Conflicts occur when two or greater factions–may it be but squabbling men or warring kingdoms-desire contradictory outcomes. The resulting clash produces devastation commensurate to several factors, including but not limited to the relative sizes of the parties involved, believed information, whether true or false, and finally, and most importantly of all, will. Combined, these three factors are what had largely driven the Old Hegemons to complete and utter destruction. Their conflicts, cataclysmic in scale, collapsed society as they knew it.

  The Celestials, displeased from the needless bloodshed, acted of seeming altruism- however, I personally hold that it was in reaction to the substantial reduction in prayer base from the collapsed church institutions and widespread death- and intervened in mortal affairs. They sent their children to act as guides and leaders to the mortals, bringing some semblance of the former prosperity witnessed before the fall.

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  As these Descendants’ bloodline intermingled and fell further and further away from their progenitors. The very same traits of man these descendants were to be above had corrupted them in less than three generations. Angered, the Twins, whose wisdom had foreseen this flaw, intervened. They introduced Arbiters created from fragments of their very being. Although relatively few in number, they lived vastly extended lives and need not rely on folk tale to empower their arrays, for they have witnessed almighty events themselves. They are charged with the duty to arbitrate compromise and to guarantee contracts.

  For centuries, this system held true, ushering a golden era of prosperity never before seen. However, there was one fundamental flaw. Just as Celestials derive power from mortal worship. They also reflect mortal sins.

  - Excerpt from nameless book; Written by a theologian whose name has been wiped from history; written circa 4 solar cycles post-shattering.