The Creation of the World

First, there was one being, the Antecedent. It had 3 faces and nothing more, and grew bored one day. It split itself into 3, one being for each face, and they were named Time, Space, and Energy.     Time was a colorless entity, who spun the world in such a way that it was perfectly consistent, and always moving forwards.     Space was a swirl of colors, who embraced all in infinite heat and cold.     Energy was love and hate, joy and despair, life and death, push and pull, the balance of all opposites.     And they were together for a time, before time had a name. There is no unit to measure how long they simply were, but one day they again grew bored, and split themselves into 3 more, totaling 9. Each dedicated a third of themselves to creation, and split the other 2 thirds into separate opposites.     Time became the concept, as well as Fire and Ice, the heat at the beginning of everything and the cold at the end.     Space became all material in the universe, as well as Wind and Earth, who gave everything and claimed it again when it wasted.     Energy became all souls in the universe, as well as Life and Death the giver and taker of all that was. And so the world came into being. Earth and Life created man, wind and fire fed them, and ice and death ensured they returned to Earth and Life, so the cycle would never end. Man called them the Primeval Kin, and for a time all was well.     One day, the Kin noticed man doing something they were not supposed to: playing with their tools they were simplistic and weak mockeries of what the Kin could do, but it was still troubling. Earth was the first to see, as they were closest to man, and asked the new mages how they got their powers. The mages said it was Wind who taught them. Life saw next, as they breathed new energy into mages who learned to extend their lives. They asked where they were taught this power and was told that death taught them. Finally, Fire saw last, as mages began to learn how to slow and even stop time. They asked the mages who taught them such magic and was told that it was Ice, who taught them to slow time to a crawl.     Because of this, Earth, Life, and Fire met in secret, and discussed what to do. Fearing the power of Man's magic, they decided to wage war on those who taught the magic. Little did they know that Wind, Death, and Ice were meeting themselves, convinced that the other 3 were the ones teaching man magic. They decided to flee, before man became too powerful and usurped them. The one who truly taught man the secrets of magic was not any of the 6, but instead the culmination of the energy released when the Antecedent split itself in 3, an unintended consequence of it's boredom. It was known only as Enigma, and disguised itself as each of the Kin while teaching man more and more magic, thus turning them against each other. Failing to realize this, the Primeval Kin waged war on each other, while man, feeling abandoned by the Kin, decided to create new gods by worshiping the strongest of each other. With help from Enigma, who granted worship power, gods were created. Man's exposure to enigma created each of the humanoid race, and overexposure created abominations who were banished to the Far Realm, a place so far that it was harder to escape than death.     Meanwhile, the Kin shattered each other, and bathed the universe in their energies as they did. Small parts of them managed to reform, who were still powerful, but they paled in comparison to the new Gods of man. The Kin realized what Enigma was, and realized that it had profited off their war: it had bathed in the magic released from their deaths, becoming the strongest being in the universe. However, it was too late, and the Gods of Man trapped them in a prison, so they never had a chance of returning to their former strength. Before they were captured, they managed to divine a prophecy.