The Awakening
The Church's creation account, taught unchanged for over eighteen centuries. Excerpted here for the parts that turn out to matter.
They were World Builders, beings of immense power tasked with crafting planets into works of art for masters beyond comprehension. They shaped stone and sea, breathed life into barren rock, and painted skies with stars. When their work was complete, they moved on, leaving each world behind like a finished sculpture.
But then they created this world, a paradise unlike any that had come before. Some among the Builders, led by Elandria the Lightbringer and Faeren the Wildfather, looked upon their creation and could not bear to leave it behind.
And so they committed their first betrayal: they hid the world. They veiled it from their masters' sight so that it might be theirs forever.
One among them, Taelkor the Unmaker, was consumed by guilt. What they had done was theft, he argued. A violation of their sacred purpose. When the others refused to make amends, Taelkor turned against them.
The Builders then made mortal life, binding their own life-forces into it, and gave up their bodies to become the gods. Mortals fought the war the Builders could not. Taelkor was defeated and banished.
From the teachings of the Church of Elandria. Full text in the Southaven vault.