First Age

The First Age began with the Creation of Lumoris, and ended with Armaya's Void Tear. This was the golden age of the Pantheon and its Origin Gods.

## Timeline

### 0 F.A.

Lumoris takes its first breath. The Pantheon creates a divine Barrier of incredible strength around Lumoris, using much of their power. This Barrier keeps the Void out, and enables the Pantheon to focus on creation.

Yarsenaug, having declared himself King, rules over Lumoris. Fire, Father, King.

UNSORTED EVENTS

The Heart, through exposure to the Ai'Ad and their creations, begins to solidify, much as the Ai'Ad once had. It becomes Aqu, God of Nothing. Aqu is reviled by the Pantheon, his prison made stronger, for fear of what he might do.

Yarsenaug grows paranoid. He convinces the other Gods to create minions. He tells them it is to flex their ability to create, though in truth, he seeks soldiers and weapons against the Void. After all, in the Void larger Void Gods were accompanied by smaller ones, thousands of smaller Void spirits following larger ones, like schools of fish.

The Gods create Spirits in the land that would become Lashaar, each God creating something similar to themselves. These Spirits, being Elementals and other such beings, are impressive, sometimes even sentient. But they lack the spark Yarsenaug desires. Although they can serve for his purposes, they do not create much on their own, do not think much. They would only be as useful as the minor Void Spirits, but lacked the mind to overcome. The Gods are amused for a time with their creations.

Armaya, against the orders of the pantheon, sneaks into this prison regularly to converse with Aqu, and the two become friends. Through their interactions, Armaya wonders if perhaps things are good the way they are. Maybe, Aqu will let them keep their world, after they have restored him to the heart.

Armaya raises the idea of possibly returning the Heart to the other Origin Gods, and is brutally put down by Aulia. The Pantheon fears that if the returned the Heart, Grandfather would punish them. Through this conversation, the Pantheon learns of Armaya's secret meetings with Aqu, and punishes her, banning her from meeting with him again. She mourns the suffering the Ai'Ad have caused the Xa'Nad and the Void as a whole. Ossarial openly disapproves of the way the Pantheon handled this. Although she doesn't agree with Armaya, she thinks the others shouldn't have been as callous to her. She helps Armaya recover.

For the next attempt, Yarsenaug tells the Gods to work together. Their second attempt sees, through divine cooperation, the Gods make something inspired by their collective visage. The Gods make the Elves. The first Elves are as white as snow, lacking completely in hair. They seem to be a success, for they think, feel, and build. They can make cities and armies, weapons and rulers, and do as Yarsenaug wills. The Other Gods, not yet caught on to mortals as weapons, simply view the Elves as beautiful and impressive. Ossarial in particular is fond of them.

Elven civilization emerges. Yet, as this happens, Yarsenaug is left unsatisfied. The Elves, though capable of war and civilization, and standing against the Void, do not change. They are immortal and uncompromising, made to be exactly one thing, and remaining as that one thing. They are rigid, unchanging, unadaptive. The Void is ever-changing, at least as it is now, rampant and mad. Although the Elves may stand well against the Void, they will not adapt to all the threats the Void can pose. They will eventually lose. Additionally, as the Elves are made neutrally, they do not exclusively serve Yarsenaug, and cannot be made to. Something the Fire God views as increasingly necessary, as he trusts his fellow Gods less. Additionally, as the Elven population grows larger, they strain nature, which upsets Kiulveel greatly.

Morezhus, God of Death, proposes a solution. Although the bodies of Elves could be broken and thus they would cease, their immortality makes their presence a burden on the world. Based off Elves, Morezhus, Father of Man, creates Humans. These first humans are shorter than Elves, their skin is as black as night, and their hair pure white, inspired by the colors of Morezhus. Humans are as capable of building and warring as Elves, but can also adapt rapidly, and importantly to Yarsenaug, be molded. They can be whatever the Gods will them to be. The Gods are all pleased by this, and begin to experiment with Humanity. The Gods are all pleased.

Human civilization emerges in Karzwaba, based on Morezhus' original humans. Karzwaba in the future will remain proud of this, though in time they forget the exact truth of it. in the future they will claim to be the first men, and thus rulers of the world.

Human civilization emerges elsewhere, as the other Gods alter humanity to their own desires and spread them out.

