Six-Faced World

The Six-Faced World (六面世界 Roku-men Sekai, lit. "Hexahedral World") is the setting where the story takes place. It is a world in hexahedral form where all beings exist on its planes. It exists in a die-shaped structure with a total of six faces, each face is constituted of one world ruled by one God each:


 * The Dragon World ruled by Dragon God
 * The Demon World ruled by Demon God
 * The Beast World ruled by Beast God
 * The Ocean World ruled by Sea God
 * The Sky World ruled by Sky God
 * The Human World ruled by Human God

The End of God & Creation of the Six-Faced World
In the un-recordable times, before the Six-Faced World came into being, there existed the powerful "maker of worlds" simply known as The Creator (創造神 - Sōzō-shin lit. "Creation God"). He had lived for countless millennia's creating a variety of worlds, but in the end he was drained physically and mentally, so he stopped making new worlds for a very long time. Knowing that he was slowly dying and would not last for eternity, he tasked himself to create one last world before his time was up. However, he realized he did not have enough power left to build a stable world; the new world that he had created was severely deformed and unbalanced so he decided to create yet another world. It ended up as another distorted world, nonetheless he kept going until he finished making six worlds:

A world of dragons, where the heavens and the earth are reversed, inhabited by a race with enormous power. A world of the demons, full of miasma and noxious mist, inhabited races with extraordinary physiques. A world of beasts, with dense forests and mountains, inhabited by races with keen senses and powerful talons. A world of water, teeming with life, inhabited by races with gills, fins and scales. A world of rocks floating in the sky, inhabited by a winged race who flew freely in the sky. A world of flatlands and prairies, inhabited by a race with weak bodies but brilliant minds.

They were all distorted worlds which would soon collapse on its own, so The Creator stuck the six worlds together and was finally able to achieve stability. In this manner he established the Six-Faced World where each world supported the balance of the others. Still not content, The Creator decided to carefully manage the worlds until the inhabitants can settle and stabilize. With his remaining strength, he divided his body into six alter ego's. Then, from these divided bodies came the existences tasked with managing the dangerous balances of each world.

At the creation of his new world, The Creator - God of the Worlds, died. And from him came the new Gods that came to be known throughout the Six-Faced World.

The New Gods & Birth of the Six-Faced World
The Creator's alter ego's descended onto their respective worlds. And naturally, as a result of their divine origins and diligent effort to make their world prosper, the ego's came to be respected as "Gods" by each world's inhabitants. In the Dragon World, it was called the Dragon God; in the Demon World, the Demon God; in the Beast World, the Beast God; in the Sea World, the Sea God; in the Sky World, the Sky God; in the Human World, the Human God.

Then, it came to a realization to the Gods that the Dragon and Demon Worlds, due to their inhabitants who didn't need innovations, were living a life too primitive as compared to the rest of the Worlds. As a response to this issue, Human God made a proposal that all the Gods meet regularly and exchange information from their worlds to help each other out. They all consented, and then the Gods started to hold meetings frequently. From this point onwards, borrowing knowledge and wisdom from different Worlds, each World began to develop at a quick rate; Humans taught about the importance of reading, writing, communal living, social order et cetera and gave the light of civilization to the races that once lived like animals. The Dragon race taught how to use Battle Aura; Demon race taught how to strengthen a weak body; Sea race taught how to purify and store water; Sky race taught how to read and control the weather. The Gods were now content that the Worlds would thrive steadily over the eons to come.

With healthy cooperation the Six-Faced World continued to greatly prosper for a long time, until it almost reached total destruction by a chain of fateful events.

The Wrath of Dragon God & Fall of Five Worlds
100,000 years ago these worlds were separated by barriers that were extremely hard to cross. No person in one world knew there exist multiple other worlds. Only the Gods and those strong enough to cross the barriers knew of the other worlds. In history, this era was referred to as the Ancient Age of Gods. 10,000 to 20,000 years prior, an incorrigibly evil and awfully powerful Dragon God was born. He destroyed the barriers separating the world, and along with his followers - known as the Five Dragon Commanders - crossed and began destroying the other worlds. When only the human world was left, the Five Dragon Commanders turned against the Dragon God. A deadly match commenced and the fight ended in a draw. The dragon world collapsed in the aftermath of the battle leaving only the human world. Survivors from each destroyed worlds fled to the human world as a result.

Void World
At the centre of the cavity of the Six-Faced World, another world known as the Void World, exists. It is a pure white world of nothingness and is the path for moving to other worlds. It is also the channel for summoning and teleport magic. This pocket of space is where Hitogami, the Human God, exists.

Trivia

 * Earth lies outside the Six-Faced World.