The Whole One's Breaking

The Whole One cried for us, because we could not.

Summary

Eons and eons ago, before we had cities, before we had art, the Whole One watched us from its own world. In the time before time, humans had no emotions. No feelings. The Whole One contained all the emotions within itself, and as it looked on humans it felt them all. Despair, that we knew not what we could be. Anger, that we had no chance to live as it did.
And joy, for it knew how to fix us.
The Whole One spoke across worlds to those we now know as mages. It told us that it would shatter itself to allow us to feel emotion, so that we might be more than we were.
And then it did.
In one massive burst, The Whole One broke itself into a thousand thousand shards, each a different facet of emotion. The dust from its breaking crossed the boundary between our worlds, and humans knew joy, sadness, love, and anger.
The Whole One is timeless, and its gift is temporary. In a thousand thousand years, when all humans have completed the cycles of reincarnation, the Shattered Gods will merge once more and The Whole One will be reborn.

Historical Basis

Oral tradition passed the tale for a few generations, and roughly a hundred years after the 'event' there are written records of The Whole One's proclamation across the world. Discounting slight differences caused by languages and cultures, the proclamation was essentially the same on every side of the world. Cultures that had no contact with each other recorded the words near identically.

Spread

The tale of The Whole One is commonly known, and forms the basis of most religions. Very few people consider it to be false.