Ancients

The Ancients are the oldest beings in the plane and are often considered to be more concepts than actual living beings. This is because they are the Avatars of concept. The first of the ancients was a being referred to as Nothingness, Emptiness, Void, among many other things. In the time that there was only Nothing they created first the ancient of Space who was known as Aida among other names. Aida created the ancient of Time known as Chronos among other names and from there more and more ancients began to be created by the others.  The ancients were made by one another in a period of time in which Time meant little. The ancients did not live under a certain structure of leadership they simply all existed in harmony for a period. In this period, time itself was not as valued as a thousand years was as close to them as a minute. The ancients are credited with creating Anima as a sort of universal clay for creation as well as Orichalcum one of the Divine Minerals. It is suspected that Anima itself is the result of the creation of another Ancient though their name is unknown.

Aida grew bored in his time of traveling an endless world with nothing but other ancients simply floating and aimlessly looking for a goal in their life. It was not long before he proposed to the others an experiment of sorts and the first life, the Elven was created. The Elven were made in the image of the ancients, shapeless and with the power to create what they chose. The ancients grew enthralled with the Elven who crafted worlds by which new ancients had been born. Each planet formed by the Elven had an ancient formed to protect and direct it. The ancient of each planet served more as an observer for the planets in the beginning but everything for the ancients changed when war was brought to the Elven. See while the other ancients played and toyed with creation Nothingness waited and grew resentful of its creations. He created creatures and places that were hidden from the others. In an act of frustration and greed Nothingness crafted creatures in twisted images of the other ancients creations.

The realm that was created to hide from the others was treated as a shadow of the planes and could only be seen or accessed in the right circumstance. The shadow was always present unfortunately for the creations of the ancients. The war among the Elven became over resources and was driven by a similar envy that Nothingness held. He crafted in this moment the first of the sins and gave them to the Elven to make the fighting worse. His attempts however infected the other ancients giving them each aspects of the same sins. What was once a peaceful project between the ancients became a spiraling war filled history of bloodshed and distrust among the living beings made.  The ancients in this time also went to war with one another and entire planes of existence where destroyed as a casual mistake during the fighting. Many of the creations of the Elven and the creations of the Ancients themselves were shattered from times memory.

The fighting between the ancients became so serious that eventually the small percentage that were left sat down and came to an agreement that the enemy was Nothingness not each other. A small council was formed and for the first time in the ancients history they had leadership given to Aida the first of their kind. Aida recognized that Nothingness would return to continue to toy with them as they did with their own creations. It was decided that the majority of the ancients would begin their slumber at this time to prepare for the return of Nothing. Aida would remain awake for the remainder of his times serving as the watcher for his people. What Aida or the others had not anticipated would be the rise of the Elvens creations to eventually cause Nothing to return in full force. But that is a tale for another day.