📜 Grimoire of the Gods: The Weaving of Fate
Core Lore
The Creation Myth – The Weaving of Existence
The Void That Was
Before time was counted, before the space between stars was formed, there was only the Unshaped Void—an abyss of pure, boundless potential. In this silence, where light and shadow held no meaning, whispered the echoes of all unformed realities.
From the heart of this emptiness, the First Weaver awoke. A being of unknowable purpose, it was neither a force of nature nor a will with form, but simply existence becoming aware. Some tales claim it was the last seed of a cosmos that existed before the Void itself.
The First Weaver did not speak, nor did it dream. It simply began to spin. From strands of pure, incandescent existence, it wove the Tapestry of Creation, the very fabric upon which all reality would take shape.
The Birth of the Weavers
As the First Weaver spun, lesser beings emerged—the Weavers. These were powerful aspects of the First Weaver's will, each granted the ability to shape a specific part of the nascent world. They wove the suns and the seas, the forces of magic, the threads of fate, and the spark of life itself.
While each served the growing design, their power was never equal. The most powerful among them were the Celestial Lords, who wove order, destiny, and light, and the Infernal Overlords, who wove chaos, passion, and ambition.
Yet, a dark undercurrent arose: the Forsaken Weavers. They worked in secret, rejecting the blueprints of both light and darkness, weaving forbidden, disruptive threads into the hidden layers of the Tapestry.
The First Schism – The Breaking of the Loom
For an Age, the Weavers worked in harmony, and the Tapestry expanded into a beautiful, infinite cosmos. But as creation solidified, some Weavers saw its flaws: existence that was too rigid, a fate that was too strict, and power that was too limited.
The rebellion began when one of the most powerful, known now only as The Betrayer, did the unthinkable: it cut the first thread of defiance. The Betrayer sought to unmake the parts of the Tapestry it deemed imperfect and rewrite reality in its own, absolute vision.
The First Weaver remained silent and did not intervene.
Discord quickly followed. At first, the Celestial Lords and Infernal Overlords united against The Betrayer, but their shared purpose fractured. The Celestials demanded the preservation of the original design, while the Infernals saw a chaotic opportunity to seize dominion.
Thus began The Weavers' War—a cosmic conflict that violently tore existence into the three eternal realms: Celestial, Infernal, and Mortal.
The Fall of the First Weaver
The true end of the war is shrouded in the deepest mystery, but its ultimate consequence is universally known: the First Weaver vanished.
Some believe the sheer magnitude of the conflict tore Their existence apart. Others whisper They withdrew, unable to bear the sight of their shattered creation. The most dangerous rumor claims the Forsaken Weavers found a way to unmake their own creator, secretly reshaping the fundamental laws of the cosmos.
With the First Weaver gone, the Tapestry was eternally damaged, and the surviving Weavers lost the ability to reshape reality at will. The Celestial Lords and Infernal Overlords became rulers of fixed realms.
The Mortal World, once a mere strand in the grand design, became the focal point—a place where fate was no longer absolute, and free will could violently alter the course of history.
The era of mortals had begun.
The Weavers' War (The Divine Schism)
The war that shattered creation and divided the cosmos forever.
1. The Seeds of Rebellion
The initial harmony of the Weavers was a fragile thing. Though the Celestial Weavers established order and the Infernal Weavers forged ambition, a rising tide of dissent among the Forsaken Weavers questioned the very nature of creation. They saw the First Weaver's order as a cosmic prison, arguing that true creation demanded an element of destruction and that mortals should not be bound by a dictated destiny.
Whispers of defiance spread. Weavers abandoned their duties or wielded their powers in forbidden ways. When the First Weaver vanished—a monumental event that fractured the Weavers' collective consciousness—the remaining entities immediately turned on one another. This was the Divine Schism.
2. Heaven and Hell Divide
In the absence of their creator, the Weavers solidified into three core factions:
* The Celestial Weavers: Dedicated to upholding the First Weaver's original design. They sought absolute balance and order, believing preservation was paramount.
* The Infernal Weavers: Driven by ambition and dominion. They saw the conflict as a chance to become the new, absolute rulers, shaping existence purely to their will.
* The Forsaken Weavers: Rejecting both the tyranny of order and the endless struggle for power, they sought absolute freedom and the destruction of all existing cosmic laws.
Debates became skirmishes, and skirmishes exploded into a War of Cosmic Scale. The Celestial Lords unleashed blinding divine light, while the Infernal Overlords tore reality apart with destructive ambition. Entire realms were shattered, stars were extinguished, and the very fabric of space and time fractured.
3. Mortal Souls: The New Power Source
As the war raged on, the Weavers made a critical, irreversible mistake: they pulled mortals into the conflict.
The Weavers realized that mortal souls held a potential they could not comprehend. They were flexible, passionate, and driven by free will—qualities the rigidly defined Weavers lacked.
* Celestials gifted power to prophets, saints, and champions to fight their war.
* Infernals offered forbidden knowledge and dark power to warlords, sorcerers, and tyrants.
* Forsaken whispered revolutionary secrets to those who defied both gods and demons.
