The First Moment

Before The Ackramorian Empire, before the world we call Jeharr, before space and time, there were only the eleven Primordial Gods, and the endless sea of unrefined cosmos, known today as The Sea of Sparks. This is the source of everything in Internus. The Sea of Sparks was the sandbox in which the Gods constructed all things. Each of the Primordial Gods mostly left well enough alone, as they created and tended to their own realms. 
The God of Creation, Ito, was the greatest among the Godly builders. Ito received a vision, one in which they saw the essence of the Sea of Sparks become a being all its own. Ito saw a vision of Mortal life. In this, Ito saw what would be their greatest achievement, the creation of a realm full of this new life.
Ito toiled in endless effort in an existence unbound by time. Before time and space, the Gods could create anything from the Sea. Ito whittled away at their masterpiece, until, for the first time, life came into being on the world Ito had named Jeharr. As life appeared on Jeharr, all of existence changed.
In an event that would come to be called “The Existential Permutation,” the Gods found themselves neighbors on the newly formed Plane of Divine Realms. For the first time, things began to change without their tampering.
This was the beginning of time and space, The First Moment.
Just as the Primordial Gods began to register the vast, all-encompassing changes in the rules governing existence, the sounds of conflict filled the Plane of Divine Realms. New beings were appearing on the Plane. The Gods of Free Will and Fate began a vicious fight, as the God of Deceit began a battle of wits with the Goddess of Truth. Hundreds of beings that would eventually become known as the Ancient Gods had appeared on the Plane of Divine Realms and, in an instant, The Ascendant War.
At the same time as the Gods began to fight in the Ascendant War, smaller beings took shape on Jeharr. These were Ito’s favored beings that they had seen in their vision. The violence of the Gods soon spilled over onto Jeharr and the newly formed Mortals found themselves pitted against one another in a battle of the Gods’ making.
Ito was unsettled by the innate violence of these new godly beings. However, seeing their violence spill over onto the realm of Mortals, Ito felt compelled to fight.
Sides formed and the consequences of the ensuing battle between the Interventionist and Non-Interventionist Gods shaped the world and the creatures which inhabited it.
Ito, for their part, chose non-intervention. As the God of Creation, Ito believed that they ought to have the final say in the future of their children. The Interventionist Gods disagreed and their battle continued.
Ito couldn’t bring themselves to harm their children who had been coerced by the Interventionist Gods. This was Ito’s downfall. Others blamed betrayal within the alliance of Non-Interventionist Gods. Others still believe that from the First Moment, Ito knew that theirs was the fate of a martyr.
Over the course of 100 years, countless Mortals and hundreds of Ancient Gods were felled until the Interventionist Gods reigned victorious. As punishment for the Non-Interventionist Gods, Ito, their leader, was destroyed. However, Ito could not be entirely eradicated. What rose in Ito’s place would come to be called Gaulgulis, the God of Damnation. In their final act of justice or desperation or shame, the Interventionist Gods imprisoned Gaulgulis in The Below for all eternity.