Yarsenaug decrees the Elves to be no longer useful, and abandons them, much to the disaproval of other gods, such as Ossarial. Ossarial claims that the goal of the Ai'Ad's endeavor was to create, to take joy in creation. Not to make more weapons, as it is clear the Gods sought to do when they tried to replace the elves. Yarsenaug reveals that he lied. The resulting argument sees Ossarial forced out of Lumoris for good. Although Armaya tries to defend her friend, the Pantheon is firm, and Ossarial leaves.

Although Man is indeed moldable, they are less able to dedicate themselves solely to Godly direction. They want for more, change more than their Elven predecessors. Disapproving of Man's disobedience, Yarsenaug creates the Ilythrians to guide them. The golden-skinned Ilythrians are humans altered to fit the visage of the God of Fire and Kings. Yarsenaug helps the Ilythrians establish their first city, Rythririum on the continent of Ilythria. and are meant to be custodians and emissaries, guiding the world as the Pantheon wills. To rule the Ilythrians, Yarsenaug personally creates Oventi I, King-Custodian of Ilythria.

Mankind and the Elves war against eachother to the amusement of the Gods.

Armaya, God of Dreams, personally witnesses the suffering of mortals via their dreams. Such prolonged exposure to suffering weakens her sanity, and so Armaya begins to dwell, ever more intently, upon her previous desire to 'undo' what the Ai'Ad had done. In this state, she creates the Eyeless Prophet, an immortal being capable of seeing into the future. He tells her that Aqu must be brought to the Heartchamber and killed, so that he can properly reform into the Heart of old, and the Void can return to its original equilibrium. Distressed by this revelation, Armaya wanders ever closer to the Void, deep in thought. As she does this however, her mind is touched through the Barrier by the influence of Yac'Churmhaatha, the Void God of Madness. Slowly, she begins a descent into insanity.

The Elves construct the first of their floating cities and begin travelling the seas.

The Dwarves are made.

The Dwarves establish their first hold, Karan Zlato.

A wandering void being, known as Marangrus, Deity of Magic, bestows mortals with the gift of magic, going behind the backs of the other deities.  As punishment, he is forced to help mortals understand it, and create rules for the force he has unleashed.  His interference creates a field of magic around the world, known as the Aesi Culsn.  It soon developed into what can only be described as a parallel reality, although many simply refer to it as the “Realm of Power”.

Ossarial creates her own planet, one carrying her own name.

Yarsenaug seeks new ideas in creating weapons against the Void. Man serves well, but not well enough, for they lack the divine power he wields, and although the union of Void Gods could make produce more Void Gods, Yarsenaug did not have direct control of them. Ai'Ad could be good allies, but they made for poor subjects, and their influences on Man's various cultures were heavy. So Yarsenaug sought better ideas. Eventually, Yarsenaug decides that the ultimate weapon would be not Void or mortal, but both. Divinely powerful, but humanly malleable and obedient.

Yarsenaug's eye is caught by Samica, Princess of Ilythria as she attends a divine festival to honor Yarsenaug. The God of Flame abducts and forces himself upon Samica. The human's mortal body and mind were unable to survive such contact with a Void God, and so her mind was cleaved in two, her body burned almost unrecognizably. The mix of her agony and despair, and the raw essence of fire created the curse of Pyromancy, wounding Lumoris. From then on, certain unfortunate souls would be born as Pyromancer, wielding a cursed, uncontrollable fire. Despite the wounds to her body and mind, later that year Samica gave birth to a demigod son, Jenulus. She would die in the process. Jenulus would be the one and only true Demigod.

As Jenulus grew, he proved a dissapointment to his Father. Although Jenulus showed great power and potential, he resented his father, for Jenulus was born a Pyromancer, and through the flame he could feel the pain of his deceased mother. Jenulus' hate of his father grew as did his power, even as his Divine Father attempted to train and raise him.

Yarsenaug deems Jenulus a failure and abandons him.

Kiulveel crafts the Mantarii to protect the Natural Order.

After this point, all the other races begin to be made by respective Void Gods.

Lydaros makes the Ektmorans as gladiators. They are an attempt to embody the ultimate warriors, and they battle endlessly in arenas to appease their creator god.

Jenulus plots against his father and the Pantheon.

### 45,407,192 F.A.

Armaya, long-influenced by Yac'Churmhaatha, mourning the suffering of mortals, and long without friends, finally snaps. Armaya, out of a misguided desire to end the suffering of all, tears through the Barrier. In that moment, Armaya vanishes into the Void, and the Void comes pouring in, beginning the Second Age, the Age of Strife.