Third Age

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Universe 69 | Chegwin | The Divine | Other Worlds

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## Yggdrasil

Gaia wished to create a realm for those like her, to do so, she created a great Seed. From this seed, sprouted a great tree. The roots formed into a world of sorts. Upon the Tree's boughs, she placed a realm for each of Aspect. Each realm, accessible only to the most powerful entity representing each Primal Aspect.

Residence conveyed a greater connection to their Aspect across creation. Upon the world from which Yggdrasil now grew, she placed a great forge, capable of creating the most powerful arms and armor in the universe.

At the top of the tree, Gaia placed the source of the River Styxx, the river of Limbo, flowing with the souls of those who followed no god, and had no afterlife to go to. Upon this river she placed the most powerful enchantments, drawing their power from the Realms of each Aspect. The river flowed through each of the Aspectual Domains, over the small world below Yggsdrasil, and into the Afterlife beneath.

## The Second World

After Yggdrasil, Gaia created the Second World. Upon this world she exclusively placed mortals. She enchanted the world with safeguards, preventing access by the Apects, Gods and even their Immortal Servants. The mortals of this world grew up without any gods, yet, found a reason to attribute divinity to the natural world around them. Each of the cultures on this world, attributed divinity in their own way. From this world, many new divines were born, uniquely able to access this world, unlike all of Godly Tribes before them. Among the Gods of this World, Were Kurtlemak, Corellon Larethian, Heironeous, Chauntea, Shar, and The Raven Queen.

With time, the Mortals learned to harness what they called magika, using the ley lines woven across creation by Whekkus. They became the first practioners of magic, and would eventually create most of the spells in use across the universe. In time a great leader rose from first world, born upon a ley nexus on the Second World, Mystra excelled at all forms of magika, becoming the more powerful than the next 20 magika users combined. She learned of a very special spell, Apotheosis.

## Usurping Magic

During the third age, the Primal Aspect of Magic came to a sudden and brutal end at the hands of two of his most powerful servants. Aspirants to the power that Whekkus wielded, both Korag Luut and Fangrel, had machinations on the power that they saw their master wielding, with little care for the impact that this would have on the cosmo's as a whole.

The Divinity that Whekkus had been granted during the First Age was available for another to take, but only one knew the spell to do it. His power was scattered to his lieutenants, and their followers. However, his divinity, was sundered from his form just before Mystra cast Apotheosis for the first time. Doing so destroyed her mortal form, but she was able to acquire all of Whekkus' divinity, and the powers of the Primal Aspect of Magic.

Seeing what she had done, Mystra put into place magical safeguards, intended to prevent exactly what she had done. As Mystra codified much of the magical restrictions in play today, the Third Age (Magic).

Followed By: Fourth Age