My child, you wish to know if Gods still walk the Earth? To answer one question would lead to many others, as is the wont of your incessant curiosity, so I will tell you the whole story of the Gods and answer a hundred questions before asked.
In the beginning there was nothing but the seed. From whence it blew and tree that sired it none knew, not even gods; for from this seed they issued, newly born into emptiness. Powerful they were and of it oblivious. Of these beings primordial were there five - five giants, prone and sunk in sleep, held within the husk of their vessel, suckling on a source divine until gestation would complete them.
The first to awaken, Elok, suffered greatly for his alacrity, for seeing the surrounding void filled him with terror and kindled him to madness at the loneliness of this abyss - for in this darkness he could not see his brothers and sisters beside him. Thus Elok conjured fire and light into being to temper his insanity, and was forever cursed to war against the infinite absence which he alone had the misfortune to witness.
It was thus to a...