In doing so, the Weavers effectively chained themselves to the Mortal Realm. Their power could no longer directly reshape existence; it had to be channeled through their mortal followers. The battlefield of the divine now stretched directly across the Mortal World, and mortals, now gifted or cursed, began to shape history on their own terms.
4. The Final Cataclysm (The Sundering)
The war culminated in a final, devastating act. A nameless Weaver—whose existence was violently scrubbed from all history—unleashed a forbidden power that did not merely destroy, but shattered the very fabric of reality.
* The Celestial and Infernal realms were violently and permanently torn apart, forever sealed from merging.
* The Forsaken were cast into exile, their creations and names ritually erased from the cosmic record.
* The surviving Weavers, horrified by the destruction, sealed themselves away, leaving only their most powerful lieutenants—the Celestial Lords and Infernal Overlords—to oversee the wreckage.
The Weavers were gone. The cosmos was broken. And in their place, the mortals inherited the remnants of a shattered war.
5. The Aftermath – The Unending Conflict
The Weavers have vanished, but their war is eternal. The cosmic conflict continues, fought through the hands of mortals:
* Celestial Lords enforce divine order through their mortal empires.
* Infernal Overlords spread chaos and empower those who crave total dominance.
* The Forsaken's Legacy remains hidden—secret knowledge and forgotten relics awaiting discovery by mortals bold enough to defy both heaven and hell.
This is the Age of Mortals—the inheritors of a war they did not begin, now with the power to truly decide its end.
II. The Three Realms & Their Laws
When the Divine Schism ended, existence was ripped into three distinct planes. They are locked in a delicate, hostile balance, with only rare individuals or forbidden artifacts capable of traversing the barriers between them.
The Celestial Realm – The Empire of Divine Order
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Known As | The Heavens, The Luminous Expanse, The Throne of Light |
| Nature | The domain of absolute order, structure, and enlightenment. A realm of radiant cities, floating citadels, and endless golden skies, ruled by law. |
| Rulers | The Celestial Lords—divine emperors who enforce the remnants of the First Weaver's original design. |
| Laws | Divine Authority: Only the "worthy" wield power; chaos cannot sustain itself. Eternal Light: Shadows, lies, and deception weaken and fail. Ascension: Mortals may transcend their flesh and become eternal, but only by strict decree. |
| Inhabitants | Celestial Lords, The Radiant Legions (ascended warriors), and The Awakened (devoted mortals). |
2. The Infernal Realm – The Dominion of Chaos & Power
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Known As | The Abyss, The Blackened Thrones, The Endless Maw |
| Nature | The domain of raw ambition, power, and destruction. A place of burning skies, obsidian fortresses, and violently shifting landscapes. Authority is taken, never granted. |
| Rulers | The Infernal Overlords—powerful warlords who constantly vie for ultimate dominance over their own treacherous domains. |
| Laws | The Law of Strength: The strong rise, the weak are consumed. Might makes the only right. The Law of Hunger: Power is never free; every gain demands a steep, often terrible, cost. The Unchained Will: No being is bound by destiny; all may rise or fall by sheer force of will. |
| Inhabitants | Infernal Overlords, The Forsworn Armies (assassins, dark champions), and The Damned & Cursed (failed mortals in servitude). |
3. The Mortal Realm – The Fractured Battleground
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Known As | The Middle Plane, The Realm of Dust, The Unshackled World |
| Nature | The only plane where Celestial and Infernal forces still clash, but cannot rule directly. A world of vast kingdoms, forgotten ruins, and hidden power. It is an active battlefield without a master. |
| Rulers | Kings, Emperors, and Warlords—mortals who claim rule through divine patronage or their own iron will. |
| Laws | The Law of Balance: No single cosmic force can achieve total dominance. The Law of Influence: Divine beings must channel their power through mortal vessels and relics. The Unwritten Fate: The destiny of the realm is undecided, placing ultimate power in mortal hands. |
| Inhabitants | Rulers and mortals, The Gifted & The Touched (wielders of divine power), and The Unshackled (those who reject both Celestial and Infernal rule). |
III. The Age of Mortals
The Gods' Withdrawal and the Unleashing of Power
The Weavers' War created a vacuum of power. When the Celestial and Infernal beings sealed themselves away, the Mortal Realm was no longer a pawn—it was a world suddenly unburdened by predestined fate.
This Age was not peaceful; it was explosive. The absence of direct divine command unleashed an era of ferocious ambition. Warlords, prophets, and visionary sorcerers seized the power left behind, carving out mighty dominions and establishing empires that spanned continents.
The world became powerful. Lost Weavers' secrets manifested as artifacts capable of bending reality. Kingdoms forged alliances with arch-angels or struck dark bargains with overlords. The very geography of the Mortal Realm still bears the scars of the divine war, with rifts of raw magic and titanic ruins serving as potent sources of power for those bold enough to claim them. Mortals had not just inherited a battlefield—they had inherited the tools of the gods.
The war between the realms is now fought by mortals—and their choices will determine the ultimate, final shape of the cosmos.