Creation

The first sentient creatures in the universe came to be known as the Seeders. The Seeders evolved on a world that spontaneously developed a world crystal.

A highly magical people the Seeders eventually developed space travel and went into the multiverse seeking other life. After millennia of unsuccessful searching the Seeders decided to help life along a little. The Seeders developed magitech that allowed them to plant a world crystal in the core of a suitable planet (or even in orbit around a suitable star system that would be able to accrete a planet around the crystal).

Daugveidu is one such seeded world.

Unbeknown to the Seeders a second race spontaneously evolved in the multiverse, the Phage. The Phage evolved on a planet with no world crystal, their world held no magic. The Phage also eventually made it into space and began to explore the multiverse using pure technology.

The Phage came across seeded worlds in their exploration and became curious as to how so many worlds evolved such similar forms of life when no other life (except the Phage themselves) seemed to have emerged in the multiverse. Coming across a seeded world that had not yet developed sentient life they decided to colonise the planet.

From here the Phage learned about the world crystals and developed methods to locate other seeded worlds. The Phage learned to utilise the energies emitted by the world crystals. The Phage made great technological leaps, but then the Seeders returned to check on this world. The Seeders were horrified by the Phage and basically destroyed the planet. The Phage were however a spacegoing race and so were not wiped out in this strike. So began the war between the Seeders and the Phage.

The Phage proceeded to hunt down and destroy the Seekers. The Phage had a couple of advantages that made this viable. They were capable of tracking the Seeders due to their reliance on World Crystal magics to drive their magitech, and, the Phage developed FTL drives while the Seeders did not. The Phage ultimately defeated the Seeders and wiped their race from the multiverse. Only then did they discover that the seeded worlds were all capable of producing more of the seeder race if given enough time to evolve.

The Phage then decided to destroy all the seeded worlds and went forth to seek them out. The Phage discovered that their tech was not able to destroy actual world crystals. They could kill all life on the planet and strip it back to just the world crystal, but remarkably quickly the world crystal would reaccrete a planetary surface and life would return. This and the near infinite number of seeded worlds combined to make this an unwinnable war for the Phage.

The Phage developed a plan to corrupt the world crystals, if they could not be destroyed then at least they could be defiled and ultimately devoured. They engineered the Slug, a unsurprisingly slug like creature that would penetrate a seeded world and then burrow into the world crystal, corrupting it and the world to which it was core. The Slugs may not be fast but they are capable of taking over a world crystal and then consuming it.

The Phage, even now are travelling the multiverse, locating seeded worlds and infecting them with a slug. Daugveidu is one such world.