**Descriptions of the following faiths entail how followers believe the world was created and how the world developed over the course of history. However, it is important to note that scientific evidence does not always support the events claimed to have happened**
Alphaesianism
According to followers of the Alphaesian faith, the Earth (Juno Minor) was conceived into being by the One Unnamed God, and that this world was all a garden with fair weather and infinite supplies of food, water, and resources. Moreover, the world was originally flat and infinite, as what came to be the Land of Men was one with the Land of the Divine. Both humans and the divine were immortal.
Over the course of 3000 years, the first 3000 years of the existence of the world, humans rose to greatness. With every passing century came into being greater and greater civilizations. This was the First Age of the World, and the last 200 years of it saw the most advanced societies of the time.
In the last decade of the First Age rose a Great Kingdom ruled by King Kotor, who determined to bring down the One God and rule in his stead. That he did, leading the Great Army and smiting the One God. In doing so, he split the One God into Alphus the Pure Spirit, Brox the Impure Spirit, and Aerphin the Smithy of the Earth.
Alphus determined to break the evil of humankind and therefore commanded Aerphin to sunder the Land of Men from the Land of the Divine. Aerphin complied and drove forth his Hammer into the Earth, creating a Great Chasm that erupted fire consuming the entire world. The Land of Men was violently separated from the Land of the Divine by both Ocean and Sky, casting forth the Sun, Moon, and Stars to reside with the Land of the Divine in the Sky. Thus ended the First Age of the World with the First Unmaking.
The dawn of the Second Age saw that the World of Men was now finite, consisting of a Great Land surrounded by a Great Ocean. The lives of humans were now finite and mortal as well.
Like the First Age, the Second Age lasted 3000 years. And Alphus charged humankind in this new world to repopulate and spiritually become one with this new world, adhering to the Three Pillars: To demonstrate one's love toward family, to demonstrate one's love toward the society, and to demonstrate one's love toward the Divine so that they may enter that realm after death.
It was during the Second Age that a man of wisdom named Torvin planted five trees of lael, a legendary foodstuff that was both wholesome and sweet, good for both humans and animals. During each season of Harvest, Torvin commanded that three fruits be gathered from each tree and each fruit gathered be planted for its own tree. The village of Satsie took this on and enjoyed prosperity.
Torveay, grandson of Torvin, many years after Torvin's death, commanded that some of the yields of the now many lael trees be sold in exchange for wealth. Many supported this idea and became very wealthy. However, not everyone conformed to this, for a man named Erik opposed Torveay fiercely and set out to kill him. Torveay in self-defense killed Erik instead.
And then Alphus the Pure Spirit smote the village of Satsie, forcing everyone to flee to the corners of the world.
Centuries later, near the end of the Second Age, the descendents of these people built ten Kingdoms, five in the South and five in the North. The Five Kingdoms of the South lived in peace and mutual harmony, adhering to the teachings of Torvin and enjoying bountiful harvests of the lael trees. The Five Kingdoms in the North followed the teachings of Torveay, growing the trees for trade and leaving many of its people to starve.
In the middle-most of the Five North Kingdoms emerged a powerful man of spellcrafting named Seraph, who named the Kingdom after himself and set out to conquer the other four Northern Kingdoms. After this, he launched an armageddon to the South to vanquish the other five Kingdoms.
This sparked a brutal and unending war, broken only by the power of Alphus, who commanded Aerphin, Smithy of the Earth to smite the world yet again. Aerphin did so splitting the Land of Men in a violent fashion into separate continents and islands by vast seas, and dividing this world into regions of hot and cold climates, wet and dry climates. Moreover, the Earth was made round.
Thus was the Second Unmaking, the end of the Second Age.
The Holy Scripture of the Alphaesian faiths describes with less volume the Third Age than the Second Age. However, it states that Alphus called on humankind to repopulate the world and adhere to the Three Pillars. Alphus also commanded the construction in the Land of the Divine of the Holy City of Edom to house those most closely following his ways.
This Third Age also lasted 3000 years, by the end of which had arisen a very prosperous Circlarian Empire, which conquered land overseas over large swaths of the continents and numerous islands. This is, however, with exception to those outcasts from Society who are mentioned to have gone to "a land far away" and established the nation of Agridbea.
Nonetheless, by the end of the Third Age, the Circlarian Empire waxed in its power and influence; and its Emperor sought to vanquish the rule of Alphus and the Divine once and for all by seeking to destroy the Holy City of Edom. The Great Armada of the Empire was in port ready to launch when Alphus commanded Aerphin to carry out the Third Unmaking. Aerphin took his Great Hammer and smote the Great Mountain of Circlaria out of which a Great Fire burst forth and destroyed the Imperial Seat in a great fire, and covered the entire Earth in smoke and ash so that all civilization died and humankind was forced to start over. (And it is believed that the events mentioned in literature here may have been derived from the eruption of the supervolcano underneath present-day Vantacula).
Thus ended the Third Age with the Third Unmaking, during which the Underworld was formed.
Alphus then came down and gave the Proclamation of Peace and Order, in which humans would repopulate over the different landmasses and nations in the form of different races speaking different languages. By order of this Proclamation, each people was to govern themselves as free people while fulfilling the Three Pillars and promising never to enslave or master other peoples or their lands such as what the Circlarian Empire had done.
Individuals after death would then come to the Judgement: those who did well would be sent to the Holy City of Edom to dwell for eternity while those who did not would be cast into the Underworld.
Alphus decreed that in the future, this Fourth Age would one day end, as society would yet again become corrupt. This, he proclaimed, will one day warrant a Fourth and final Unmaking, during which the world would be destroyed, never to be made again.