Short Story
A god dreamed: There was one God in existence. It was bored, so it tore a piece of itself off. The piece was universe sized. The God piece was a living thing and parts of it developed sentience. These parts created their own forms by cutting themselves from the first God piece - they willed it to happen, and it did. They wanted forms, so they could do something and not be bored. These new gods used the remains of the one God piece to fashion the world and the stars. The gods created humans for something to watch. Some gods desired to rule over humans and wanted to be worshiped. A god forced humans to fight by threatening them with consequences if they didn't. i.e. harm to their family and/or torture. He also influenced some humans to fight. i.e. by encouraging envy. Because of the above, the good gods went to war with the bad gods to prevent evil and godly rule. Ranged magic blasts were exchanged. Some blasts collided. Some blasts were dodged. The situation for the good gods was di...