Before any other life walked Organ and
the Major Gods Rested upon the surface.
The firstborn of the world were the Icthyocentaurs.
Little was preserved about them, all we know is our Primal world had No time or Order until the Grand and Terrible action of one, Eyto, doomed the many.

The Majors split eir children into four parts as a punishment for Eyto's crime. The Icthyocentaur's bodies now severed, their personalities halved and sent along with their limbs.

We came from their hands.
Merfolk came from their wounds
Humans came from the head
And Centaurs from the body

The Majors rose to the heavens in disappointment.
The world had reset.

Coined Eyto's year, the first Named era or period, we now live in its 25th iteration with the splitting being its first. Each passing year is marked as follows, until the Majors or the Churches of Abaddon announce a new Era.

Most of Organ became a bid to assert belonging and pride. None more so than us. Everything we have done is to avoid the blinding pain of another Splitting. By ensuring our actions as individuals represent the values of the whole. And those of us capable of harm can't do it under the eyes of the Major. Under their watch you will not speak out of turn again, And neither will I.

~ Fountain
Of the Harpies

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