The Tower and the Helix

Acknowledgment of a grand, overarching divinity governing the entire Known Universe is scarce to absent on most planes: most are concerned with the appeasement of more local, involved demigods or fall under vast, divine empires like Daybreak. If there is one exception—or rather two exceptions—to this rule, they are The Tower and the Helix, a pair of distant but supremely powerful entities mentioned in scattered accounts across all sapient history and society. They are also known as the Overbeings, the True Deities, the Silent Gods or the Amatsukami.

The Tower is grand manifestation of primordial order: the innate desire to structure and cooperate and organize. The Helix, meanwhile, encompasses primordial entropy: the innate tendency towards flux, change, evolution. When both are in harmony, the Universe is as it should be, seeking neither stagnant perfection or malign chaos. It is when the two are not in harmony that reality begins to fray at the edges and sentient society enters its dark periods.

The Known Universe is sometimes referred to as the Tower-Helix Universe.

Description

They are sometimes portrayed literally (e.g. a featureless, impossibly tall tower surrounded by a spiral of light) but just as often personified. Common for the Tower is a grey, androgynous persona known sometimes as the Watcher, while the Helix may take on a crackling, shifting but vaguely Humanoid form sometimes called the Maker.

Consilient Worship

Uninvolved and aloof, these deities interfere not at all in their religions. In fact they do not trade directly on divine quintessence with clergy of their many planar religions at all: that quintessence is simply shared among the worshippers. These are known as "consilient" churches, drawing power from mutual belief as opposed to a demigod's direct authority. The power is no less real, in fact it may be considered more reliable than powers granted by sometimes fickle or inscrutable personalities.

Personas

Another result of the Tower and Helix's obscurity is an enormous diversity of local personas and interpretations (though they generally retain the central theme of order & chaos in harmony). One example is Aios and Uhrmazd on the plane of Waking Materia, who represent the Helix and the Tower, respectively.