This world is a heavy inspiration of the mythology surrounding Yoruba beliefs, something I have been fascinated my whole life as someone that grew up inside of a post-colonization religion with strong roots in Yoruba. But assimlating so many things from something that actually exists and that people actually believe in can be kinda tricky. It's even trickier if I need to considere that the way i was told a myth might go is likely different how it is teached to another group of people - you know, it is a oral tradition. What I want you to take from this is that this story is inspired, but it ain't supposed to reflect the tradiotinal practice or be a source to the original tales (even such thing even exist intact nowadays). Hopefully, I won't offend anybody.

By the way, it is easier to understand the Lore if you have read Magic System first.

The high, divine entities of this existence, also called gods in some contexts. They are a group of individuals born from the universe’s energy, Axé itself, even those born from other Orixás. Each one of them is a lineage of Axé that came to consciousness.

With the limitless flow of Axé through their immaterial existence, they started creating stuff. They played and moulded the world, all form of life from unimaginable tiny to incredible huge, and then came the *creation* - forms of life that would be their equals, mortals, to populate their universe.

One important note is that not every Orixá interacted with the creation, therefore they did not need or want to incorporate their social rules, so they have a true genderless form. Those gods interacting with the creation might have chose to materialize themselves as they pleased.

Each Orixá will have a page dedicated to them. Names might vary in different regions.

- The Old Master of Axé, Oxalá
- The Old Lady of Creation, Nanã
- The Elder of the World, Oduduwa
- The Mother of Gold, Oxum
- Tempo
- Many otherssss

There is an entity, which mortals either aren’t aware of or aren’t capable to understand, that the Orixás look up to. It is called Zambi. It does not have a story, but it’s believed to be the origin of all the Axé.

Sorry, still in construction

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After Nanã finished the creation, many Orixás came to be interested in these new born beings. Each of them saw the potential of Axé inside of the hollow creatures and share with them a part of the Axé they have domain on. The creation’s core was filled and they formed this small group of people who interacted and lived with the gods. They did not die, they did not give life and they did not aged.

After many eons, the relationship between the material and non-material came to collapse, as these collective of mortal individuals’ souls could not comprehend the world as an Orixá - they were limited by their Cores and Channels. They craved to be equal to the rest of the material world, to be independent, to age and to die.

Oxalá then decided that they could not live together any longer. He asked Oxum and many other Orixás to remove themselves from the creation. He then divided the planes into two, Aye, the mortal realm, and Orum, the spirit realm.

Creation started to age, they could now grow, deep the bond between each other, create their villages, cities, become old and die. With time, they weren’t the creation anymore. The Axé inside of them moved them far away, literally and figuratelly. They dominated the whole world and became different from each other - other than their humanoid form, they were almost unrecognizable from each other. Soon enough, there wasn’t anything left from the creation.

In Orum, Oxum begged Oxalá for a way to her go back to the Aye, as she missed the creation as her own children. Oxalá allowed, as long as she would share it with all the pantheon. With a special canal between the two realms, Oxum taught mortals and gods how to connect. An Orixá could choose a vessel of their choice and term and use their present in the world to experience it. Some just enjoyed the lives of mortals, like Oxum that admire their beauty and art, others actively meddling in their affairs, like Logunede, which taught mortals how to manipulate Axé through medallions.

Mortals do not worship Orixás, nor Zambi. They never asked nor responded to any form of prayer, as it didn’t make sense for them to do so. That behaviour wasn’t rewarded, therefore it didn’t concrete and survive. If an Orixá wanted anything, they would acquire that through their vessels. How Orixás pick those said vessels is unknown and not sought for, as it has in many cultures even looked as a curse. Vessels have been victims of slavery and execution for carrying a minimal amount of the power of the gods. That doesn’t mean though, that there isn’t any form of religion in this world.

With the strong intervention of the creation over its own existence, a followed event was triggered. When Marlon and other alchemists made the first inter-species contract, creating a way never seem before for one to change itself - elves, in specific Tori and her friends, were made into demons, a big change in the afterlife happened.

All the souls in the after life came to see an explendid scenario in the skies. A strange world was passing by, and they could see how the Axe was bleeding into it.

With this wave moving to the next planet, the souls themselves felt their existence vanished from their surroundings. An announcement came, which each one of this body less beings could understand in their cores - some of they were moving on, and their new home would be complete alien to them.

The Orixás gathered with that view and the bowed to the souls leaving their realm, as more powerful forces then their own existence were at play. They reversed those souls with respect and wished them good luck in the new world.