Great Ordering

The Great Ordering (The beginning)
* This is told from the imperial perspective. Rival traditions tell the story in different, incompatible ways.

When Raya was nothing but a chaotic roil of energy the Sacred Five took upon themselves the task of shaping that energy into something orderly by nature.

They contained the energy into elements: Fire, Earth, Water, and Wind, which they then bound. From those elements they crafted the structure of the world, a great revolving sphere set to rotate around the sun, orbited by two moons.

Over this world they set a warden, the Primal Goddess, to watch over and maintain the ordered cycles of nature. They then set a lock upon the world, so no god, native or celestial, could directly interfere with their creation without great risk.

Their work done, the Sacred Five departed, to bring order to the chaotic corners of existence.