Schism of the Sumerian Pantheon

Some folks say that the Babylonian powers and the Sumerian powers are exactly the same, with only minor differences between the two - like their names (and little else). That may have been true once, when a single pantheon of powers rose from the sea, bringing life to the earth and spirits to the skies. The deities established the courses of ditches and rivers, their mission to keep the waters within the banks of the canals. Their gift of irrigation made their worshippers a powerful force in the world, ensuring the faithful world survived beyond simple gathering, hunting, and raiding.

But the gods grew and changed as their followers changed, and today they're two discrete pantheons. With ziggurats and temples, white marble and dark brick, the people and their powers have drifted apart slowly over the years, each taking on a separate personality and separate beliefs.

Has it caused a change in their attitudes? Better believe it. It seems some part of the primal Sumerian mind desired to bring order to the people, and the collective brain-box split asunder, drawing on energies that'd lain dormant, giving birth to powers that could fulfil the need for law. Where once they were one, now they're two: The Babylonian pantheon - much more concerned with law than nature - sprang full-grown from the worship of the Sumerian. The Fraternity of Order says it's the only known case in the history of the multiverse of powers fracturing themselves and becoming entirely different entities. Naturally, an event like that holds consequences. The two pantheons now hate each other with a passion, each vying over land dominated by the other, each struggling to control all the emerging civilization of the Prime.