In the beginning, there was one universe which contained two dimensions; Hell, and Heaven.

These existed long before time was even created; they were untouched and continue to be
untouched by time itself.

In Hell, there was life; there were the lowly Demons and Specters, and the most evil being
Lucifer. In Heaven, there existed the noble Angels and the Great Spirit.

Eventually when time was created, a new dimension was woven and was forced to abide by the
laws of time; it was Ora. The first few millennia’s of Ora was full of emptiness, unlike the other
two dimensions; this one had no life, until the life of man was created. When these beings
where formed, one final dimension was created which was named Axiom. This dimension
housed two guardians of time, the guardian of the beginning known as Life, and the guardian of
the end known as Death.

As Life and Death watched time go its course, and collected lives as well as gave lives, a type
of being arose in Axiom known as the blank reapers, they traveled to Ora through the
Omphalos; this is place where each of the four dimension are connected, as well as the only
place to travel to another one of the four dimensions, it was considered the center of the
universe. However, it was restricted to Life, as well as Man when they are in their physical
bodies. Since time does not flow in these dimensions, Life, a form of time could not travel
through the Omphalos.

When the reaping blanks and Death traveled through the Omphalos, Life set up a trap and
absorbed his brother, becoming a new being of Life and Death. The reaping blanks however
would not follow Life’s orders of laws and keep death flowing in Ora. So he traveled through the
Omphalos, and met a dying man named Azrael. When Life met him, he convinced Azrael to
give up his mortal physical body to serve him and be free of death. But this came at a cost he
would be force to carry out the duties of death and no longer live a pure life. Azrael took this
chance to become immortal. He shook Life’s hand and in that moment, his skin melted, his
muscle burned and fell to ash, his blood boiled and evaporated into the air, the organs inside of
his body exploded with such power, that what was left of his body was whipped around and
banged against the ground, the life was being pulled out of his body painfully, he screamed and
cried wanting his life to end but it couldn’t, he died a thousand times and experienced the death
that Death himself had to deal before being absorbed, then finally everything stopped. All that
was left of his body was his decaying skeleton, anyone looking at this would have thought that
this was the end for Azrael, however, Life bent over the remnants of a once honorable man and
said “Awaken”, and Azrael rose.

When he stood up, smoky shadows, which spun around in the air like snakes covered his body
until they formed a black tattered robe. Then, Life held out his hand and more of these smoky
shadows gathered and formed the Death blade, a tall scythe that was black as night, and the
blade formed a crescent moon that was half as long as the staff from which it extended. Life
gently touched the blade to his hand and then pulled back as a black colored blood dripped
down from his hand. He looked to Azrael in his new grim appearance and said in deeply dark
but extremely tired voice “Take this scythe and cut down those whose time has run out,” and
then he disappeared.

Azrael then began his duty and carried it out extremely well; he became feared and gained a
new name as a result, “The Grim Reaper”. As time went on the Reaper grew very tired of
following the orders from Life. The Reaper decided he would follow Life through the Omphalos,
and take all the power that life controlled for himself. When Life came to Ora to give the Reaper
more orders, he was attacked by Azrael. Life became very injured and tried to flee through the
Omphalos, but was caught off guard and by surprise on the other side of the Omphalos when
the Reaper appeared. The Reaper used his scythe to cut a hole between the universes and
bypass the Omphalos, and was able to get to Axiom before Life. He then destroyed Life’s body
and absorbed his power.

As the newly born Reaper absorbed this energy and power he laughed out a happy shriek of
enjoyment, but then his boney body throbbed, the forces of both Life and Death could not be
contained in his weak soul as well as Life’s soul could contain them and his soul shattered into
fifty pieces ending him, and giving birth to the Ascendant. The Ascendant was a shade or a
ghost who was the remaining power of Life and Death. However the Ascendant could not keep
time flowing, he could watch life and deliver it from the creator, but not give death, so he gave
one of the fifty shards of the shattered Reaper’s soul to fifty different families, and every
Millennia they must fight and collect the shards from one another to become the next reaper.