Pre-darkness

The era of Pre-darkness is believed to be a period of time where the chaotic energies of the realm of Xaekla twisted and moulded together in a frenzied and uncontrolable state. It was the time of the Champion races that fought against the chaos with the divine power the gods gave them.

## History

Pre-darkness began before even the gods came to call the realm their domain when nothing but small creatures, so small one could not see them with the naked eye, were the only "creatures" that could survive. Then from the emptyness came the first exusians from their neighboring realms, looking to expand their territory. These gods were Zafrielia, Suhulous, Alavandra, the Psionic un Elementare, and (as some believe) Illimate.

### Creation of the Sun Myths

Zafrielia took from Xaekla a handful of chaos fire then dirt and from herself she plucked a strand of hair. Using the hair she wove the dirt and fire together with the dirt being the innercore that the fire was teathered to and the hair acting as a net to ensure the fire could not wander. With the sun made she placed it carefully among the near starless, dark sky and so it was the beginning of the first day.

Zafrielia happened upon the sun on the realm of Limbo where it sat at the center of the realm as a bright, hot, glowing orb that is believed to be the cause of limbos horrid atmosphere. She cradled the sun under her bosom as she traveled across the ether once more to the center of the known universe, nurturing its heat the whole way. She placed the sun there at the dark center of our realmspace and used her magic so that it could be seen from all realms, provided heat to all realms, and provide light to all realms. But not all the realms accepted Zafrielias light such as limbo and the seven hells.

### Chaos Taming

The Elementare were a collection of exusians that had a great deal of control over the elements due to their unique births. They seperated the elements from one another, bending and weaving them through and around the realm to make it easier to live within until they came upon a satisfactory end. Though the realm was still rife with chaos it was livable at least and the Elementare were tired so each rested beneath the world in cradles of their own element. Fyrarai, or fire, slept within the great volcano of daduian. Nero, or water, slept beneath the great waves of the idamo sea. Zeyla, or earth, slept within a bubbling pool of mud nearby their sibling Fyrarai. Finally, Aeras, or air, slept high within the sky in churning windstorm.

### The Champion Races Creation

In the time of old there were but six races that roamed the realm of Xaekla, one was made after another by the exusians in this order: gnomes, dwarves, fae, merfolk, dragons, and finally minotaur. No one was designed to be grander than the other but to simply serve a different purpose in the world. Gnomes were to be the intellecutals and inovators, dwarves the hardworking miners and masons, fae the benders of the elements, merfolk the people of the sea, and dragons the protectors of all others. The minotaur were the only of the champion races that was somewhat mistakenly made but they pursevered through the chaos days in their own bubbled nomadic tribes.

#### The Gnomes

The kingdoms of the gnomes, an inventive and quick-footed champion race, rose to prominence shortly after their initial creation. Their was greater safety in numbers and so tribes that were previously seperated would converge in massive cities made of brick, mud, and thatch. They were not rich or plentiful but they led lives of wonderous discovery, courious and adventurous they tamed the wild nature of the chaos without the aid of divine magics they would gain in later years but with intuitiveness instead. The were the creators of almost all golem races, using them as a force of protection against the danger of the world around them.

#### The Dwarves

Right after their creation the first empire of the great dwarves was created and named Vor Mouldar. It rested nestled within a mountainside and ever expanded inward as they mined aaway to the core of the world to harness the precious metals that allowed them to forge weapons and armor which they sold the gnomish kingdoms that neighbored them. Unintentionally or otherwise, the dwarves created several rock and earth spirits through their masterful skill of the forge and masonry. They, in fact, were the initial creators of smelting down materials like bronze into functional weapons and tools.

#### The Fae

Though they are a member of the champion races and were native to Xaekla this race had obsconded to the realm of Neraida during the time of the Cosmic war. Their remaining decendents are the elves who were once fae but after returning to Xaekla with its dampened magic they began evolving into something different entirely. The Fae's most notable achievements were the creation of various spirit races and creatures using their magic, almost all of which they took with them when they left.

#### The Merfolk

Created as the antithisis to everything else the gods had created, merfolk were extremely unique in appearance compared to their land-dwelling cousins. In addition they were extremely solitary, keeping to the waters as best they could despite their semi-aqautic adaptabilities.

#### The Dragons

The first of the dragons to be made was a mix of metallic and chromatic dragons. It's not known exactly which ones were of the first but there are theories that the red dragon was the first but was such a flop on the gods' fault that they had to make several others to combat them. The remaining dragons that were made stayed true to the purpose the gods gave them at least until it was no longer nessesary.

#### The Minotaur

The last of the champion races, the minotaur lived outside of standard society much like merfolk, living in nomadic tribes deep within the wilderness. They were masters of battle, hunting, and fishing with a keen eye for weapon crafting with bone. Despite being deemed a champion race during the time of the Cosmic war the minotaur joined the side of the betrayers and became known as one of the chaos races even though they were not created by the Betrayer gods themselves, at least not while they were Betrayers.

### Vor Mouldar is Founded

Vor Mouldar was the very first empire and stands even still to this day. It is a massive city deep within and beneath the mountain of Hagkangit, remaining as one of the major superpowers of the modern world with a hand in every game known to man from forging to agriculture.

### Kraul is Founded

A human kingdom on what is current day Nibar, it was destroyed during the cosmic war and its supposed library of mass rapore had gone with it.

### Beyond our Touch

The realms of the Farweb are created by the gods to act as a place of rest and respite where they could conduct their business with less fear of being killed by one of their creations because despite their nicknames of god, deity, and otherwise they are still mortal. On their own realms they are semi-immortal, more difficult to kill, and more powerful.

### Rise of Illa Everwon

The Chaos Mother, Keiraake, attends the taming feast with the other exusians to celebrate the Elementare's bending of the chaotic elements to make the world a more livable place. However, she does get to enjoy the feast as before she can a human mortal who wielded divine magics against the deity killed her. After this the human rose to the status of Exusian as the balance must be kept. Her name is Illa Everwon. Some believe that the Chaos Mother was not fully killed in this attack though but weakened and forced back into a full mortal, this alternate version of the goddess is worshipped by many within the wilds of the world.

The killing of Keiraake and rise of Illa Everone to the state of exusian marked the end of this age.