[b][u]Lore[/u][/b]
To help further your understanding of the foundations of this roleplay, reading [i][url=http://www.gnosis.org/gnintro.htm]The Gnostic World View: A Brief Summary of Gnosticism[/url][/i] will suffice. From there, you may learn all you need to understand Gnosticism. Gnosticism, however, shall not dictate entirely the background of the roleplay, and I have and will tweak concepts here and there to match my intentions for this roleplay. Below are some essential texts that you might find useful in your knowledge of the roleplay.

[b]The Four Spiritual Races[/b]
[u]The Chosen[/u] are the souls of people, claimed by the One or Yaldabaoth. Regardless of whom originally claimed them, the Chosen hold the power to decide between the One and Yaldabaoth. Upon the beginning of the end, they will be contacted by demons and angels and visions until they achieve enlightenment and must choose between the One and Yaldabaoth. Once they choose their alignment, their fate is sealed, and they will receive power gifted by the God they aligned with. The Chosen are high school students in Union Hill, Texas, a suburb of Fort Worth. [i]You may freely play the Chosen.[/i]
[u]The Blinded[/u] are all of the normal people in the world. They may be divided into two groups: the Free and the Chained. The Free may receive enlightenment and discern between the forces of Order and Chaos, Light and Dark, but the Chained are bound to the Darkened and the material world and shall give into the will of Yaldabaoth for eternity. [i]You may only play the Free.[/i]
[u]The Aeons[/u] are the various emanations of the One, the purest form of God from which pleroma, the fullness of divinity and region of light, emanates. The proposed tree models of Aeons in pleroma can be found [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeon_(Gnosticism)]here on Wikipedia[/url]. The One radiates his light, and he may send his Aeons forth to the material world by his command. The Aeons themselves may also command those below them in the ranks of pleroma, and the nine choirs of angels are minor Aeons distinct from the major thirty. All Aeons come in 'male-female' pairs (although they are actually spirits of great power and don't actually have gender). [i]You may only play the minor Aeons.[/i]
[u]The Darkened[/u] are the various depths of the darkness of Yaldabaoth. They are demons essentially, and they are neither organized nor orderly. They may manifest as people, and they are the reigning party of the material world. [i]You may only play the minor Darkened.[/i]