The Ancient one, a being of pure order, and The Primal One, a being of pure Chaos, engaged each other in a cosmic wager. Could cycle of creation and destruction be engineered so perfectly that it would never break? They agreed to try 10,000 cycles. Each cycle was different, but they all had the same points: Three brothers are created, one dies, the other two (a creator and a destroyer) fight, the creator creates a universe, and finally the destroyer eats it all and dies.
Skip to the present cycle, number 8,947. The Ancient One uses the mass of energy remaining from the previous realm to fashion his three "sons": Life, Void, and Time. They live in an Edenic paradise. Normally, one of them is mauled by a beast that exists outside of the safe zone because he was an idiot and left. But not this time (hehe). Time was haunted by visions of the previous world because the last cycles Life had learned the secrets of the cycle and transmitted the memories (so all of the flashes will be from Life's point of view). Time doesn't know what the nightmares mean until he is almost killed by the beast, but is able to escape the same way Life did in the past. He finally realizes that these have all been visions of the past. And that's when things go bad. (Before going on, it is important to note a few things. Firstly, the boys had found a cave full of orbs of bright light and a portal which took them into an endless void. using the light and the void, Life created things. Also, because of the beast thing earlier, more monsters were breaking into paradise, so they needed weapons. Void tried to make things too, but they would shatter and he would become more powerful. This only upset him as he wanted to make things like his brother. Time was scared because he had nightmares of the void through the portal.) He sees visions of Void killing thousands of people. Time told these to Life, who instantly believed him because he's not a stupid TV character who never believes the psychics. Life began to create a world within the void (A new one, because he had made several before) with intelligent people who only existed for war. Time and Life tried to act like nothing was wrong, but Void realized that they were acting weird. At the beginning of their last day in the paradise, Time received his final vision: Life of the previous cycle was looking into a mirror, not looking very good, and explained the cycles and told Time what he needed to do; use chaos. Time ran to the outskirts and Void noticed this and followed him. Life was near the edge of the forest resting and gathering food after some intense work on his world. Time relayed what he had seen in the vision, and Void overheard parts of it. He reveals himself and confronts his brothers, who only tell him that he is supposed to kill them. Confused and angry that his brothers hate him, Void yells and cause the grass to wilt, and the magical wall posts that keep the monsters out stopped glowing. A bunch of monsters starts to swarm into paradise, and the three brothers run to the cave. Once in the cave, Life collects seven of the orbs and prepares to jump into the portal. Time says that Void can't come because he will kill them. As they argue, three beasts rush in attack. Life pushes Void into the beasts as he and Time jump into the portal. Void, bleeding and crying (and also REALLY angry) reached out and grabbed Time by the ankle. Time's life was almost completely drained before Life broke Voids hold. As they drifted deeper into the void, they could see Void being killed by the monsters. Suddenly, in swirls of purple, the Monsters disappeared. Void stood up and hobbled to the portal as the entire cave began to swirl as well. He made eye-contact with Life for a second, and then the entire paradise exploded, and then imploded. Life swam in the blackness, still holding Time, and found his world. Time has his final vision, in which the previous Void mortally wounds Life and then kills himself. The vision reveals that the paradise always blows up, and Void had not been killed and the cycle hadn't been broken. Time says that there is no hope and that the cycle is infinite, then he died.
Life began enacting the first part of the plan: buy time to build up a bigger army. So he continues to make his world big and he created a very powerful warrior to lead his armies. As soon Void arrived with a horde of undead monsters from paradise, Life left and an epic war began. Life created many small realms to distract Void and then finally settled far away to create his final world. Using the orbs he had taken from the cave, he created his sons: The Elves of Aether, Arcane, Elements, Knowing, and Might (He had used one to make the general and he grabbed an extra one to use later). Knowing was created using the part of Time that was left, and He was told the secret of the cycle and made him his right-hand man. He told them to create stuff and gave each of them a secret mission.