Prologue

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
—H.P. Lovecraft

Where did the gods come from? Many men had tried to answer this question, and the only answer they really found was that it's not a question to ask in a building that doesn't have a grounded roof.

The current accepted theory, however, hypothesized by men who knew exactly when to duck is that belief... Acrues. Sloshes around, in the vernacular, the object which is believed in. And all that sort of anthropomorphizing can lead to quite some funny gods.

The first gods arose when man looked at the night sky, into infinity, and trembled. Gods were invented to put something between men and infinity, the great unknowable depths of the biverse[1].

Of course, throughout the course of evolution, the gods evolved alongside men.

Gods don't like it to be known, but they are not immortal.

As with men, perhaps more so, only the strong survive. Either adapt the dogma, or get hit by karma.

[1] The current belief in parallel universes went that there are only two of them: this one, and the one where you made the right decision.