The Shattering

At first, there was Yah. Yah was everything, and everything was Yah. Yah was omnipotent and omniscient.

In the beginning, Yah created the universe. He devised existence and developed physics. He created worlds of beauty, populated by intelligent beings. Yah was happy, and the universe was perfect.

227 after the beginning, Yah began to fight Himself. The various powers of Yah developed individuality and began to disagree. The universe fell into pure chaos, causing a premature Heat Death. To possibly begin again, Yah shattered His essence into individual divine fragments, the gods.

The gods started anew and created Exarda, a world of two halves. Through compromise and deals, Exarda remained in equilibrium. The gods were - relatively - at peace.

The gods continue to make new worlds, seeing what works and what fails.