Before any form of existence, there was only an absolute void, pre-ontological, situated beyond all modal possibility.
This void was neither a space, nor a state, nor a chaos, but a total absence of properties, laws, distinctions, or conceptual frameworks. It could neither be named, nor conceived, nor thought, for all thought already presupposes existence.
Within this radical absence arose a fundamental meta-concept: Being.
Being was neither created nor caused, but asserted itself as the first absolute distinction, rendering all subsequent ontology possible. That which preceded it could only be qualified negatively as "non-being," without possessing the slightest ontological significance. Existence comes to be because Being is, not because it acts.
From Being then emerged the first conscious manifestations of existence: the Primordials.
If the concepts of number and name had existed at that moment, they would have been three: Eternal, Sky, and Abyss.
The Primordials were not localized entities, but transcendent ontological axes, existing beyond all dimension, all space, all time, and all causality. Their nature surpassed any cosmological or multiversal structure; they were not contained by existence, but defined its qualitative foundations.
By their mere manifestation, they established the first distinctions of Being.
Sky engendered a clear expanse of unspeakable immensity. This expanse was neither a physical space, nor a material dimension, nor a measurable plane, but a pure ontological quality, inaccessible to any inferior perception or law. It transcended all notions of finite or infinite dimensionality. He named it the Clear Sky, thereby introducing the very principle of structure and naming.
Eternal brought forth, at an ontological level inferior to the Clear Sky yet still beyond all spatiality and temporality, a boundless world devoid of matter. This domain transcended all dimensional conception and all physical reality. He named it: the World of the Eternals.
Abyss, for its part, did not engender a place.
Thus were born the first strata of existence.
The domain in which the three Primordials resided was called the World of the Primordials, an ontologically superior plane to the Clear Sky, itself qualitatively superior to the World of the Eternals.
Each of the Primordials infinitely surpassed the domains it had manifested, such that none of these planes could contain them, just as a three-dimensional (3D) structure cannot be contained within a two-dimensional (2D) surface.
The World of the Eternals, though infinite and transcending all dimension, nonetheless remained entirely empty. From this void, and through a process derived from the order instituted by Being and stabilized by the Primordials, new entities emerged: the Eternals.
The Eternals, though immensely superior to any material reality, remained ontologically inferior to the Primordials. They in turn engendered a new domain: the City of the Thaumaturges.
In order to give meaning and dynamism to this world, the Eternals created twelve entities issued directly from their will: the Thaumaturges.
The Thaumaturges inherited divine powers transcending all dimensional structure, yet remained bound to the ontological frameworks established by the Primordials.
No creator could be contained within the world it had engendered, each level of reality remaining qualitatively and ontologically inferior to its origin. For the Eternals, the thaumaturges and their underlying realities are narrative constructions, observable and comprehensible in their entirety.
The Thaumaturges, for their part, were the first to engender a reality structured by time, space, and causality.
They created the material world as well as multiverses, each governed by its own laws but all subordinated to the principles they had established.
This was the birth of the first fundamental dualities:
time and space, matter and immaterial, quantity and quality.
Observing that their universes remained empty, the Thaumaturges separated and shaped galaxies, stars, and celestial bodies, progressively structuring matter without ever exhausting the infinity of space.
In one of these universes (which would later be named the Prime Universe), they fashioned a material globe and a luminous star to illuminate it. Thus were born the Earth, the Sun, and local space-time.
They then created a clear expanse, inspired by the primordial Clear Sky but ontologically distinct and inferior: the sky as it is perceived by living beings. They shaped the waters, the atmosphere, vegetation, animals, and all terrestrial structures.
Finally, the Thaumaturges created man and woman, entrusting them with mastery over their environment and the gift of procreation in order to populate the Earth.
Thus was marked the history of creation.