by Taeshalac. They now began to order the little pocket of void inside the barrier, creating and destroying worlds as their makers before them. But they did it with a purpose. A purpose of freeing The Great Expanse of the Shadow and finally build The Dreamers true vision - a universe of balance and peace.