Samuel sat alone in the room provided for him. He flagellated underneath candlelight, praying for forgiveness and mercy for those who suffer before bathing his body. With a final look towards the moonlight he sat at his desk opening the large book on it.
The words Alfred said stuck in his mind, and he felt the need to re-read the scriptures to understand the minds of those who strayed from the Church's core teachings. Much like 50 years ago when he tried to suppress the heretics who broke away, he saw it arise on the opposite end of the continent. Turning to the first page he began.
In the beginning, only Sol existed. His shining light filled the endless void. Yet despite his omnipotence and omniscient the great lord felt alone. With his great power, Sol created his son Khors, giving a fraction of his power to him. Wishing to truly enjoy the company his son provided, Sol sealed away his knowledge of the future, only to be freed aeons later when he would once again need it.
Millennia passed, with father and son being the only two to exist in the endless expanse, and despite the love and joy the two brought to one another they always felt something was missing. Unable to bear seeing his son in such distress about a problem he couldn't solve Sol believed it his mission to fix this.
With his endless power, Sol created his daughter Gaia, and on it, he placed his most flawed yet loved creation, humanity. Unlike the Gods, Humanity had no divinity. With a limited lifespan and no power of creation, they showed emotions that had been foreign to the perfect gods.
Khors seeing the captivation his father had for humanity caused a new emotion in him. The seed of jealousy grew with each passing day and finally, broke the once beautiful God.
Disguising himself as a human Khors stepped foot on Gaia and lived among the humans, slowly eating away and corrupting them. His beauty was feminine and aroused the attention of anyone who looked at him, and with this power, he approached the first man and woman.
Human society had been free from wars and grief. They remained faithful to the gods and under the near-divine first man and woman they led prosperous lives under the Kingdom of Man. Yet it all changed when the purple-haired beauty arrived.
With his new body, Khors approached the first man. His beauty so strongly captivated the man, that he was led to believe he had found the perfect human, the one truly created in Sol's image. His sweet words and seductive appearance made the first man break the sacred vow of marriage and the two lay with one another, with Khors leaving in the dead of night.
Then he approached the first woman. The contrast between his masculine demeanour and his feminine beauty created a rift in the woman's heart. A desire she never knew she had awoke and the two lay with one another, Khors once again escaping in the dead of night.
With their worlds changed by new loves in their hearts the first man and woman slowly split, their dissatisfaction with one another growing. The Kingdom of Man suffered as they spent all the resources they had to find the one they truly loved.
The situation reaching its peak with the pregnancy of the First Woman. The years before the news would have been celebrated, yet the first man and woman had not laid with one another in many months. Locked away by her husband the first woman gave birth to a creature out of a nightmare, for it was a sin for a mortal to carry a god's child.
Branded as a witch and burned at the stake the first woman died. The child was sliced and quartered as a devil, not good enough to feel the flames of Sol. Humanity split into two. Those who followed the first man and believed he was right, the others led by a purple-haired beauty who looked not of the Earth, fighting to avenge the beloved first woman.
War, famine and disease broke out, as Khors looked to the sky hoping to finally have his father's attention. In his grasp the first man's head whose expression was filled with pain and betrayal.
In his grief over the humans, Sol had been late to react as he watched his son sow chaos. His belief that his son would come back to his senses and return to his side never came and humanity lost its leader. With the death of the first man, Sol forcefully returned his son to his side.
Sol called his daughter Gaia to his side, as he sentenced Khors. Gaia who loved humans just as much as her father wept for those who died, bringing a great flood to the planet, wiping away all the destruction caused yet not harming the people.
Khors, in his eternal mission for his father's attention, bragged. How the humans were weak and easy to corrupt and how they were not worthy of his attention. He turned to his sister and berated her for her sadness over a failed creation that was so superficial they destroyed themselves over his beauty.
With one word Sol spoke. "Disappointing." His cold rejection broke his own heart as he turned his back on his son. Seeing his father's back leave, disbelief, anger and hatred filled him. First, he tried to assault his sister, who wept as Sol took her into his embrace. Then he tried to attack his father who suppressed his son.
With sad eyes, he saw the hate and anger that engulfed his son. With a swing of his arm, he split him into two. His beauty and kindness turn into the first moon. His anger and hate made the second.
"LOOK AT ME FATHER!" The words echoed in the void as Khors warped voice screamed twice at once. One screaming in love and sadness, the other hate. Unable to accept the sin of sealing away his son Sol distanced himself from the people of Earth in self-punishment, leaving them to his daughter Gaia, only to ever interact with them when they died.
With the sealing of his son the Earth gained two moons and two new stars. Taking the souls of the first man and women, Sol placed them just outside the reach of his home, never to be allowed to enter for the sins they committed.
The sliced and quartered child of Khors was picked up gently by Sol and healed, returned to his father to live with. Despite the sin he had committed, he would not deprive his child of the thing he loved second most in the world.
Samuel closed the massive book despite only reading a few pages. He stood up and looked at the moons in the sky, silently praying for Khors redemption. He thought back to what Alfred said and shook his head, sure that what he was doing was right. For a man to marry a follower of Khors, who tried to wipe out humanity, was a sin.
In his silent room, he chuckled to himself. He remembered this exact same thing happening 50 years ago and going through the same contemplations. A bitter smile rose on his lips.