In the beginning, there were two primordial beings, Ombre and Lumière. Ombre loved the destructive powers of nature, predators killing prey, natural disasters destroying the earth. It brought him pleasure to assist life in its destructive force.
Lumière, on the other hand, loved creation. She loved birds building intricate structures, water sculpting the landscape into beautiful shapes. Most of all, she loved to help life rebuild after a natural disaster.
Ombre and Lumière worked together and against each other to build a diverse world filled with both of their elements. Whenever they had disagreements, life itself was reborn with the chaotic destruction and creation that lay in their wake. But there was no disagreement as transforming as the one that involved the humans.
Fire. Ombre claimed it as his for its untold destructive power. Tools. Lumière claimed them because animals utilized them for wonderful creations. Soon, the humans mastered both. They used fire to create new art forms. They utilized tools for mass destruction of the world around them.
The siblings fought over their domains but it was not a problem they could solve as long as humans blurred their elements. They finally reached a wager: they would take human forms and convince humanity to choose destruction or creation, darkness or light. The winner would add humanity to their domain. It was a perfectly fair competition, except the primordial beings neglected to account for the stubborn duality of human nature.
This wager has lasted throughout the millennia with the beings reincarnating into new human bodies. It was the oldest struggle, darkness and light, fighting for control over humankind.
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