Primordial Aether

The Primordial Aether is the unformed miasma of force and substance; the wellspring from which all things in reality flow. And, beyond the borders of reality, it still flows. There are currents in the Aether, called the Five Fundamental Forces (also called Prana), that form the basis of all known interactions in nature. The first four are the easiest to know: the forces of Light (Electromagnetism), Material (Strong & Weak Nuclear Forces), Gravity (Gravity), and Entropy (Entropy). The fifth is more hidden and responsible for various anomalous observations – it is called Thought (Intent). Light is associated with the element called fire, Material with the element of water, Gravity with the element of earth, Entropy with the element of air, and Thought with the element of will.
The Light force creates electric and magnetic fields, responsible for visible light, magnetism, and electricity. The Material force is responsible for the binding matter as substance to make things solid, and not pure force. Gravity is the force that draws these material objects toward one another. The Entropy force acts to mediate how the other forces can pull substances apart. Although light is far stronger than gravity, it tends to cancel itself out within large objects, so over the largest distances (on the scale of planets and galaxies), gravity tends to be the dominant force. The last force is Thought, the force and substance of Will - sapient Intent - which can manipulate the other forces, and thereby, the very fabric of reality. There is a sixth force, Colorless and void, that is the pure power of empyrea, and composes the other five, just without any identity attached to it - this force bows to no laws, and can manipulate the nature of reality itself.
These forces formed currents which swirled together together and formed eddies in the Aether, and multiple forces and elements blended to make patterns. These patterns, after untold aeons, woke into sapience. Later beings would call these patterns by many names, but for the sake of argument, we will call them the Primordials. As they began to orgiastically interact with one another, and learned to control the Aether around them, they formed reality (accidentally for the most part). Their energies merged with bits of this creation and birthed the Old Ones. The Primordials existed in this state until there was more real than there was Aether, and they became unable to walk the surface of their own creation for fear they would become trapped in its ever calcifying truth. In an attempt to regain freedom, they coalesced all energy, time, and matter into a single point. After an instant infinity, this exploded in an event we call The Big Bang.
A new reality was made, separate from the Aether, called the Material Plane. The Primordials could not enter it, and the Old Ones could touch it, but not exist there. Eventually, a little star called Sol Invictus would accrete enough matter to make Erathes.
Category:Cosmology