Five Gods

The Beginning

In the beginning the was nothing. Nothing like when you look at something and don’t see anything you want, you says there’s nothing. More importantly, there were no Gods.
Before long people came, and the nothing formed into something resembling paint thrown in to a fan. No one really knows where the people came from, or why they came. It just sort of happened. Not just people either. Dwarfs, trolls, elves and others, they all showed up. Drawn is what most people said. Spontaneously arrived is more like it. Still there were no Gods.
The years went on and the populous grew yet there was still this sense of being in a Jackson Pollack painting. There was no community to speak of, just individual autonomous units that operated on the “live and let live and if you steal from me you’re dead man” policy. It worked too.
What came next, that is; what came after the beginning, no one expected.

The Coming of the Gods

It’s said that belief creates fact. This is true in so far as to say that if you believe something, it in fact, exists in your mind. It’s a rather stupid explanation for all the problems of the world, but there you have it.
Time passed as it does in the Realm, a little faster here a little slower there, and the community that didn’t exist, existed as it always had. Then someone thought. No one knows, because know one will admit to doing it, what that thought was, but then there was a voice… In the sky. As stated before, not just humans lived in this area so when this voice sounded it spoke in Dwarvish, Trollish, Elvish and Human all at once. No one can be sure, but they thought they saw the turkeys looking up at the sky as well. As these things go, no one could agree on what this voice said. Some said it was along the lines of “Hello?”, others thought it was “Can you hear me now?” and a large majority thought it might have been a sneeze. Now we all know (advanced as we are) that voices just don’t sound from the sky. There’s gotta be a burning bush, followed by a flood and men nailed to trees for there to be any kind of credibility. But this when then, the past, they didn’t know such things. Because no one could agree on what this voice had said (or done) the population had broken off into factions. These factions were The Helloo, The Rhetorical, The Snuffle, agnostics and atheists. One can’t help but imagine what happened next.

What Happened Next

You guessed it… people got pissed. It turns out that when people don’t agree on something they get very determined to make sure everyone agrees… with them.
As mentioned above, 5 factions were created and 5 separate wars were waged. A 5-way war on 4 fronts. Get out your Stratego board and figure that one out. The war went on for years. Before long people forgot why they were fighting. This actually happened very quickly. It seems that people need to be reminded why they despise this or that. People stopped remembering when outsiders stopped coming in. I mean who in their right mind would want to trade in a region where a simple “Hello” could get you killed. So outright war turned to general animosity. And that’s how things stand today.

What’s in a Name?

The name Five Gods eventually came about when outsiders adopted the phrase, “By the Five Gods”, to describe something ludicrous and absurd. It stuck, and it was perhaps the one thing the residents of Five Gods can agree on… that they live in Five Gods.