In the oldest surviving creation song, the first people found six lights circling a sleeping stone.

Each light became a god only after the first mortal voice named it. Scholars disagree whether the song describes creation, discovery, or a pact between mortals and powers already waiting in the dark.

The world rests on a great, sleeping stone beneath the roots of the World-Tree.

Above it turn the heavens, a far-off court where the Six keep their separate stations. Nuala tends the boundary between breath and memory; Tarmo of Keld measures the turning seasons; and Varkesh watches the dark road beyond the stars. The gods shaped the world but do not rule it directly, and their signs reach mortals only through dreams, weather, and rare wonders.

The Six rarely appear in person.

Their temples are civic institutions, roadside shrines, family altars, and seasonal gathering places rather than a single unified church. Priests often serve practical needs—burials, calendars, mediation, food stores, and shelter—while disagreeing over doctrine. A community may honor several gods without considering this contradictory.

The dead cross the pale threshold called the Far Shore, where Nuala weighs the memories they carry and Heddan Vale records their names in a book no mortal can read.

Those who are ready pass into quiet ancestral halls; others return as nameless lights in the night sky. Varkesh is said to guard the road against souls who would escape their reckoning.

Heddan Vale insists every oath must be kept, while Qorim teaches that no promise can bind the living forever.

Nuala shelters the vulnerable from Varkesh’s hard verdicts, though she accepts that judgment has a place. Salla’s unpredictable changes unsettle Tarmo of Keld, whose seasons and laws depend on dependable cycles.

There is no supreme high priest.

Local temples are led by keepers, judges, hearth-priests, and seasonal wardens, with authority earned through service and local trust. A rare convocation of representatives from all six traditions is called the Far Council; it settles disputes over shared shrines and burial customs but has no power to command kingdoms.

The gods offer patterns, not answers.

Mortals must balance law with mercy, endurance with change, and freedom with responsibility.

Distant and contemplative.

The gods rarely answer prayers plainly, and their influence is most often felt through ritual, inherited institutions, strange coincidences, and the choices mortals make in their names.

The Six encompass lawful good, neutral good, lawful neutral, true neutral, chaotic neutral, and neutral evil.

Their doctrines disagree sharply, but no alignment is treated as proof of a worshipper’s virtue or guilt.