World History

Pre-History

Before the creation of Aeyin, the Angel Ema was particularly enamoured of humankind and their homeworld, the planet Earth. After an eon of servitude to greater archangels, Ema was granted a reality plane of their own, and decided it would mirror that of Earth, with its inhabitants being similar to humans but with some socialogical alterations.

Creation

Aeyin was brought into existence as a vast ocean, broken only by a single disc of sand upon which Ema stood, having taken the physical form of a human female. Struck by the extreme solitude of what she beheld, she decided her first act of creation would be to raise from the sand two partners to aid and accompany her: the First of the Acolytes.

From the sand, Ema formed a human shape, eventually sculpting it into an image that appealed powerfully to the emotions she felt most strongly in her female form - physically a male. She would later similarly create another First, with female physicality. When the time came to imbue them with life, she planned to endow their emotional selves with complexities dissimilar to those gender stereotypes she had witnessed while watching human societies.

Ema's plan was disrupted almost immediately when she brought the male First to life. A powerful love ignited between them almost immediately, and