First, the god known as Poniceus created the world, and realized that the color purple is the best one. He made the entire world purple, but people became angry with just one color and split up the perfect hue into red and blue.

The red people became Rojas, and loved redstone and valued intelligence as the greatest thing. The blue people became the Azulas, and favored Lapis Lazuli for its use in art and aesthetics.

Poniceus tried to reason with them to get the two sides to see that it is better to focus on both parts of life, but when he asked them to give up their red and blue blocks so he could change them back to purple they refused. Poniceus gave up on this world and left to a separate astral plane which he called Purpura, where everything is purple.

One day, a prophet named Armentis came along which Poniceus spoke to. He told Armentis to try and get the two sides, Rojas and Azulas to combine and make the world purple again so that Poniceus could come back.

Armentis went around teaching people to combine their ways of life, their ideals of intelligence and art, but was met with hostility and died. Armentis' and Poniceus' will lives on however, in the followers of Purprism, known as Purpriests. We strive to better our understanding of history and science as well as our aesthetic awareness and appreciation of beauty. And of course we want to put purple clay blocks everywhere so that Poniceus can come back and wipe the non-believers from the face of the Earth in a brilliant blaze of violet fire.