More Eons passed and Chaos created two more gods. Chronos, with dark silver eyes, hair and beard, fair skin, though not as much as Nyx, more like neutral tone, with his rather small frame and low voice he looked like a future scholar, with all the time in the world to dedicate to it's experiments and books.
The Fourth and last of the small group was Aether, god of space, dark skin and a bulky frame, even if he somehow was not the god of space he would make it obey his wishes anyway.
With this countless eons went by, and the gods grew, some strong and some weak, some beautiful and some ugly, some good and some evil, some friends and some enemies. The only constancy was that each, at the end of the day, was unique, even if they share the same elements or fields of power, each of them had a different purpose, with this, the distinction between gods became more obvious and they were divided in three majors groups.
The first group, and most powerful between them, is known as Primordial Gods or First Generation gods. These gods would be responsible for the cycle of life and death, throughout all of its existence, their domains may have nothing to do with the cycle itself, but they would still be needed.
For example, to create lower lifeforms, whatever they may be, a place and a time are obviously needed, just like the blessings of the Goddess of Life, but that it's not enough, the elements of which the lifeform is built from are necessary. But then would the creation of the world be so simple? Of course not, the elements needed to maintain the lifeform are also necessary, a fish needs water, a human needs air, and everyone needs to eat something at the end of the day.
Therefore everything needed to create, maintain and kill a lifeform are under the jurisdiction of the Primordial Gods, though what these lifeforms would do, this did not fall under their domains, just the basic and more primitives feelings and intuition are necessary: born, eat and breed, each species would have its own ways to accomplishment these goals, meanwhile the creation of societies, buildings, and even language and intelligence were not responsibility of the Primordial Gods.
First generation gods were fewer in number, only 5% of the overall gods population, but their might was unparalleled, dozens of the strongest 2nd generation gods with elemental advantage were needed to defeat a single of the weakest member of the First Generation, and that's not relying on the power of the big four, Darkness, Light, Time and Space, the first four Primordial Gods, each capable of pretty much annihilate most of the Second Generation Gods single handedly.
Even on the small chance of a Primordial god dying, little would change, while the god would perish, their domains would stay the same, that's because their domains were actually bigger than themselves, the elements and concepts were first created, and just then the god, they are more like administrators than owners of the place, even in case of death, the domain would maintain itself, although a bit more sluggish than before, and in a few hundreds of years a new god would again be created by the domain, like nothing ever happened in the first place, yes the previous died, but the domain would remain until the end of world itself.
The second group is the Second Generation Gods or Interaction Gods, these gods have two main characteristics that end up limiting their power. Firstly their domains are created and depended of intelligent lifeforms, these lifeforms willingly, but mostly unknowingly, create new areas of power that would end up in the creation of a god, secondly these same intelligent lifeforms would need to pray or at least idolize the gods previously created.
For example, the God of War, not only the concept of war just exists after intelligent lifeforms made it, but they also pray to be victorious on it, dogs fighting for food aren't in a war, they are just fighting for survival, but humans marching with their armies aiming for riches are, in fact, in a war, if these humans die, then this war doesn't exist anymore, it's not something constant or definitive, if no intelligent race ever declares war or pray for said god ever again the god would very slowly cease to exist.
Hence their names, because they depend on the interaction of intelligent races, to different degrees, to exist.
The power of a god depends on how many pray for them or how constant there domains are put in use, the God of War is one of the more powerful, yet one of its opposite, the Goddess of Love is so powerful that some even say she should be label as a primordial goddess, or at the very least a pseudo Primordial, The seven sins and virtuous also share this common idea among gods and are some of the leading heads of the Second Generation Gods, at the same time they also are clearly showing the division and constant battle between light and dark.
A long time a go Nike, the Goddess of Victory, wanting to prove that she also deserved the title of pseudo Primordial, stopped managing her own domain and, at the same time, asked the God of Defeat for help so that both collaborated in this endeavor, the result was competitions in which all participants were disqualified; where animals would starve to death all over the world, unable to hunt their meals; wars in which both armies fought to the last man; and dreams that would never be achieved.
Entire nations and planets were driven to destruction, simply because it was not possible to have a winner and a loser, so battles and conflicts would just keep happening until mutual destruction, even the relation among gods themselves got somewhat impaired. In the end she did managed to prove her point, and, thus, was largely regarded as a pseudo Primordial.
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The third and weakest among them are the Third generation gods, also "dearly" nicknamed Byproducts Gods, among the illustrious gods of the third generation there are: The Television God, The Smartphone God, The "We"toube God, The Car God, The Pool God, The Barista God, The Video Game God, The Couch God, The Ball God, The Football God..
