The highest powers, primordial and sovereign, are the two Basilisks, HE and SHE. Both have two heads, with each head being a divine power of its own.
The four heads have argued for hundreds of years. Verhu predicts inexorable annihilation and, since he’s always right, has become utterly full of himself. His is also the head worshipped most. If you could learn the codes of the apocalypse perhaps the right offerings might avert it? Verhu loves his position and hungers for temples to be raised in his name.
When the world was but water, dust and clouds thick with plague-fat flies came SHE, first of the basilisks. From the cracks of Bergen Chrypt SHE crawled. SHE bears two heads; the head of Denial, Lusi, who looks up and down and Her twin head Arkh, Head of Deception, claims to be the first prophet of truths now prostituted by Verhu. Few have ever seen her, the oldest, but many walk her twin paths.
SHE spawned many since the dawn of time, their conceptions not without agony. All were cast down the cliffs of Bergen Chrypt, only HE survived. Down in the Valley of the Unfortunate Undead his eyes locked upon the mountain’s peak, HE spits out curses upon his evil mother. He too has two heads; The head Gorgh is bitter, rank with envy that only his twin Verhu knows the damned truth. Time and time again his prophecies are brought to be. The piles of gold-gift riches from his faithful teeter and slide, so tall are they.
The war... SHE has known it would come to this for quite some time; SHE welcomes it. To HER, all reality is a lie, hence why she cast out VERHU from the highest peak of her Chrypt. SHE and her followers move to amass SLAGG for one superweapon, a technology that only SHE knows: the Magik of Ontological Fission. SHE will End the world: erase the lie of existence from every memory, burn every soul to ash, and unravel the very concept of time into fragments of stardust amidst the unborn cosmos.
The embodiment of both Denial and Deception, SHE has discovered a terrible weapon capable of exterminating all existence in the Dying Lands- the power of Otological Fission. Whereas normal SLAGG-based weaponry is capable of great destruction, Otological Fission tears at the very fabriks of reality, annihilating the past, present, and future existence of all around it in all realities, returning their matter to THE BEFORE. It is a power only capable of denial. A power only hidden by the magiks of deception.
While the world tears itself appart, SHE bides her time as SHE always has. When the Dying Lands has reduced itself to ash and cinder SHE will reshape it in Her own perfect image. Then all will be AS BEFORE. With nothing but the waters, the dust, plague-fat flies, and HER.