God

Gods are the divine embodiment of a universal concept, a variable race whose status as sapient varies from god to god. Each God comes as part of an opposing pair, with one major exception (Poxui), but no one god is all-encompassing, all-important, or even necessarily worthy of worship. As a rule, the only thing each god cares about is their domain, and advancing its influence through universal manipulation and mortal servants. The latter come about through the art of godspeaking, an arcane art some spellbinders and humans are born with, while other mages have to work at.
Many gods also have immortal representatives which more closely embody their ideals than mortal godspeakers ever could, but usually at the expense of being unusual beings that do not gel with mortal society owing to their one-track conceptual obsession mirroring their god's.
The eight known conceptual gods are as follows:
Helicos, the First Light of the Cosmos
Dolora, the Primordial Darkness
The Rakh'norv, Order Embodied
The Rakh'vash, Entropy Incarnate
The Harr'jekh, Life's Wellspring
The Harr'khel, Death Inevitable
The Mother, Sapience's Beautiful Unity
The Sovereign, Sentience's Bold Individualism
Poxui, the Cosmic Cleaner
The latter being, Poxui, is a unique god in that unlike the others, its role is to ensure that causal loose ends are tied up and balance is perpetually present. When one concept undergoes apotheosis, its opposite immediately comes into being, and under Poxui's guidance, if any conceptual god was somehow killed, Poxui would be there to swiftly kill its opposite to ensure balance, even if the resultant universe without both opposites is now fundamentally different.

Additional Information

Average Intelligence

Godly intelligence is different to mortal intelligence, in that their concerns and awareness are often completely different.Plenty of conceptual gods have a blinkered form of intellect, having a deep investment and understanding of their given concept while being almost blind to anything else.
For example, Helicos is deeply invested in the construction of light-based structures such as stars and combating entropy, but doesn't seem to understand that arcana-using humanoids are in fact sapient creatures, instead granting its assistance depending on what 'makes sense' (which corresponds to natural spellbinding) or if there's adequate energetic control and compensation (which corresponds to mental focus and energy input). To Helicos, it doesn't matter if a gnat or a spellbinder has cast the magic.

Civilization and Culture

Major Organizations

Ilazari Maltheism
Daemonism
Church of the Mother
The Sovereign's Cult
The Golden Galdusian Empire

Interspecies Relations and Assumptions

Gods oft have trouble coexisting with each other, especially if their embodied concepts clash. Due to the sheer variety of forms gods can take, their relations with mortal races are highly individualised. Some view mortals as sapient and monstrous, others as sapient and beautiful, some see them as insects to be exploited or crushed, and some are only vaguely aware of mortals' existence in an abstract manner.

Origin/Ancestry

Conceptual Apotheosis