In Midkemia’s past there has been major upheavals related to the gods. The first upheaval came about the time of the Chaos Wars (the Mad Gods Rage, Star Death, War of the Gods). At this time due to the Valheru’s raiding across the universe. The universe reorganized it self based on these raids and did away with the old gods. The comment is “One day Mythar shredded apart the powers of the world but Rathar never pieced them back together.” This leaves wide speculation about what happen to these two deities and where are they now in present day Midkemia. Suffice to say they where replaced by the new gods of hierarchy. But in the Beginning it was these two distinct blind gods or forces in the universe. Simplistic in nature they drove the existence of the universe. Each was the opposite of the other but yet without the other one, neither could exist. In order for something to have a beginning something must end. When the Two Blind Gods of the Beginning where replaced the New Order consisted of the forces of abstract aspect. The Gods we know in Midkemia today come from this period. But it was not to be harmonic as the first Two Gods of the Beginning. A fatal flaw was now exposed as the Gods now gained self-consciousness. Being aware of their actions and their functions caused the gods to develop free will. Now they have the ability to develop independently from other beings. With this development they conformed in to their now set roles. But for one god it develop the nature to be flawed which was viewed as being evil, destructive, the power of all negative urges. Due to its flawed nature it is considered to be insane. It strove to undermine the order that was formed, but not being chaotic in nature but to create chaos. This being named Nalar the god of evil, the nameless one, the mad god destroyed or altered many lesser gods and two of the greater gods Ishap and Arch-Indar. But this destruction or alteration is not a permanent thing as these beings are sort of as placeholders. The forces the gods represent doesn’t go away they endure but can be reassigned to a different representative consciousness. This period was referred to as the Chaos Wars, Mad Gods Rage, Star Death, and War of the Gods which occurred directly after the fleeing of the Two Blind Gods of the Beginning. It’s sufficed to say the struggle for control among these new gods occurred instantaneous when they came to existence. The god of perfection and positive impulse and the god the brought balance where lost, as well as numerous lesser gods. With two greater gods lost or missing the other greater gods joined forces and changed the location of the consciousness of the god that was creating mayhem until everything was restored to normal. This joining of forces has only occurred once, as one of the forces is not to do anything at all. These remaining Greater Gods that have circumvented Nalar are known as the Four Builders. These four build the thought of beings or impulses of action (abrem-Sev), thinking or planning (Ev-Dem), wishing or aspiration (Graff), and abstain or procrastinate (Helbinor). However the essence of these two lost greater gods are reforming and these lost gods Ishap and Arch-Indar slowly return to the world of Midkemia. The New Concept Century’s later, new dogma challenged the current one and called for a restructuring of the gods. This new dogma (similar to Hinduism in our world) structure was that there was a central godhead, and all other gods where aspects or avatars to understanding the One True Path to the one. This concept sparked a bloody civil war which in the end the new followers of this dogma where exiled from Triagia and settled in Novindus. The new dogma originated inside the Ishap Temple from those who sought better enlightenment and understand of the nature of the gods, and deduced this concept. This new concept coining the word henotheism is the devotion to a single god while accepting the existence of other lower deities. And its these deities that speak and lead a path for the individual to the One True Path that leads to the One God Geshen-Amat.