Darkness & Light

A summary of the cosmos and the creation of everything. Including the creation of The Prism and the Creation Wars between the celestials and eternal.

## In the Beginning...

At first there was only darkness. For the first couple of eons darkness wandered the cosmos alone creating an ever expanding universe of perfect order. Everything existed with a single purpose and all of existence was static, until one day something happened that darkness didn't expect. Light was born.

The first star ignited in the heart of this dark void and soon everything began to change. For the first time radiant energy was sent out into the darkness destroying the null energies that stifled creation, creating a protective sphere around the star.

However, despite the light, most of the universe continued to be made of null energy that would consume everything and prevent new stars from being born. All of existence would of continued like this until one day something else happened that darkness didn't expect. Darkness made a choice.

## The Prism

Unable to see the light but feeling it at its core, darkness ended the wandering it had always done and turned inwards striking at its own heart. These two forces of positive and negative energies met for the first time creating a colossal explosion of energy that burst forth in all directions forming a near endless realm of stars, color, and scattered matter. All at once the foundation for the cosmos as we know it today sprung into existence forming what is now known as The Prism.

Expanding like a three-dimensional diamond each of the eight planes of existence would push outwards from the core forming a ever-growing cube of reality. The outer planes of reality formed a barrier between the void and the inner part of the cosmos that would become the Astral Planes. At the core of the Astral Planes, where darkness first met light, the Material Planes would eventually form around the massive void left by the first star.

Each plane expanded polar opposite of another plane and the two strongest were the planes made from what remained of darkness and light. Though light had survived it was now contained in the Celestial Planes, only able to look out upon its creations through the stars it left behind. In the opposite plane darkness had been put into a deep slumber creating the Eternal Planes, a prison containing the negative null energies that snuffed out life, energy, and light.

Separating light and darkness from manipulating the Material Planes were the outer Spectra Planes, each their own collection of domains, represented by the colors of the cosmos and each containing their own fabric of reality and existence. At first only three of the eventual six planes ignited into life: the Affinity Planes, the Temporal Planes, and the Primal Planes. With them came the aspects of gravity, space-time, and creation.

As the Spectra Planes wrapped around the Material Planes they expanded out into the cosmos and became influenced by both darkness and light. For the first time lesser beings than the godlike stars came into existence, the Celestial and the Eternal. Powerful beings made by the stars under the guidance of darkness and light to protect them. With the creation of these protectors, the first life not born from light caused the last three Spectra Planes to ignite to life: the Ethereal Planes, the Cognitive Planes, and the Arcane Planes. Bring with them the aspects of order, destruction and energy, and free-will.

## The Creation Wars

As darkness created light, light created the stars, the stars created the celestials and eternals, soon these new beings began to craft worlds of their each within their own domain. Eventually there would be dozens and dozens of greater powers controlling all of creation. Each power had their own realm of stars and control over different aspects of reality, and soon they began to push up against each others domains and for the first and last time these higher powers went to war.

It was during this this time that the Material Plane began to be used by these warring powers, leading to the creation of the Elemental Planes, which would allow the first material worlds to form and organic sentient life to someday flourish. After endless destruction most of the celestials and eternals had fallen to each others hands and the only evidence of the epic struggle were the nebula leftover from the destroy domains of fallen stars.

Another eon would pass without the birth of a single new star until finally not one was born, but three.

Cygnus, Deneb, and Lith.

Born orbiting the black void leftover from the birth of light in the heart of the Material Plane.

## Exploring the Planes of the Prism

* **Material Planes:** Home of the core worlds. Including Boreal, and other main worlds in other game universes.
	+ **Elemental Planes:** Home of six orbiting demi-planes each a realm of the core elements: fire, stone, air, nature, water, and decay.
* **Astral Planes:** Home of the transient worlds, the veiled domains the separate the Material Planes from the Spectra Planes or alternate timelines.
* **Celestial Planes:** Home of light, life, and conjuration. Its domain begins with The Singers, a collection of the seven brightest stars in the sky, each accompanied by other lesser stars, representing the Seven Singers and their songbirds.
* **Eternal Planes:** Home of darkness, death, null and necromancy. Its domain begins with the Dark Heart and is associated with a period of surreal darkness on material worlds that are located to close, its procession is marked by the only dark starless void in the night sky. Home to the Eight Elders.
* **Arcane Planes:** Home of fire, energy, destruction, and evocation. Its domain begins with the Burning Ash nebula and is ruled in conflict by the four deities of the natural elements: fire, air, stone, water; These deities, known only as The Aspects were also the creators and protectors of the Elemental Planes.
* **Primal Planes:** Home of nature, creation, and transmutation. Its domain begins with an interwoven wisps of dull green dust with a white mist-like cloud at its center, its procession begins subtlety as most of its domains remained intact after the nebula. It is a realm of Twelve Kingdoms each ruled by Guardian Beasts, a power being that represents one of the twelve aspects of nature and were once guardian of innocent life.
* **Affinity Planes:** Home of stone, gravity, force, and abjuration. Its domain begins with The Affinity, a large star cluster and along its procession all the stars are drawn close to each other forming spirals around the largest. It is home to four larger domains called The Tethers, each representing the interactions of the cosmos: gravity, electromagnetism, force (strong), and flow (weak).
* **Cognitive Planes:** Home of water, intuition, free-will, and enchantment. Its domain begins with The Wonder, a brilliant blue cloud of dust with rips of red light erupting away from a faded blue star. It is the home of the Twelve Verdicts, once omnipotent guardians leftover from the Creation Wars who judge entire planets for their misdeeds, now shells of their former power.
* **Ethereal Planes:** Home of air, lightning, order, and illusion. Its domain begins with The Scales, a eerily symmetrical trinity-circled golden nebula. It is the home of the Exiles, wandering celestials (or eternals) who grew weary of war and went into self exile. Their realms are ruled by strict laws and all outsiders are considered renegades that must be brought to justice.
* **Temporal Planes:** Home of time, decay, chaos, and divination. Its domain begins with the Eye of God, a massive rainbow eye-shaped nebula that feels like it sees right through you. Its processes through ever changing constellations that lessen and lessen as it rotates into the darkness that comes with the next procession. It is home of the Two-Tens Fates, the ten pairs of timekeepers who record The Codex, a massive collection of all the significant moments for all life and existence. They are sworn protectors of the Axis.