The Primals shaped the first world and, seeing it too raw and wide for direct rule, fashioned eight Elder Gods to govern its essential powers. These deities were not born as siblings in the human sense, but as appointed stewards bound by shared purpose. In the oldest hymns, they are said to dwell beyond the reachable sky, watching over creation from a distance so vast that mortals mistake their silence for indifference.

At the dawn of matter, the Primals shaped the first world and then withdrew into unimaginable distance. Before leaving, they made eight Elder Gods as stewards: each one tied to a fundamental force or living principle. The cosmos is not ruled by constant divine intervention but by delegated guardianship; the Elder Gods govern through subtle law, sacred cycles, and the hidden agreements between their domains. They are often perceived as astronomically far away, seated in a court beyond the visible heavens, watching mortal history as one might watch lanterns on a shoreline from across a dark sea.

The faith is a distant, hierarchical court-religion with local cults and regional priesthoods. At the summit are the High Scribes of the Eightfold Distance, who preserve doctrine and calendars but do not micromanage worship. Beneath them, each deity has a priestly order, and temples often form as paired or triple shrines based on local need—life and death, storm and light, stone and growth, water and shadow, metal and wilds. Sacred law emphasizes balance, stewardship, and reverence for cycles rather than strict commandments.

The religion is formal, decentralized, and geographically varied. Temples are often distant from one another, with each shrine specializing in one deity while still acknowledging the full eightfold court. Clerics and paladins swear to uphold the balance of the Elder Gods rather than exclusive dogma. Folk religion is common: farmers honor the Goddess of Stone and Plants, sailors keep faith with the Goddess of Water and Darkness and the God of Wind and Lightning, while artisans invoke the God of Metal and Gems and the God of Fire and Light. Funerary traditions are especially respected, and even the most remote villages maintain a small place for the God of Death. All revere the Goddess of Life for she oversees all births and she passes on to the God of Death the truth of one's life lived for the God of Deaths judgment.

The faithful are not judged by a court that knows their names; instead, their essences drift into the Quiet Reaches, a vast and distant celestial archipelago beyond the stars. There they are sorted by resonance: determined when they die based on the observations of the Goddess of Life and Judged by the God of Death who shall shepherd them to the place their soul belongs. They remain there until they either choose rebirth or they choose to remain eternally, there are conditions for rebirth especially for those who lived a life of murder, stealing, greed, and other such things.