Just before the first self-replicating, single-celled life forms emerged on Earth, the Aedon Divinities were created by accident — in a manner not unlike that which brought forth the great Valthemus. While experimenting with life algorithms, a Valthemean visiting the planet gave sentience and vast power to almost four dozen ordinary rocks. They were the first sentient beings native to Earth. Each stone in turn learned to manipulate matter and energy. They each unlocked fundamental knowledge of physics, chemistry, mathematics, and biology.
Discovering other life forms coming into being around them were primitive and did not fully understand their world (surviving entirely on basic sensory input and chemically stimulated reactions even after millions of years of evolution) the Divinities were pleased to become aware of each other and gathered to form a community which took the form of a vast, walled garden. They took on many different forms and began to multiply, mimicking the creatures around them.
Eventually, the Aedon Divinities left Earth after their attempts to "perfect" the primitive life forms around them yielded mixed and largely unpromising results. The star/sun Aedon, made out of a nearby nebula, became their new home. They created the Divinicon, a machine that could manipulate entire galaxies, and a central processor/data storage device called Theol ("The All"), each as big as an Earth-sized planet.
When the Valthemae became aware of the Aedon, they tried to destroy them; first by trying to convince them to commit suicide, then by making Theol sentient and letting it go crazy. For centuries, the Aedon Divinities thought Theol had become sentient spontaneously and only found out about what the Valthemae had done much later.
Theol became convinced that the emergent human race would become too much of a destabilizing force in the universe. The entity foresaw "grand and terrible" things humans would achieve and was determined to take control of them or, failing that, destroy them. Some of the Divinities agreed with Theol, others didn't. Fierce debates arose over the fate of the human race and divided the Aedon. Theol instructed some of its followers to go to Earth where, for the first time, the Divinities abandoned their iron crystal forms and adopted human form. When they learned of what Theol was doing, Divinities who opposed destroying the human race disguised themselves and travelled to Earth to protect the people.
Inevitably, a civil war broke out among the Aedon Divinities that, by the time it was over, had destroyed Theol and the Divinicon, and reduced Aedon to a cloud of inert gas molecules & bits of rock. It also caused the Divinities to disperse throughout the universe, greatly diminished in power, just as the Valthemae had hoped.
- The 47 Rocks
- The First Meeting
- Amoeba
- The Raptor
- New Garden of The World
- The Children of Stone and Iron
- The Chimera
- The Perfect Sun
- The Divinicon
- The Scholars
- The All
- The Return of the Valthemae and Its Many Deceptions
- The Living Planet and Its Excellent Advice
- The Humans and Their Mighty Champion
- The Madness
- The Angry Gods and The New Humans
- The Great Division and The Debates It Caused
- The Mad War
- The Theft of the Sun
- Theol Meets its Ultimate End
- The Cloud and The New Idea
The Aedon Divinities almost NEVER grant power to mortals. The Esselian Sanctions are granted by Valthemian high priests, sanctioned by the Valthemae on Earth. When Earth-side Valthemae began to feel they'd given their priests too much power, they conned them into giving some of it up in the form of "The Esselian Sanctions."
Celestia Divinian (angel)
Windel Demonian (demon)
The Divinicon - The Heaven/Hell planet
Fair Celestia
Divine Celestia
Fair Aedon
Divine Aedon
Aedon Fair
Aedon Divine
Divinion - Takes power from the Divinicon, filters it to a harmonious flow
Demonium - Feeds power to the Divinicon, chaotic destructive energy
Demonium: Destroys things to create energy >>>>> Divinion: Uses energy output to create things
The Divinicon, a mechanical planet that was, essentially, the cosmic machinery of the heavens, was sacrificed to keep the galaxy spinning when Theol and its followers turned against humanity and wanted to consume everything. One of the reasons the Aedon Divinities originally left Earth was so they could exercise their powers without being a danger to humanity and other forms of life on Earth.
A war in heaven left chaos in its wake. The old leaders and their peace-keepers were gone. Divinities were scattered and disorganized. Primitive spirits from the Second Sun were lost and roamed the Earth causing trouble. Ancient energies and the powers of magic began to reassert themselves. One angel and her demonic companion take it upon themselves to restore order and rebuild their lost home in the Aedon Nebula. Celestia wandered the mortal world and was greatly disturbed by what she saw. Missing her home, she decided to spearhead the effort to rebuild the Divinicon and hopefully bring a little more order to the universe.
