Periods

The Periods are the three separate worlds that exist in the Evillious universe. Since the creation of the First Period, two other worlds were created after it with distinct characteristics from each other, the last being the primary setting of the Evillious Chronicles.

Origins
Since time immemorial, the gods enjoyed paradise in their world. When their world suddenly collapsed, the gods boarded the ark Sin and traversed the black sea until finding a new place. There, they created the Second Period and prospered in the new paradise for a thousand years. When the Second Period faced destruction from "Malice", 72 of the gods successfully escaped the world's end on Sin.

Third Paradise
After sailing to another new place, the surviving gods worked to create a third paradise, 62 of them dying during the process. Once the Third Period was complete around BT 528, the god of the sun decided they would leave the world to their creations, the humans, and several of the gods opposed. The sun god then transformed two of the gods into the dragon Levia-Behemo and they began rampaging across the newly created world along with the other six kin.

The sun god then sealed the eight gods in Sin and left it in the Third world, allowing humanity to congregate around it and form their own civilizations while the remaining two gods observed their creation. The Second Period was then used as an afterlife for all humans who had died in the third world, dubbed the "Heavenly Yard". Following the Levianta Catastrophe of EC 013, the vessels of sin were released into the world the year after and caused numerous calamities throughout the following centuries.

After humanity became entrenched in a worldwide war, the nation of Elphegort developed a prototype Punishment weapon and used it to destroy the Third Period. Afterward, the world began merging with the Hellish Yard and all the human souls of the Heavenly Yard were pulled into the ground world.

First Period
The first world in existence, Inhabited by gods, it lasted for an innumerable amount of time before its destruction. After the world ended, the Second Period was created.

Second Period
The second world created after the end of the First Period, sometimes referred to as the "heavenly world". Inhabited by gods, humans also existed in the world. Some gods maintained human-like forms while in that realm. Its land prospered for a millennium before its destruction by "Malice". It included a garden area dubbed "Champs-Élysées".

After, the world ended, its land turned to deadened earth and the Third Period was created. Afterwards, Sickle farmed the decimated landscape to create vast golden rice fields; he then allowed all humans to be sent to the Second Period after death, dubbing it the Heavenly Yard. Following the destruction of the Third Period, the balance of power shifted from the Heavenly Yard and the land was left largely empty of any souls.

Third Period
The third world created after the end of the Second Period, sometimes referred to as the "ground world". Inhabited by humans, the Bolganio and Maistia continents were among its landmasses. It acted as a boundary between the Heavenly and Hellish Yards. After the humans in the Third Period died, they went to the Heavenly Yard. Its land prospered for over 1500 years before its destruction by Punishment.

After the world ended, its land turned to deadened earth. Afterwards, its boundary disappeared and it began merging with the Hellish Yard, shifting the balance of power away from the Heavenly Yard and causes all its souls to be pulled into the Third Period's land. After merging with the Hellish Yard, illusions of the world could be reconstructed from its nearby inhabitants' memories.

Configuration and Laws
The periods were distinctly separated by a black "sea" separating each world from the other. Each of the worlds had their own landmasses and rules established by the gods creating them, governing some of their laws of physics and specific makeup. Due to the nature of the Second Period with the Hellish Yard, the two exerted a natural pull on the human souls of the Third Period, with the ground world itself creating a metaphysical boundary between them. Magic was also part of the makeup of the universe and made anything theoretically possible for its users if given enough power and time to utilize it.

Conceptualization and Origin

 * Although functionally separate worlds, they are referred to as "periods" (時代), denoting stretches of time.
 * The name of the Gardens of Champs-Élysées is derived from the French term for "Elysian Fields"; in Greek mythology, the Elysian Fields are the afterlife for virtuous and heroic souls.

Curiosities

 * Although the Heavenly Yard is the Second Period, it is unknown if the Hellish Yard is one or part of the previous worlds.
 * According to Held, the Second Period ended due to the mixture of good and evil; he similarly disapproved of Sickle not segregating good and evil in the Third Period, especially HERs.