Ages

Time in the realms of Confluence can often be confusing for the immortal beings that seek to influence the Lesser Planes. For those within it however time has been neatly catagorised into a form they can understand even if it didn't strictly exist at the time. These Ages are further split up into the Eras. In total there are four Ages recorded by mortals, Primordial, Divine, Time, Ending.

#### Primordial Age

The universe as it's known began in a time before time. Legends differ on if the Divines simply created themselves, arrived from some distant unknowable place or if they were ascended mortals that had transported themselves through time. It was during this ancient time that the Divines not only established their own realms within Celestia but made contact with the Twin Hells, marking the start of the Bellum Aeternum.

It was at some point during this time that the Divines discovered the Elemental planes, smaller pocket realms that would come to be the foundations that the Lesser Planes would be constructed upon. It is said as well in this ancient time that the Divines were sworn to secrecy regarding something known as the Primordial Truth, a secret that could only be discussed with the assent of each of the Seven.

#### Divine Age

It was during the Divine Age that the construction and populating of the Lesser Planes began. Taking their focus off of waging the Bellum Aeternum the Divines came together to build a land where mortal lives could thrive and multiply, so that they might give a power through prayer to their godly creators, but also so that after death they would help supplement the numbers of the Greater Planes.

Each of the Divines had their own role to play in the coming creation. Almaril was the grand architect, planning how to weave not only the elemental planes together but how to tie the coming Lesser Planes to the Greater Planes. The Masked Man devised the fault lines and strong points, so energy and arcana would flow correctly and the planes would not simply collapse under their own weight. Brighteye the Silveraxe bound and chained the elemental planes and rose them together into one, whilst ensuring everything was in the correct place as designed. Orlinus wrapped the sea and skies together, ensuring that creatures could thrive, drink and breath freely without concern of the elements breaking free of their bindings. Vhaktis populated the world with beasts and monsters, so that mortal kind would know plenty and challenge in equal measure. Myrell introduced to the world the subtle works of nature, flowers and trees, birdsong and waterfalls, so that mortal kind would not stagnate or become docile. Finally, the Kindred Flesh wove into the world the inherent desire to grow, take new things into oneself and care for others in equal measures as despising them, bringing conflict and civility into the newly formed world of mortals.

#### Age of Time

As the Divines finished creating the material plane they discovered almost by accident they had created a pair of parallel realms, the nascent Otherland and Spirit Realm, light and life against shadow and death. These two realms helped to supplement the material realm as well as extend their own influences just as it influenced them back.

Satisfied with their creation and that it wouldn't simply collapse on itself they once more returned to Celestia, leaving their celestial servants behind to tend to it. Over time these individuals would mingle and change, creating mortal offspring which would become the first aasimar, fae and starspawn. In time these races would continue to divert and intermingle, influencing each other and bringing forth new races of their own, before long each of the three realms was populated with mortals of every shape and size beyond imagining.

With the steady rise of mortal civilisation, the growth and fall of their own realms and powers, they began to learn, grow, understand and study. Some sought harmony with others and the world around them, others still sought destruction and domination. To the Divines who watched and returned as their whims dictated it meant nothing one way or another, that mortals lived, died and passed into the Greater Planes was all that they were required to do, the rest was up to them and however their godly masters decided to intervene in their lives. As the mortal races continued to spread and change they began to record time in an organised fashion, starting the recording of Eras to mark the passing of momentous events that changed the face of the world.

#### Age of Ending

The final age yet to come, none know when it will begin, only that once the Silent Throne is sat will mark the last first day of the Age of Ending. It is believed that the mortal races will fall into anarchy and madness as a shadow sweeps the land, mortal kind will be doomed to watch their world unravelling and the Divines will war with each other until nothing remains.