Dewa: The Battle Begins

The beginning

In the beginning; the three Gods lived in harmony. The gods of action, of balance and of growth were content for a while until they grew bored of their own company. Hence; it was agreed upon between the gods to create their own companions and entertainment.

Thus, Terra was formed – a small ball of land and water where life began to develop. The gods turned themselves into humanoids and each cultivated their own section of Terra; the creatures of the red, blue and green respectively. For a while; there was peace and harmony between the lifeforms. The greens content to stay on the 'top' of Terra divided from the reds on the 'bottom' by the pacifistic blues who ruled the ocean – a line in the middle of the planet.

However, peace did not last long – as the reds grew jealous of the greens on top. The greens with their air of superiority and fast growing villages and expansions did nothing to quell this jealousy. Instead; they further provoked the reds by whispering rumours and remarks of how the red were savages with their primitive hunting techniques and huts.

The gods; busy entertaining themselves amongst their people either turned a blind eye or were blissfully ignorant to the tensions between their civilizations. So different were the god's ideals; that they were bound to clash. The gods themselves had the maturity and knowledge to not fight amongst themselves; yet their people who had lived for a mere fraction of their life compared to the  gods had no such experience.

And so, the reds began a secret treacherous journey across the oceans of the blue where they began a crusade spanning years to conquer the land of the green. When the gods found out that their people were fighting over whose god was better; they were distraught and broke into arguments amongst themselves.

Seeking solutions; the god of balance attempted to cut off the warring sides by shaping the ocean around the affected areas. Unfortunately; war ravaged the land and battles consumed Terra as battles occurred throughout the lands and pools of water were crossed or damned up. The creatures of the blue did not want to get involved with either side, but by trying to stop the fighting – they would anger the reds and by not helping the greens they were seen with disdain from both sides.

Hence, the gods were stuck in disbelief, gobsmacked by the mess of which they had helped create. The instillation of their beliefs without teachings of acceptance and love for others had caused such great conflict within Terra and the bodies piled up high.

Thus, the goddesses of darkness and light were born from the graves of the reds greens and blues. Their corpses mingled together; and with it – the powers vested in them through the gods themselves. Such destruction and chaos caused a new faction to rise up from the dead. These creatures were the minions of the goddess of darkness. These creatures were bloodthirsty and easily aroused by the conflict from which they were born. They rampaged across the lands; a new plague to destroy Terra, for the goddess of darkness sought to make all of Terra hers.

However, after the dead rose from their graves – there was a strange occurrence. The power required to create such darkness used up everything and left almost nothing behind. Yet from the ashes of the risen dead came the blinding creatures of the light. Led by the newly born goddess of light herself; they aimed to cleanse Terra once and for all and would consume all in their path. They aimed to purge life from the world and start afresh. The goddess of light – so unhappy was she that her sibling, the goddess of darkness had taken everything and given her nothing in her birth, had a personal vendetta against the goddess of darkness.

It is unsurprising then that from the jealousy and rage and chaotic nature of the world; yet another god was born. The god of change; who lead a new purple faction born into this world from all the jealousy and hatred. This prompted the original three gods to focus and put a stop to this all. The god of balance began cleansing the fighting masses with floods of water; creating vast expanses now known as the four oceans of Terra. He targeted the forces of darkness and light equally; trying to wipe out the new goddesses before they could become more powerful like their elders.

That, was when the gods of growth and action hatched a plan to stop the creation of any new gods. They returned to their original forms and would themselves, create one last god to end the creation of gods once and for all. Using their best efforts; they took pieces of themselves to put together the beautiful crowned goddess of beauty whilst the whole of Terra were too distracted by the chaos and constant floods to notice their absence.

With no faction that belonged to her; she was not as powerful as any of the other gods – but that alone was also her greatest strength. For when the citizens of Terra saw her image as she descended from the heavens; they were lovestruck and in some cases – powerstruck as they yearned for the new goddess to join their side.

Thus, they all changed their motives to fight for the crowned goddess. However; such violence caused immense distress for the goddess and she broke down in tears. Sobbing for the lives that had been lost; she propositioned that she would serve the people if they would stop fighting.

Such was her beauty; that the war-crazed fiends responded to her pleas, and many areas found peace and harmony as they sought the guidance of the goddess of beauty together. The expansion of the undead and creatures of the light that soon followed were slowed; and the newly risen god of change began to lose his followers too, as did the gods of the red, blue and greens.

There was however, still war and battles across the planet as fanatical supporters still warred on. But the conversion of so many followers had weakened all but the gods who were there in the beginning. Thus; the gods were able to locate and banish the other gods from their creation. With them too; they took their followers and battles onto new planets.

Hence; the gods created a planet for each god and their own followers in the hope that none would cause further mischief or trouble. Leaving Terra to the goddess of beauty; they each went their separate ways to new planets – having learned that by being together; they would only bring about conflict especially due to their differing beliefs and ideals.

This, is where the story ends. The goddess of beauty ruled over the survivors peacefully and since she had no true followers from the start; she would be powerless to cause any trouble for the other gods. However; it is said that even now – the god of change is trying to find ways of reaching the other worlds for he feels anger and bitterness at the fact that he had been banished so soon after his birth and he feeds off the conflict, jealousy and anger between the gods.

The boy paused... " and that, is a brief history of our world; Terra. Henceforth; we have always worshipped the goddess of beauty Elena, for bringing peace to our land, and we heed the warnings and mistakes of our ancestors - to try and avoid fighting amongst ourselves as much as possible to prevent the rise of another evil power to fill this world."

There was silence in the auditorium. The students all stared intently at him; entranced by the story. Then the sound of clapping began as a young man walked onto the stage from the left; causing the rest of the students to descend into raucous applause.

"yes, yes - a most marvellous performance!" he clasped the boy's shoulder with his hands and smiled to the other students, "Over the years, countless theories as to the creation of our world have been proposed - yet the Theory of the three gods has been prevalent since the dawn of time. This theory was also proposed as a method of explaining the 7 fundamental types of magic that govern our world and has held up to criticisms for hundreds of years. It is true that some details were omitted in this story and there are multiple variants of this theory, but nonetheless a spectacular performance!"

As the boy scuttled back down to find his seat in the auditorium, the next student - a girl wearing a beautiful white floral dress walked elegantly onto the stage. She smirked as she passed the boy and walked confidently up to the pedestal.

"Today; I propose to you a new theory! Recent men of science have theorised that instead; our whole world was created by an explosion, many millions of years ago..."

The auditorium burst out with laughter as the teacher attempted to calm them down.