Editing Creation of the Multiverse (section)

== Four: The Divine Sundering ==
The Arbiters were imbued with divine power from the onset, but did not have the self-awareness capable of realizing it. The titans expressly forbade them from using their powers and used them only as advisers. They were unaware that the Divinity they had formed would become the ultimate power of the multiverse. As they continued to refine their concepts of Beauty and Utility, the Arbiters began to expand upon a philosophical concept they called the Aesthetic Axiom, which is when they argued that Beauty was ultimately subjective (in the eye of the beholder), while Utility was ultimately objective (utility was either useful, or not). Covoran explained that this began with the investigation of flowers. The titans had begun constructing numerous plants of different styles, heights, and colors, and the Arbiters could not agree on which flowers were Beautiful, and which were not. They noted that these plants could be any type of Beauty, but regardless of their subjectivity on which flowers were Beautiful and which were not, they all served the same ultimate purpose, or Utility, within the context of that world.  This meant that a world could be wholly Utilitarian, but the Beauty of it could be expressed in different ways. This is when the Arbiters began to be more invested in the creation of worlds, helping the Shapers to apply their individual Beauty to each realm. 

Meanwhile, some Arbiters wondered if there was an opposite axiom: an objective Beauty and a subjective Utility. These Arbiters called themselves the Philosophica. They began to seek answers to their fundamental questions. Creating subjective Utility was a nebulous “yes”; they discovered numerous other ways to create similar functions from different things. Objective Beauty, however, was nearly impossible to create. No matter how hard they tried, the Philosophica could not get the Shapers to make something so Beautiful that all of the beings enjoyed it.

Over time, the Philosophica came to believe that the titans were at fault for the subjectivity of Beauty — that their powers fundamentally made them incapable of creating True Beauty. The Philosophica broke away from the other Arbiters and began to create their own things, using their nearly limitless power, expressly against the titans’ wishes. But even the Philosophica couldn’t decide on Objective Beauty, and in their arguments came the fundamental concept of the nine alignments, as each Arbiter explained how their alignment was the most perfect. This led to a lot of infighting, and the worlds they created became strict interpretations of their own personal alignments. And while they fought, they also began creating other things— creatures, concepts, ideas— all in service of trying to find the ultimate Beauty.

The closest the Philosophica ever came to Objective Beauty was in the creation of the Feywild. The Arbiters thought perhaps a “heightened” version of the Material Plane would suffice in creating Beauty, and used their collective powers to create a copy of the Material Plane, which they suffused with divine energy, brightening colors and creating fey creatures which were imbued with a particular substance that had yet to exist: emotion. Emotion was the Philosophica’s attempt at creating a reaction to Beauty, but with no guide, fey creatures became ''very'' emotional. 

The Feywild is the reason the titans discovered the Philosophica’s plans, as this Beauty and Emotional Chaos was so big and bold that it was impossible to not notice.

The titans were furious. In one fell swoop they converged upon the Philosophica and coalesced all of their essences into one force, Divinity, which they expelled into the Feywild, as at this point the Feywild was still largely connected to the Material. The titans then, concerned about the power of the rest of the Arbiters, attempted to expel them into the Feywild as well. However, these Arbiters had seen the Philosophica’s independence destroyed and essence expelled, and fought back. The ensuing war was the Divine Sundering. The titans found they were unable to hold back the power of the Arbiters, who cut through them like butter.

In a desperate effort to take control of the Material Plane, the Destroyer titans combined their power and weakened the boundary between the Material and the Inner planes, giving them the chance to contact their primordial creators and ask for aid. They succeeded, but the elements from the Inner Planes began to flood into the Material, creating a maelstrom of elemental chaos as the planes began to converge, nearly destroying the Material Plane. The primordials worked with the Arbiters to reseal the Material Plane, which was now surrounded by the roiling Elemental Chaos, further separating the titans from their creators. This was the first time the primordials came in contact with divine power, but it would not be the last.

In addition, sundering the boundaries accidentally ripped a hole into the Far Realm, which is what turned the Astral Sea into a waste and turned the primordials insane. More on that later.