The 5th Universe

According to the Soulsung Records as written by the first Priest of Yumee who lived upon the world Telmet in the first years of the universe.

"*First coming into being with the remains of the colliding cosmic forces that ended the incarnation of the 4th Universe cascading out into the new existence forming around her, the sole survivor created the Material Plane from the remains of her old reality, which was left as an underlying blueprint and deposited her own mortality there. Afterwards she was surprised to find three other beings coming into existence outside of the mortal shell. One was a being of pure life energy, an entire plane forming from her conception. The other two were her twin opposites, beings of pure death energy, from their conception yet another plane was born but the new beings soon retreated into these darker depths to wait... Viewing these fledgling deities being born made the Survivor consider herself. She named herself Yumee, and when she uttered her name the sound carried across existence.*

*Soon after she cast aside her own morality and sense of order, as well as their opposites, pandemonium and immorality. Two new beings were formed from this act, Janaria who bathed the cosmos in a noble light, and her dark counterpart, a powerful Demon King whose name has been long forgotten. They wandered through the cosmos, and soon found the nascent Material Plane. They began to battle over dominion of the mortal universe, but where soon banished to the outside of the newly crafted Inner Planes. Borders built of mortal materials, fire, water, earth and air prevented the two twins from trespassing there. The two gods, their power ever-increasing resumed their war against one another, while demi-planes were created, withered and died around them. Tiring of the war, and wishing for peace Yumee crafted the Outer Planes, two dimensions that contained the shining light of morality and the consuming darkness of depravity. She then left for untold millennia and finally returned, crafting the Outer Sphere as a potent ward to contain all things.*

*Wandering around her creation, she stumbled upon the place where she first awoke, and found a spiraling nexus of chaotic creation, plagued by the rules of reality etching themselves into the fabric of existence. Bending these conflicting forces together, the elder goddess called the Spire into being. Axis and the Maelstrom became interwoven into the other planes of existence, continually expanding their grasps through out the cosmos.*

   *It is said that around this time, the first mortal soul that had begun to travel the great beyond after dying drew near the border of the Material Plane, but not one, three Gods of Death appeared to await it. As it arrived for their collection, the three began to argue over who should be in charge of it. And soon Yumee arrived after sensing the quarrel. Seeing the situation, the elder goddess asked each one he was going to do with the soul. The youngest gleefully declared he wished to experiment with it, and then found himself imprisoned deep within the infinite Negative Energy Plane, caged by the freshly created Plane of Shadow. The second brother responded more carefully, and told her that he sought to see what it was, but the elder goddess was too wise to be fooled and saw his hunger, reminding her of an older evil. She banished him to the Lower Planes, where he was greeted by a powerful Demonic Queen. The oldest brother, who had long awaited this, told the goddess that he simply wished to guide the souls to their proper place, and with that statement, the Goddess wove the Astral Plane together and granted him the dominion to travel the Border Planes as needed.*

*Curious to see where the soul had come from, she gazed into her first creation. There she found it surrounded by a sea of dreams generated by the very mortals souls that traveled to its edges, trapped within the wall that was the Elemental Planes. This was the task that eldest brother of the trio had begun to undertake, ferrying the souls of the mortals to their judgement place at the Spire, its expansive based known as the Plane of Limbo, where good, evil, law and chaos all met, as well as where the judgement to begin the next step of the journey began.*

*Over time, many planes of existence came into being, and both the Higher and Lower realms divided themselves. Elysium, Nirvana and Heaven stood in an ever feuding war against Hell, Abaddon and the Abyss. Axis recorded the laws of creation and the cosmos, and the Maelstrom continued to gnaw at the edges of everything it touched. Again surveying the vast cosmos, and the Material Plane, Yumee discovered that three unchecked and powerful forces that threatened her plans; Time, Knowledge and Magic.*

*One of the demi-planes that had existed since before the 5th Rebirth was the Temporal Alemorum, and it was here Yumee traveled to imbibe some of the waters and soon after Myriad sprung to existence, a being that sought to regulate the flow of time into a single stream. Next she sought to have someone govern the knowledge of the cosmos, and so travelled to Axis, and after eons absorbing its' quintessence, birthed Anwai. Finally, the elder goddess swept across the cosmos and gathered bits of everything, and soon from within her self came Mishai, a powerful being of magic.*"

Eons later, these forces took notice of 81 worlds that held the greatest of mortal potential. The greatest of these worlds that drew their attention was one that would come to be known as Stigguard. Millenia went by as mortals learned of magic and the beings beyond their own realm, and soon they begun to wield the fantastical powers generated by the cosmos. Soon however, it would prove to be that worlds' undoing as it became the birth place of the two greatest evils the mortal universe had ever known; The Collective, and the re-entry of the Void into the Material Plane. Over time, other worlds such as Fallenro, Telmari, Kessl, Ugrad and Aeturnus, along with several more began to show the same level of promise as Stigguard once had.

All number are in equivalent energy in terms of motes of mana.

* 174,958,250,398,250,417,496 Essence
* 33,591,984,076,464,080,159,232 Mana
* 302,327,856,688,176,721,433,088 Ethos