In the endless void before time began, there existed three siblings, who had always been and who would always be. The two twin brothers, Uvash (One Who Brings Order) and Dagan (Bringer of Disorder), constantly challenged each other to see who was the strongest and, thus, the most deserving to lead the three. As both were evenly matched, neither could best the other, and their contests went on for a eternity. The younger sister, Enae (Eternal Weaver), watched her brothers with bemusement, for she knew that only together could her brothers could they truly achieve power. Enae eventually grew bored with the endless contests and began pondering the emptiness around her. Taking small bits of essence from her brothers, she combined them and formed beings of power. Into each she breathed divine life, giving them a small part of her own essence. Thus, she created the Ashav’an, the First Children. Enae then crafted out of order and chaos the Worlds, setting them afloat in the nothingness surrounding her. The Ashav’an helped her shape the Worlds, passing on the spark of life to those Worlds that were their favorites.
Uvash and Dagan, seeing Enae’s creations, grew jealous, and each tried to craft their own offspring, but their creations were flawed. The children of Uvash were beings of stasis and unchanging and could not survive. Dagan’s offspring were amorphous and could not hold their shape and thus did also perish. Though each brother was powerful, on their own, neither could craft as Enae could, for she alone knew how to combine the essence of each brother in balance and pass on the spark of life. The Worlds they crafted fared only slightly better. Uvash’s realm, Ish-gorum, was one of absolute order and perpetuity, while Dagan crafted Tain-gorval, a World of infinite chaos and mutation. Thus was born the realms of Order and Chaos.
Enraged by his failings, Uvash demanded he be given the Worlds and the Ashav’an, as gifts and servants, so that they might worship him as they do Enae, because he was the most worthy. When Enae refused, he tried to destroy her creations. The Ancient Laws, by which all three are bound, would not allow him to harm those she had made of her own life, the Ashav’an. Where the Ashav’an had breathed their divine breath, though, he found he was also unable to do harm. In a rage, he destroyed those worlds that were yet empty, leaving only a handful of Enae’s worlds behind.
Dagan, seeing that the Ashav’an and their creations could not be harmed, began to whisper to some of them, attempting to turn them to him, so that they would be his and share the secrets taught to them by Enae. He was rebuffed by most of her children, but the seed of Corruption was planted within a handful of Enae’s Ashav’an.
Athough she was the younger and less powerful of the three, Enae had honed her power through the creation of the Ashav’an and the Worlds and was more skilled than her brothers. With her children, she tricked her brothers, forcing each into his own realm, and she sealed them within, Within their realms, they lay in an eternal slumber, and she could draw upon their essence, but they could not touch her creations. She then set herself as guardian of their prisons. She told the Ashav’an to draw upon her essence, as she draws upon that of her siblings, and continue the Creation. She gave to the Ashav’an the power to Create, but bound them by the Ancient Laws and limited how they could interact with their creations, ensuring they could never destroy the Worlds nor all life on them. For herself, she sat in eternal vigilance, keeping the brothers imprisoned and acting as a conduit for all creation.
In time, Uvash and Dagan came to embody their realms, one of order and one of chaos, no longer entities separate from the World within which each was imprisoned. Within their respective realms, the will of Uvash and Dagan was supreme, making each World a place of its maker’s reality. Their dreams bent their realms further towards their essence, allowing them to create beings that manifested each brother’s will. From Uvash, Ish-gorum was filled with beings of absolute law, who desired only to bring unchanging order to existence. Within Tain-gorval, Dagan’s will took form as Tai’Shalvar, the Corrupting Wind, and crafted beings of utter chaos. These abominations only existed to manipulate and twist creation. Only the power of Enae held both realms in check.
For countless time, the Ashav’an created harmoniously, crafting countless worlds and filling them with life. But Dagan’s corruption took root within some and they began to see themselves as apart from their brethren and above them. They looked upon the Worlds with malice, desiring to twist them into dark replicas, ever-changing realms of madness. Although endlessly sleeping, Dagan’s will was able to whisper to those he had tainted, driving them further into insanity and Corruption. They drifted further from their brothers and sisters, crafting dark Worlds, introducing foul magics, and building armies filled with twisted creatures.
In time, the corrupted Ashav’an, taking the name Dolvra’than (Those Who Shall Rule) rebelled against their brethren, unleashing their armies upon the Worlds and making war against all Creation. The war raged endlessly. In a final strike to destroy the Ashav’an, the Dolvra’than attacked the prison around Tain-gorval, cracking its walls and allowing all manner of fell beasts, peoples, and magicks to be unleashed upon the Worlds. The Dolvra’than wielded dark essence never before seen by the Ashav’an, a gift from Dagan. Though they could not slay the Ashav’an, the dark essence allowed them to put their brethren into an endless sleep and, for a time, it seemed as though the Dolvra’than would prevail.
Akru, mighty among the Ashav’an, sensed the Dolvra’than were close to opening Tain-gorval and unleashing the madness contained within, and woke from his slumber. Calling upon the essence of all Creation, he pushed many of the Dolvra’than into Tain-gorval and sealed it as well as he could, burning himself to ash in the process. Without the power of the Dolvra’than to contain them, the Ashav’an awoke.
The remaining Ashav’an, exhausted from eons of war and lamenting the death of their brethren and the sacrifice of Akru, set themselves as watchers of Tain-gorval and Ish-gorum, awaiting the day when each would no longer contain Uvash and Dagan and Enae would return for the battle that would decide the fate of all creation.