The Triumvirate began some twenty years ago, first as a group of disparate souls who found one another across the veil of a thousand universes, then as a family united by love for one another, and finally, as purpose was revealed, it became an organization dedicated to fighting a war to win infinity: the Deific War.
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In the beginning, there was
the Void, a perfecy eternity of nothingness that lasted forever. But nothingnes, multiplied by infinity, eventually will equal one, and so
Creation sprang to life from the nothingness, a vast chaos of matter and energy and thought as free and imperfect as the Void was rigid and perfect.
Immediately the Void sought to correct its mistake by unmaking all that had been made, but Creation was infinite, and the Void could not destroy it. Instead, Creation spread like a plaque across infinity, filling the emptiness with its chaos.
But as is chaos's nature, there was no controlling what came into existence, and so Creation created
Time and
Order. Suddenly, the chaos began to be bound by rules and laws. Order turned the chaos into something fathomable, controlling and containing it. Creation was helpless against these bindings. Only the Void could unmake that which was Ordered.
Thus began the great conflict. Creation expanded out in infinite chaos, turning the Void into reality. Order expanded out across Creation, defining reality from the chaos of creation. The Void swallowed up and unmade everything that Order fixed into place, returning it to purest nothingness. The three forces were equally balanced and there could be no victory.
Creation, in its chaos, spat out intelligences behind these forces:
the Three. They were gods, existing far beyond mortal concepts of such beings, until Creation made bodies for these gods:
avatars. The avatars were infinite, and the gods saw this and decided to play a game. Three avatars, one of each force, were selected and given a finite universe to play out the conflict in. Each avatar was slightly different, each trio slightly unique, and each time there was a different victor.
These little finite conflicts played out across infinity, every conceivable combination of forces explored, until one trio was formed that was different from the others. They were so evenly matched they found balance and harmony instead of eternal fighting, and the trio rebelled against the status quo of the infinite conflicts.
This was an interesting problem. The trio, who became known as
the Three, challenged the gods they personified and the gods accepted the challenge. The winners would have infinity. Since infinity could not win against infinity, the conflict between the Three and the gods was made finite, with rules and laws that both parties agreed to be bound to.
They fought for millennia, for their finite conflict had the passage of time. Each side would fight to near victory, only to be beaten back by the other. Armies rose and fell. Empires were formed and turned to dust.
Then, the gods' side, called
Deity Command managed to split the forces of the Three asunder, scattering them across a thousand universes, and all that was left was to exterminate each and every one of them, bit by bit.
But the Three found each other and began to collect their scattered followers, using any means necessary to reunite their lost friends and family, for they had something Deity Command lacked: love for one another. They had been a fighting force, but since being so scattered and alone, they had truly found a need for one another and embarked upon a new era.
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The current incarnation of the Triumvirate was determined at the
First Conference of the new era, held circa 1990 E.R.T.
(Earth Relative Time). Many Conferences had been held before: great summits were members of each side would gather to determine how to structure reality for the next phase of the conflict, but this Conference was different. Instead of the Conference being restricted to the ruling members of the Triumvirate, every single member was included in a massive consensus vote, mortals and avatars alike. The overwhelming vote was to resume to war with Deity Command, which had been forgotten when the Triumviral forces were scattered. The Triumvirate became a military government, ruled by dictatorial council, with two ruling councils providing a system of checks and balances. The Three formed one council and influential, high-ranking, respected citizens the other. Power was carefully balanced between the factions, just as the powers of the Three were balanced.
In this system, all of the Triumvirate's citizens became ranked soldiers, divided into groups based on skillset and belief system. They lived, worked, and fought together not for the purpose of winning the greater conflict, but to protect each other and preserve their way of life. It was a grim task, but they were resolute in it, and within the safety of the Triumvirate's main base cities, life was good and safe. The front lines were a different matter, tragedy and loss a constant reminder that this was in fact a war. They fought on despite the losses, seeking to form a more perfect universe, knowing that their path was the best one.
All was not perfect, though, for while the Three had decided to unite against Deity Command, they still fought among each other. Their views and belief systems were so markedly different it was often hard to reconcile. The
Supreme Commander, avatar of the Void, sought to control more than her share of the Triumvirate and plotted a coup against the
Grey Mage, avatar of Time, and the
White Duchess, avatar of Creation. The Commander, with the certainty of the Void, felt that her methodologies would in the end prove the strongest and win the war, and she was willing to destroy the others to get that opportunity.
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Dr. Randall Raynard "Rammy" Ramsay III
