Before time, the Prism Eternal held all emotions, elements, and possible futures within one consciousness.

When it shattered, seven great facets became the deities now named by mortals. Their fragments seeded the world, but none retained the whole memory of what happened.

The Prism Eternal contained all possible worlds within a single consciousness.

When it shattered, its seven greatest facets became deities, while lesser splinters became matter, time, feeling, and unrealized possibilities. The void remains beyond creation: not evil, but profoundly indifferent. The gods shape the world from afar, and their attention is as rare as it is consequential.

The gods rarely answer prayer directly.

Their influence appears as coincidences, dreams, altered weather, or a sudden inability to ignore a choice. Temples function as quiet civic institutions: keeping records, tending the dead, marking boundaries, and sheltering those displaced by change. Clergy disagree openly about the Shattering and do not claim a single authorized interpretation.

At death, a soul becomes a shard of color and drifts beyond mortal sight.

The faithful say the shards gather around Suthra, who weighs no one, but keeps their last memories from dissolving. Some shards return as new lives; others remain distant stars. No priest can promise which fate awaits.

The pantheon’s oldest dispute is whether the Shattering was a sacrifice or an escape.

Varkesh insists that separation made existence possible; Oruq mourns the lost unity. Suthra preserves evidence neither can comfortably claim. The conflict between Varkesh and Oruq is contained by Ilyat’s measured laws, though Zsenn’s storms repeatedly undo their careful boundaries.

The faith has no supreme priesthood.

Seven traditions maintain separate sanctuaries, with local councils convening only when concerns overlap. A council’s decisions are advisory, and disagreement is considered an honest echo of the original Shattering. Lay custodians, rather than ordained authorities, usually oversee communal rites.

The Shattering of the Prism: creation emerged when a singular, all-containing consciousness broke into seven facets.

Difference makes the world possible, but no facet can restore the whole.

Distant and contemplative: divinity is immense, difficult to interpret, and rarely intimate.

The gods shape mortal life through echoes and consequences rather than direct intervention.

Varied: two lawful, two neutral, two chaotic, and one neutral-evil deity.

The Prism’s fragments retained incompatible impulses, and the faith does not claim they reconcile.