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Back when time was new, titans ruled the cosmos.
Eventually, as always happens among those in power, they waged war against each other. The titans were of different elemental planes and when they battled, the elemental planes collided as well. This led to the cosmic explosion of lands: elements from each plane violently thrashed together, melding into various landforms and exploding out into the cosmos. The defeated titans exploded into millions of tiny crystal shards, each containing a tiny amount of the titan’s lifeforce. These crystals were expelled out into the cosmos, landing on the various landforms and creating simple life out of the elements.
Eventually, only one titan remained, claiming to be all-powerful in its victory. The triumph was short-lived, however, as the titan soon came to realize loneliness and despair. It missed the comradery of its siblings, even as it desired to be more powerful than all others.
This led to the Age of Dreaming: with no one left to fight, the titan slumbered for millennia and dreamt a million dreams, each of which were played out by the simple, ethereal lifeforms that had emerged on the landforms. Some dreams were idyllic, and some were nightmares, thus some lands were like heavens, and some were like hells. As the titan slept, its stone-like body began to erode into fine dust that settled around its form. When the last of the titan had turned to dust, the Age of Dreaming ended. The dust, still partially imbued with the titan’s will, scattered throughout the cosmos, exploding into a billion suns.
Each sun interacted with a landform, and where possible, brought about more advanced life. The first beings to emerge had the memories of the titans and some of their powers. Thus began the Age of Gods.
These gods ruled the lands for a time, but as often happens, they grew bored with each other. The strongest among them created the races of sentient beings: men, elves, dwarves, halflings, dragons, goblins, trolls, fairies, etc. Some of these gods ruled multiple lands and created the same races everywhere they went. Some filled a particular niche, preferring one or two. Some lived among the races. Some even mated with them.
For a long time, these beings lived by the will of the gods and worshipped them. Until they no longer did. Wars were fought, won, and lost in the name of various gods. Some gods were forgotten. Some were destroyed. This ended the Age of Gods.
Now don’t get me wrong, the gods still exist…
-Written 2021 (revised 2022)
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