The Doctrine of Erebonyx (concept - From Utopian Ashes)

It was an inference millions of years in the making. Gazing out over the universe, Erebonyx noticed the dichotomies that entwined everything. Every act had a counteraction, every existence an opposite. The very state of being contained an equilibrium maintained by contrasting forces. Creation and destruction danced across the cosmos in many forms. When an animal died, new life sprang from its body, which in turn used death to ensure its continuation. When fires ravaged through a forest, they left room for new growth. Erebonyx even witnessed entire continents - entire species - engulfed in violent eruptions, or meteors raining from the sky, but in its wake something new always rose. To be opposite did not mean to be separate; that was something he realized quickly. If anything, one could not exist without the other, not to its utmost extent. No beginning could exist without an end. No death could exist without a life. No rule could exist without the lawlessness that inspired its establishment. Their interactions seemed to spiral into another dimension of rationality that piqued his curiosity.

But as he observed more, he began to question: was that true for everything? Was that true for the other sovereigns? As an intelligent species arose on Telluris, Erebonyx watched his companions interact with them unchecked. They taught them their philosophies and gave them powers beyond natural limits. Those people spread throughout the continent, exploring everything they could. The ethereal and the physical are intertwined in how they modify each other, but whether through the sovereigns or the nymphs, Erebonyx questioned if aether intrinsically had its own opposite. The sovereigns were able to bend the sacred dichotomies of the universe to their will; with each new spell engraved upon the fabric of the cosmos, that balance was increasingly distorted. Existence unfurled along a delicate dance of contrasting forces, but while the sovereigns regulated it, they themselves remained separate.

Erebonyx realized that included him as well. They were unenhanced. Unrefined. The conclusion unsettled him. But Erebonyx still had his authority to influence the universe. His resolve resonated through the cosmos.

"For all that lacks duality, I will become its opposer. I now act on behalf of all that contrasts. I will become the antithesis of everything."

Even if it meant opposing existence itself.