While Second generation Gods usually are a thriving force for the races, the existence of the third generation goes unnoticed by the vast majority, even the gods themselves don't pay much attention for them, despite being the most numerous among them. Not only they also need intelligent lifeforms to have a domain, just like Second Generation Gods, but their domains were really, really small, sometimes amounting to a single object or felling, they also didn't need to be idolized or received any prayers, that's because mostly, they were created by accident.
For example, in a war, the armies would pray for the God of War, as well the Goddess of Victory to bless them, they would pray for the God of Wind to bless the archers and to the Gods of Blacksmithing to bless their armory, nobody would stop and pray specifically to the God of Arrows or the God of Armors, their domains were so miniscule and usually within a bigger and more prominent Second Generation God that they will go unnoticed by everyone.
Another disadvantage for third generation gods is that they may, depending on several factors, cease to exist, for example "Ball-god" may cease to exist if there are no more balls in the universe, unlike the Primordial gods who often have larger domains than themselves, the opposite is true for the third generation gods so, if their domains cease to exist, they will also cease to exist, this is how the "Paper God" became weaker than the "Touch Screen God", because his domain was severely weakened day after day.
Second generation Gods also suffer fluctuations in their strength depending on how much their domains are needed at that moment, for example, if the universe finds itself in great wars then the God of War becomes more predominant, otherwise it would strengthen the God of Peace, but despite suffering these fluctuations, the second generation gods have virtually no chance of becoming extinct, unlike the Third Generation Gods, who end up being created and destroyed every day.
Over the eons, the system initiated by Chaos, Nyx, and Hemera had already taken on its own shape, following its own laws and rules. The clash between light and darkness was what maintained the balance of the entire universe.
As time went by, Chaos was forgotten, his plan was to create the universe, not lead it, this burden had fallen into the hands of Nyx and Hemera, responsible for the eternal conflict between light and darkness; If their countless followers discovered that not only Nyx and Hemera not only did not hate each other, but on top of that they adored each other as sisters, and the conflict they led was a mere theater, a revolt like never before would happen, alas, that would never happen, the hate and fight between each side was already deep in the souls of the gods and even in the cosmos itself.
Except for some primordial gods, such as Chronos and Aether, who actually knew of his existence, and a few other gods who had their theories about a being greater and more powerful than the two primordial goddesses, although these theories never managed to be proven, nobody suspect of his existence; Chaos simply liked watching the universe he created and its thousands of interactions, without the desire to make decisions that could change it, unless he felt it was really necessary.
One of the planets Chaos found most intriguing was an insignificant one called Earth, located on the edges of a galaxy named the Milky Way, roughly in the center of the universe. Perhaps due to its location, this planet became exposed to the influence of gods from the farthest corners of the cosmos. As a result, Earth developed the "ability" to worship virtually all the gods in existence, with religions that would dominate for roughly two thousand years before being replaced by another religion, formed by the gods who held the greatest influence on the planet at that particular time. Thus, a bizarre and almost incomprehensible mix of gods, spheres of power, and influence arose, shaped by the inhabitants of this world — beings who called themselves 'Humans.'
In a world where even the gods doubted and were unaware of his existence, this unremarkable planet had not only identified him but had also placed him as the most powerful being in one of its religions. This fact left Chaos utterly fascinated — how could something like that even happen? Because of this, he kept a certain level of attention on the small planet. Perhaps he should visit this place in the future?
Despite living in peace, Chaos noticed a troubling issue within his universe. His own creations, the gods — immortal beings with powers that were nearly limitless — had developed... tastes, so to speak, that were far from pleasing to the creator of the universe. Chaos witnessed all manner of scenes where the gods, driven by their whims, chose to extinguish the lives of entire kingdoms, peoples, and even planets for the most trivial reasons. Whether it was to settle arguments over who was the most beautiful goddess, or which god had blessed a people more or better, their actions displayed a reckless disregard for the balance of existence.
In Chaos’s eyes, there was little difference between the lives of mortals and gods; all were equally weak before him, and all were part of his creation. Just as Chaos did not simply decide to drown all the gods out of boredom on a random afternoon, why, then, should they be allowed to do the same to others? simply because they were "superior"?
From his point of view, this was unacceptable. When Chaos had created the world, he had decided to interfere only when it truly became necessary. The gods, he believed, should operate in a similar manner — granted, with more freedom, of course — but wiping out entire civilizations on a whim? No, that would no longer be tolerated.
Something needed to be done about it. And who knows? Perhaps this would make for an excellent story.