The Natural Order

The **Natural Order** or what is usually called the **Rules** or **The Balance**, is a powerful force, the collection of almighty laws that rules Creation. It is impartial and it is not known how long it has existed, since it was one of the first, if not the first thing created by God. The oldest form of Order concerns the required existence of Darkness and Light, Good and Evil, and Time. Some of the disturbances of the Natural Order do not pose many significant dangers to existence as a whole, yet they are strongly discouraged. It is said that when disturbances to the Natural Order end, a reset occurs and a new balance is established.

## Established Laws

* **Mandatory Existence of Time** - Time must exist for time itself to exist and remain stable. That is, if Time dies, time gradually becomes unstable, for example, past, present, and future blend together, alternate timelines merge, the speed of time speeds up and slows down, until finally time collapses and ceases to exist, bringing all existence to a complete collapse. The only way to stop this is to resurrect Time or kill a Chronist, as the first Chronist to die after Time will take his place, inheriting his power and knowledge.
	+ **Time Travel** - Time Travel itself is not prohibited, however, if any changes caused by the travel had a significant impact on history, then a temporal paradox would occur where the timeline would self-correct to adapt to the changes. These changes can lead to the death of countless alternative realities, since the events that generate these realities can be erased or completely rewritten, generating a temporal paradox that would erase this reality from existence.
* **Mandatory Existence of Good and Evil** - It is mandatory that there are incarnations of Good and Evil for these concepts to exist. If an incarnation of Evil dies, evil will be eradicated from existence, if an incarnation of Good dies, good will be eradicated from existence.
* **Mandatory Existence of Death** - There must be an Death for the concepts of death, afterlife, rebirth, and resurrection to exist. If an incarnation of Death dies, death itself will cease to exist, no living being will ever die, and all the dead will be brought back to life. If an incarnation of Death dies, the next Reaper to die takes its place, inheriting its power and knowledge.
	+ **Early, Delayed or Reversed Death** - All living beings have the time of death set as soon as they are born, if someone dies before or after the time, or then resurrects, someone else will die in place, and depending on who has to die in place, there may be a ripple effect of constant early or late deaths that will mess up the flow of life and death. The only way to reverse this is to correct the original derangement, and all consequences of the derangement will be reversed, as if they never happened.
* **Rebirth Cycle** - All living beings with a soul, except the supernatural ones, are subject into a rebirth cycle. When they die, their souls leaves the body and they're escorted by the Reapers to the afterlife, but the Rebirth Cycle applies different to every kind of being.
	1. Animals and other non-sentient living beings just reincarnate immediately.
	2. Sentient non-divine beings are judged in the afterlife by the respective god/goddess that fits their belief system. If they were good, they will go to Heaven and rest for an finite but unknown amount of time, and then, they will reincarnate. If they were good but with some significant flaws they will pass through a purification process in Purgatory before going to their rest in Heaven. If they were bad, they will go to Hell and pay for their sins for a finite but unknown amount of time, and then, they will reincarnate.
	3. Monsters with an Alpha, like Vampires and etc, they pass through the same process, but they can only reincarnate as one of their own species.
	4. Monsters without an Alpha, like Gorgons, will just have their bodies re-formed and will resurrect.
	5. Sentient non-divine beings that in their incarnation were excessively good or evil will no longer reincarnate after their death. The good ones will rest in Heaven for eternity, and the evil ones will pay for their sins in the deepest layer of Hell for eternity.
* **Divinity** - It is forbidden for sentient non-divine beings to try to acquire Divinity and become Gods, and whoever tries will eventually end up failing no matter what. The exception to this law are beings who were born with the latent potential for Divinity but have not yet awakened it, since in this case, they count as divine beings, even though they do not have access to their divine powers.
* **Mandatory Existence of Light and Darkness** - It is mandatory that there are incarnations of Light and Dark for these concepts to exist. If the incarnation of Light dies, Darkness will dominate and drag existence to the state of absolute nothingness, if the incarnation of Darkness dies, Light will dominate and convert existence to a state of pure energy with no darkness whatsoever.
* **Mandatory Existence of Creation and Destruction** - It is mandatory that there are incarnations of Creation and Destruction for these concepts to exist. If the incarnation of Creation dies, Destruction will dominate and drag existence to the state of absolute nothingness, if the incarnation of Destruction dies, destruction will cease to exist and everything will continue to be wildly created until it overloads the structure of reality and makes it collapse.
* **Mandatory Existence of Justice and Order** - It is mandatory that an incarnation of Justice and Order exist for justice and order itself to exist. If the incarnation of Justice and Order dies, Injustice and Chaos will reign over all existence. The only way to stop this is to resurrect the incarnation or else kill a Judge, as the first Judge to die after the incarnation will take his place, inheriting his power and knowledge.
* **Mandatory Balance between Humans, Monsters and Supernatural Beings** - The entire population of humans, monsters and supernatural beings must remain perfectly balanced, with no predominance of any of them, and they cannot extinguish one another, because if this is the case, the species itself will cease to exist.
	+ **Mandatory Existence of Alphas** - All monster species need an Alpha, that is, a primordial individual who is the progenitor of all others of the species. If the Alpha dies, the species will lose the ability to generate more individuals (either by transmutation or reproduction) and will eventually cease to exist. If the Alpha returns, all deaths that occurred in the interval between the Alpha's death and resurrection will be reversed. The only exceptions to this law are the supernatural, like Gods and Angels, and when more than one individual is born at the same time, for example, the Gorgons, who do not have an Alpha since Stheno, Euryale and Medusa were born at the same time, then none of them is the Alpha of their species.
* **Mandatory Balance between Good, Order, Justice and Evil, Chaos and Injustice** - It is mandatory that there is a balance between the domains of Good, Order and Justice with the domains of Evil, Chaos and Injustice in living beings, having incarnations of these concepts preferably. If the incarnation of these concepts dies, the balance will tip to the other side. Each of the domains can also have entire races of beings dedicated to maintaining their side of the scale, such as angels on the Good side and demons on the Evil side.