THE ORIGINAL SIN
Kenos was the first to sin. The exact details of what the original sin entails are often vague in recorded mythos, but it’s widely believed to be related to Kenos’ destructive and reckless nature. The god was struck down from his throne by his older sister Iustitia, and stripped of his original title as The Light Bearer; now decreed as The Chaos, the Fallen God was banished underground where he may never again set eye on The Sky. The underworld, created by his fall, became a miserable place where those who are not worthy in the eyes of the Weigher of Hearts are fated to go after death.
Theritas, originally titled The Dawn Chaser, is often written as benevolent before his fated transformation. The god could not bear to watch his brother be exiled forever, and so he tried to strike a deal with their sister Iustitia; the immovable Iustitia did not relent to her brother’s soft-heartedness. Removing Theritas’ heart and crushing it with her sword, she would fate him to be changed into a large and naked tree, devoid of leaves and deeply rooted in the earth. For one who was not fully guilty, watching The Sky would be allowed – Without the possibility of ever again touching it. The heartless Theritas would then be decreed as The War, and instructed to watch over the matters of men with a cold and hollow heartwood.
The other gods have varying mythology throughout the Empire, though the central themes of their stories stay the same. It’s understood that the gods were assigned their modern paths after Kenos committed the original sin, and each given their respective tasks by The Sky, an abstract figure regarded as an omnipresent entity rather than a god.
THE PROPHECY
The night Kenos fell was one of much turmoil. The violence involved in his dethroning was one he would never forgive. The god would use the last of his moments in The Sky to cast a curse upon it: When the second sun came, burning in a crimson blaze, it would devour the original Sun along with The Sky. The world would be cast into eternal darkness, and the people would be abandoned by the gods who once watched over them. Left alone and miserable, they would gradually succumb to the starless abyss, which they would never escape from.
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The prophecy is a tale known even by the young children of The Empire. Though civilization tends to shy away from its mention and disregard it as simply a tale, there is a lurking fear of it ever becoming reality...