The origins of Dwaia

Everyone used to travel through dimensions as easily as you would take a walk, doing whatever they wanted, whenever they wanted, since the dawn of time.

There was a consciousness named Demi around this point (everyone now calls him Demi as that's all that remains in the ancient scriptures that have slowly degraded over the years). Demi was whole and at that time just your average omnipotent being, when another god Azai (now the patron god of Dwaia) dropped a small object into the cosmic machinery somewhere in hyperbolic n-space. This event sent shockwaves through all the dimensions of space, time, and egg. It made reality grind to a halt, ejecting everyone out into the newly formed world of Dwaia, created when the multiple dimensions sheared apart under the stress of the machines trying to move against the obstruction.

Dwaia was made as the dimensions collapsed as a crude 3D cube based world, and many fell to the dark ways of Evil Land as they were stripped of their godhood. After a few centuries enough time had passed that everything roughly normalised, or what passes for normal on Dwaia. Societies emerged, and the old ways were forgotten apart from rumours of ancient writings, stories of cults in the heavens, and theories on the core of Dwaia and beyond.

Demi happened to be standing on the primordial spire at the time of the breaking of reality, and was shattered into eight along with the spires that went on to form the corners of Dwaia. These spires were formed as reality collapsed as an emergency procedure, and they hold out the extra dimensions. The power that flows from them gives each of Dwaia's faces a distinct aspect. As Dwaia folded into reality, Demi became aware of his situation, and his inability to become whole as every step he took between spires was taken by all other portions of him, simply rotating the other eighths around. He has since spent his time trying to reunite himself, setting up the Cult of 8 to aid him in his quest to shatter the spires that keep the extra dimensions away, and thus to bring about a new golden age of the cosmic all.