Diarchism

"In the beginning there were 2 deities. One of Change and one of preservation.

The 2 lived in a vast primordial sea. He of change churned the waters for eons but the water always found level.

She of preservation did not enjoy this arrangement either, craving a tranquil sea just like the water itself.

One day when thrashing about he fell down into the deep and to his surprise found the sea had a bottom. This bottom was able to be changed and moved in a way unlike the water. Upon discovering this he broke past the firmament eager to start his new domain of progress, leaving the other to her sea of stagnation. Digging through the bottom was long and hard but as he could see the change happening he kept going faster.

The speed of his digging caused his hands to heat up, boiling the water around him into steam. As the digging continued his hands began to burn, his body became fire, the first fire. As he dug and dug he left lava and fire behind in this massive cavern that would become his realm. As the god of change he embraced this change from the cold ocean above.where water dripped down from the ceiling pillars of rock formed. Land above ground in the ocean would also form as a result of lava shooting up from underground. The change happening on it’s own was beautiful to the god that he set out to create something that could change things like himself. The fire he had now become was a good starting point but without his framework it was weak and died quickly. The water he always fought against on the other hand was resilient and unending.

By mixing this water with the fire of his own body the first life was created. This life was a type of fungus which while primitive excited the god very much with its ability to leach energy from the medium it is on to create change. The god was most impressed by its ability to create more life with slight changes from itself. Knowing that change is able to build upon itself the god decided to let these fungus work on themselves in this way to make more new life. Occasionally pushing the life in a direction he found interesting.

As another way to let change happen on it’s own the god used his own fire and made a large sphere of it to move around the world, bringing light to the ocean above ground and allowing the lighting to change. As an attempt to ballance out the light levels the goddess put a large rock in the sky to reflect the light of the sun back at the ocean even when the sun is away. This new moon was forced to change due to it’s contact with forces of the god but was able to only change in a repetitive manner due to its strong connection to the goddess. Overground the goddess of preservation had been enjoying the finally stilling waters of the primordial ocean when she could tell there was  a change happening below even more important than that above. Still not wanting to change anything about her pristine ocean she lounged on the water enjoying her peace. Miraculously she noticed the waters get cleaner. She sees strands of green occasionally float to the top of the water. What she was seeing was the results of the first algae and kelp. Eventually both above and below ground animals began to evolve too. With fish and squid thriving above water and the rugged pig thriving down under. Just as he intended life was continuing to evolve without him. The goddess never one to make a change set about preserving these ecosystems that the god had created.The one big push on life after it’s creation that the god imparted on life was for it to develop into a form like him and his partner. This resulted in intelligent life both over and under the ground.

The pigmen forming down below and the villagers forming up above. Pigmen society was often nomadic but built large works of architecture for industry and for worship. Villagers were originally aquatic and build large cities and temples. This is when the gods were worshipped for the first time. Both gods quite favored their worshippers and ensured their success in unique ways. With civilization thriving above and below the worlds were finally able to meet through the invention of portals by one of the civilizations. Due to lavlan pushing both of them to develop in a single direction. The 2 races were somehow compatible allowing the first true humans to be made. This was the beginning of the first golden age of civilization and an important stepping stone for all of history that came after word."

-The creation of the world as we know it

Diarchism is the religion of the ancient firelli and practiced by many of their decendants to this day. It centers around the interplay between Prismager the preserver and Lavlan the progressor.