Origins
In the beginning, were the Divine. Well, not quite in the beginning. In the thirty odd systems the Divine would eventually populate and influence, there already existed intelligent beings, at various stages of their development. Two had already begun to explore the confines of their respective solar systems; a handful had gotten a little further beyond banging the rocks together, and yet others were in the water, eyeing land and thinking how much easier it would be to get something interesting going, if they could only crawl out. It would thus be more accurate to say that a lot of things began with the arrival of the Divine. No-one has the faintest idea where they came from, no-one knows why they came, but they brought three important things with them : their quarrels; their existential and physical negative, known as chaos; and an annoying but ultimately useful inclination to meddle with other relatively intelligent life as a means to further their own, obscure goals...