Ceril sipped his coffee. "I'll explain....
“Long before the universe was created, there were higher beings; they are more powerful than gods. The creation beings such as Pearlelei and Elohim, fashioned the universe and formed the cosmic strings. The destruction beings, as their name implies, destroy the cosmic strings. The middle set is chaos that warbles between creation and destruction and maintains balance. All three types are essential and there are many of them.
“These higher beings splintered themselves. Some bore offspring while others formed new beings. We call them gods. Giovennith is an example of a born splinter; a child of a higher being. She retains knowledge of her mother. Swith is splinter of a formed god and he, like most formed gods, does not remember the higher being he came from.
“Think of a cup of coffee. All the universe is contained in the cup. If you stick your finger in the cup, you are entering the universe as a higher being. The more fingers, the more of you is in the universe. Now imagine the fingers forgot they’re part of a hand. They assume they are the “final stop”, the highest form of god.
“Swith chanced upon the knowledge of greater beings. She somehow taps into that greater being. She discovered that the four gods of her pantheon (five if you count the one who runs around trying to destroy them) are part of the same hand. She spoke her discovery to the four gods and they called it heresy. One of those gods, probably the eldest, struck her down, destroyed her body (matrix) and cast aside the box containing more matrix. He hoped her spiritual essence, lacking a matrix, would fade away. Problem solved.
“Then one of them got to thinking, What if she’s right? What if I can harness that power?"
He paused and allowed them to process what he'd said.
