World History

What came before was nothing. What came after was everything. The goddess Maia, mother of mothers, gave birth to the world and in it, poured all of creation.

## The Beginning

### Maia creates the world, but finds it empty. She then gives birth to the gods to keep her company, deities either coming directly from her, or formed from things she created.

* *“After Maia created life, she created death, for all things must come to an end, then she created \*\* to make the seasons, the ground and grass we walk on, and the food in which we eat, then she created love, so all the creatures of Arilyan could thrive and create more life, then came knowledge, so they could teach the living of all the wonders of the world. Next was war, for to have peace must come the battle. Then she created magic, the keeper between the mortal and sprit realm, and to gift those who deserved the power of such gifts, and lastly, Time, to set everything into motion.”*

### Original Gods

* Diarmuid
* Tempest
* Derk
* Keto
* Arcana
* Deimos
* Luthian
* Time

### During this time, she placed the first three species upon the earth.

* Granthrows :: the first granthrows created were the first royals and Maia’s dearest creation. Back then, they were the primal granthrow we know only as mutational callbacks today.
* Granthrax :: A passion project Maia created to live and remember all that happened on the earth.
* Kerual :: Made in the image of Arcana, created since the other two species needed a more playful cousin.
* Built the veil as a way for creatures to pass from one life to the next, and with this came magic.

## The Golden Age of Maia

* Realized there were more jobs than she had gods for, created a second set of gods.
* Created lesser gods to assist with this.
* Maia filled the rest of the world with the other species.
* Surprised to find humans suddenly walking about. Found that they came about on their own, didn’t mind them at first, but found them to be greedier than she was ready for.
* A very peaceful, bountiful time, started the spread of hybrids.

## The Furor

* The first age of peace came to an abrupt end when humans began to become more intelligent. They started to become a bigger threat to the deities at this time.
* Kidnapped her creations to try and take their magic.
* Succeeded in capturing gods and pulling their power, gave humans more power.
* Some of the gods at this time decided they wanted more power, thinking they could stop the threat if Maia gave up power or demoted some of her original gods.
* Some of the lesser gods even began to steal power from the greater gods, something Maia couldn’t abide.
* After humans killed an entire pack, and accessed a portion of the Veil, Maia had enough. She cut the mortal world off from the Veil, stopping any and all grans from passing on to their next life and stopped the gods from visiting mortals.

## The Forgotten Time

* Cut off from magic, both humans and grans began to forget.
* It took several generations, and during this time, all productivity stopped within the animals of Arilyan. Packs became smaller, and only the royals held on to their culture.
* Humans quickly forgot about the veil, perhaps being detached from it caused them to lose their memories, but they began seeing animals as nothing more than animals, not sources of magic.
* At this time, Maia began to cut some of the lesser gods loose, and assigned jobs to prevent chaos.
* Over the course of the hundred years between the veil closing and reopening, Maia threw many lesser gods out, leaving them to wander Arilyan.
* This is the time MANY of the lesser gods fell. Very much a “cast out of heaven” scenario, where they were forbidden to ever step foot in the veil as an immortal and were stripped of their powers.
* Luthian was given the job of watching over the Veil, and more death deities were created as well to keep peace between the spirits that needed to linger while the Veil was closed.
* Lasted for a hundred years, to the point where the only creatures that could remember the gods were the thraxes and the royals with their "divine right," though most lost the true meaning of the title.

The Rebuilding

* Maia took a peek behind the veil and realized that the creatures she loved and created were becoming nothing but mindless animals without their ability to reincarnate, and decided to reconnect with the world.
* She opened the veil, restarting the reincarnation cycle, and opening the minds of her creatures to begin learning once more.
* Also the time that magic came back into the world and all Arilyan species realized they could connect back with their chosen deities.
* The gods announced their presence seven years after the veil reopened, and now granthrows are back on the path to becoming intelligent again.
* Humans are responding with either fear or wonder, yet they haven’t began to cause problems again
* Yet….