Timeline

### The Universe

Within the Oowahniverse, the Universe is not a place; rather, it is a concept denoting the intrinsic nature of the metaphysical and its apparent desire to bring about the existence of existence. It is often described as a physical place, but it is not.

### The Beginning

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The Time Before Time

* The Void manifests. There is only the Void.
* After untold eternities, the Void stirs. It spends some further aeons pondering its existence. While doing so it reaches out, testing its limits (of which there are none). It discovers there is nothing beyond itself.

~100 billion years ago:

The Forgotten Battle

* Perhaps because the Void achieved some semblance of loneliness without understanding what it is to be alone, or perhaps because the Universe abhors a vacuum, there is turmoil and change. Chaos emerges.
* As a result of the materialization of Chaos into the Universe, Order is borne of the Void, for without order there can be no chaos.
* Order immediately sets about bringing form to the Void, creating the first reality.
* Chaos, seeing the works of Order and despairing at its own abilities, seeks to destroy all that Order has wrought.
* Beginning of the Forgotten Battle.
* The two are caught in an inexorable cycle, with Order creating new realities over and over, only to have them shattered each time by Chaos.
* After an eternity, Order begins to understand that their battle can never end as long as they continue in this manner.
* Keeping its plans hidden from Chaos, Order decides to use the vastness of the Void to seek out an end to the eternal struggle. Pouring its own essence into the Void, Order brings an entirely different reality into existence - a new entity.
* This new being is tasked by Order to search the Universe for some end to the battle with Chaos, whether for ill or good.
* The entity sets out, pulling the shape of reality into its wake. Being a form of Order, this effect ripples outward into the Void, across the Universe, and Time begins.

10 billion years ago:

The Primordial Chaos

* Chaos becomes aware of Order's plan. Worried that Time may bring about an end to the Forgotten Battle, and consequentially, its own existence, Chaos attempts to copy Order's reality.
* Being mercurial by nature, Chaos' new reality is warped and unstable, and begins to seep and merge into Order's Reality.
* Three new entities emerge from the resultant disarray. Primordial and unpredictable, they wreak havoc on the Universe.
* Order attempts to stem the flow of the chaotic reality into his own. Two additional entities are brought into existence, again formed from Order's own essence. They are tasked with subduing the three primordial beings while Order continues the Forgotten Battle with Chaos.
* The Elemental Wars begin. For some time the primordial forces of both sides do brutal battle with one another across reality.
* The destruction the war causes begins to accumulate. This gathering of primeval essence finally grows to a point where it can no longer be contained, and a wave of elemental potential erupts into the Void.
* For roughly ten billion years, the elemental wave spreads out across the universe, saturating every aspect of it.

1 billion years ago:

The Primordial Chaos

* The wave finally coalesces, and the material realm is created by its energies. The Elemental Wars come to an abrupt end as both sides are subdued and left weakened by the deluge of intense power.
* The five primordials are given form themselves by the elemental wave: Flame, Frost, Earth, Air, and Water. In the interest of preserving reality, Chaos and Order both agree to allow the primordial elements free reign across the material realm.
* Working together and using their newly acquired material power, the elementals create a home for themselves in the center of their realm.
* While Chaos and Order are able to perceive and influence the material realm, they are not able to directly access it for themselves.

500 million years ago:

The Wild Age