Unable to write effectively, I’ll post some of the helps/background fluff used for The Powerless and the Profit.
The Six Sisters
The Six Sisters are all daughters of the long forgotten Elder Gods. Legend has it that the Elder Gods left their powers to Esthalla, the youngest of the six, and gave her the responsibility of dividing the powers that bind the world between herself and her sisters.
Arkuros and Amede, the eldest twins of the divine family were enraged that their parents refused to entitle them to what they viewed as their birthright. The twins conspired with Alhyrwe and Nilsa, luring the two into a dark pact to steal the powers their parents had left away from their unsuspecting sister. They attacked Esthalla in the grand hall of the Gods, stealing the many powers of the world away from her and leaving her for dead. Even Lykaan, Esthalla’s own twin, stole from her broken sister.
Perhaps feeling some pity for her twin, Lykaan left behind the five core powers that fill out her sister’s portfolio. Bad Luck, Accidents, Forgetfulness, Mischief, Misfortune. It isn’t known if it was pity or simply disinterest in those powers that caused Lykaan to leave them, most theologians believe that it was pity based upon Lykaan’s character and current portfolio. Unbeknown to her sisters, Esthalla had smuggled a power away for herself, Endurance. It was through that power, and that power alone she was able to survive her sisters’ attack. Esthalla crawled away from her home, far away from the turned backs of her sisters. She was one of the first Gods to make direct contact with the world, unable to return to her home until her sister’s betrayal was undone. She wanders the world to this day, her inexperience and misfortune have caused her to largely forget her former life.
With Esthalla gone, the sisters bickered between each other over the powers they had stolen. Lykaan, the last to take from her fallen sister, fled the palace when it became clear that Arkuros and Amede were planning to completely dominate their parents’ powers. Nilsa and Alhyrwe fought against Arkuros and Amede, the battle shook apart the palace of the Gods, sending all four of them scattering to the world below. Nilsa, who claimed the most powers originally, ended up with the smallest portfolio in the end. She discarded many of her powers to other beings as she grew disinterested with them. She kept the domain of cold and winter, and left the rest behind over the millennia.
Alhyrwe’s portfolio held many of the powers of the earth, water, sky, and forests, but over time she too lost interest in these things, scattering them about to worth men and women, forgetting them and losing them to individuals dedicated to achieving power. She maintains her current portfolio studiously however.
Amede and Arkuros almost immediately discarded powers that they deemed worthless. The twin sisters laughed in the fallen ruins of the Gods, spending much of their time plotting about how they would take back the more potent powers from their sisters, and any other entity that had managed to claim one. The two would have managed to be quite an effective team if it hadn’t been for a rivalry they’d always shared. Amede desperately wanted to control all things relating to darkness and shadow. Arkuros, unable to resist, stole the power of darkness away from her sister as a joke. Their relationship immediately soured, and now, though they share similar and often overlapping portfolios, their hatred for one another is legendary.
In the end, it is said that Lykaan has tried to help her forgotten sister, but with Esthalla’s powers corrupting her, little remains to be helped. Lykaan has watched over and guided her estranged sister, trying to prevent further woe from befalling the fallen Goddess.
