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Omónoia
Omónoia (, Chōwa no Seinaru Jun lit. Holy Order of Harmony) is a religious order dominant in the Coronaria Empire, created thousands of years ago, but popularized with the Empire’s rise to power a few centuries ago. Omónoia was delivered to the Empire at its founding and has been a strong force in the Empire’s growth through the years. Omónoia is well known for having a full developed mythos, and a deep truth to it, beings listed in religious texts existing on the same string of universes as Earth Land. A few years ago there was known to be a breakdown of the believers of Omónoia, into those who worshiped the beings of good and believed in the power of the Spirits of Virtue, known as Aretí, and Isorropía those who worshiped the beings that maintained hellish realms, worshiping the Spirits of Sin.

Brief History
Those who believe in Omónoia believe in an intricately detailed and thoroughly documented mythos. It is known for being listed in a series of tomes, known as Theogonia, outlining stories from the creation of the universe, to the many and beings that inhabit the worlds adjacent to Earth Land. The one being the believers of Omónoia give the most credit for the creation of their universe is Harmonia, a female entity believers of Omónoia associate with concepts of virtue, creative spirit, and union. It is believed that she is the one being that was able to appear out of nothing, created by the serene calmness of the universe itself. Harmonia, however, was lonely. Despite representing peace, she herself felt a lot of anxiety about being alone. Luckily for Harmonia, from her anxiety was born another entity, Discordia. The two deities shared their joy in meeting one another, and with their joy they emitted a spectacular energy that ebbed and flowed infinitely outwards, giving them a canvas to paint with their creations, to their heart's content.

They spent millennia just making small, obedient creatures that failed for a variety of different reasons. Through these failings, they were able to gather enough information to learn how to improve their creations with each individual attempt. They learned vastly, and with burning philosophical desire were able to devise answers to most questions an individual would have to ask about the creation of the universe. They created a variety of concepts, including medicine, science, technology, and magic. They delivered these concepts to the worlds they created, and witnessed the way these concepts interacted with the intelligent beings of each world. Seeing the way these concepts worked with each different world in very different conditions allowed for them to gather even more information to continue to improve the worlds they made.

As they continued to improve, they began to devise ideas for what they referred to as their Magnum Opus Strain, an idea they had for a collective group of worlds they could create together. They split up their work evenly, and decided they would create a midway point together. They started from the midway point and worked upwards and downwards respectively. In the midway point, they created Earth Land, filling it with a diverse range of creatures, magic, and they took their time perfecting the way the world would operate. They worked diligently in making sure things on Earth Land would run most smoothly, and would take up aspects of both harmony and discord. From there, however, their collaboration would get much more difficult.

They began to fight over aspects of life and death, and how Earth Land should be monitored in their absence. In the end, Discordia gave in and gave a lot of free reign to Harmonia. Harmonia took over the ideas of monitoring Earth Land, putting in charge the creatures she created in the upper dimensions. First, she created an order of angels, and assigned them a variety of different tasks, ranging from monitoring nature to making sure each individual’s life stays on track. Next, Harmonia created beings, known as deities, and credited them with the creations of different parts of Earth Land, putting them on the highest part of the Magnum Opus Strain. To ensure the deities knew of all things occuring on the Magnum Opus Strain, she created a race of angels known as the Malaks. They acted as messengers and were the most aware of the occurrences on Earth Land. The beings of the upper realms were made almost worshiping virtue, and opposed doing evil acts.

Discordia began to work on her creations at the same times, and many would believe that what she created would be similar to the Etherious’ on Earth Land. Despite this, the beings she created were not drawn to destruction or violence, but balance. People draw similarities, as the beings of the lower realms often are more grotesque in appearance, featuring things like pointed teeth and horns, or being very inhuman in appearance. Alternatively to Due to their scarier appearances, Harmonia forced spirits of the dead who did not achieve the greatest virtue into Discordia's lower realms. Discordia grew tired of Harmonia micromanaging their creation, and in spite of Harmonia, she created gates from Earth Land into the underworld.

When Harmonia discovered the gates to the world of the dead, she became furious. Behind Discordia's back, Harmonia created the Spirits of Virtue, which would act as a fail-safe reset button for the Magnum Opus Strain, out of her fear. Discordia decided to counter Harmonia's reset button with the Spirits of Sin, designed specifically to destroy the Spirits of Virtue. The two fought tirelessly continued to fight tirelessly about the Magnum Opus Strain, and decided it would be best to abandon the strain, and to work on separate projects. Both, however, were not confident in allowing this string of universes to be left alone, and so both channeled parts of their consciousness into the leaders of either side. Queenmaker, leader of the upper realm, was created to be part of Harmonia, and the same for leader of the lower realm, Herald King.