In the beginning, there was only the Void and the Empty Space. The Void was full of the Twilight, which seeks only to expand and consume. The Empty was everything else. The emptiness of the Multiverse that was not consumed by the Twilight. No one knows exactly how the Twilight first came into existence. Some say that it was always there. They say that it was born with the creation of reality.
After countless eons, the Split occurred. A part of the Twilight became separated from the Great Twilight Sea. This separation caused a mutation in the now-independent Twilight. This mutation caused the creation of the Zeniths.
The Zeniths are the beings that exist both in and outside of our reality. They have the ability to alter the flow of time, to create matter, to utterly destroy life. The Zeniths that were created in the Split were Law, Chaos, Good, Evil, and Balance. Law was opposed to Chaos. Good to Evil. And Balance, Balance was found between Law and Chaos, between Good and Evil. Together, through Balance, the Zeniths were opposed to the Void.
Together, Balance led the Zeniths to create The Bramble, a crazed weave of their interlocking powers that sealed the Void away from the rest of the Multiverse. This was one of the only things that Balance would ever convince the others to do with each other. So great was the animosity between the four. But before they all had went their separate ways so that they could wage war for the rest of eternity, Balance was able to convince the others on one last thing: the creation of the Arbiters. With all five of the Zeniths working together, they were made. The Arbiters existed outside of existence. They existed within the only part of reality that was outside of the Void or the Multiverse.
It was in this place, later to be known as the Hall of Judgement, that the Arbiters created the Current, the flow all magic and power that the Zeniths had. Each one of them had surrendered their power to the Arbiters. But why did they do this? Because of the Void. The Zeniths were terrified of the Twilight. Even after having sealed it away, they all knew that it took nearly all of their power to do so. There would be times again where they would need to have that power used and they needed to ensure that it would happen. Thus, the Arbiters were made. Existing outside of the Multiverse, they were able to create all of the rules of power and of magic in what seemed to be no time at all to the Zeniths. They then bestowed on each Zenith the knowledge of how their part of the Multiverse worked and the rules that governed it. From here, the Zeniths could do whatever they so wished. With the knowledge of the rules of the Multiverse, they could still do the things they had done before, but only if the Arbiters granted it to them, which they would do if the Zeniths followed the rules. Thus the Zeniths were able to battle each other without fear of the Twilight returning.
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