The Creation of Eldaron

## The Era of the First

At the dawn of time, Eldaron was a realm of existences in nothingness; all the elements of reality flowed and existed, yet no form existed. The primal forces existed in endless, violent conflict. Elementals, angels, demons, devils, demodands, inevitables, yugoloths, slaads, nature spirits, fey, guardinals, and dragons all competed to enact their various wills on the endless, infinite universe. And in the centre of it all, was the First, a being omniscient yet thoughtless, omnipotent yet inert, the confluence of all divine power in reality.

### The Birth of Supreme Divinity

The universe was soon to be given shape and form; inside the First, two aspects were linked in purpose. These were Hallistar, God of Creativity, and Fandalgorn, God of Knowledge. Hallistar had the creativity to devise emergence but not the knowledge to enact it; Fandalgorn had the knowledge to emerge from the First, but not the creativity for the idea to occur to him. The two divine aspects felt drawn to each other, conspired and then emerged into reality, Fandalgorn first; they were no longer divine aspects, instead beings in their own right. The two Supreme Deities were immediately subjected to the onslaught of the primal forces of reality, leading to the emergence of two more Supreme Deities: Noe and Shendali. Noe, Goddess of Conflict, was drawn to the conflict, feeding on it, empowered by it. She emerged and greeted her fellow Supreme Deities, before turning on their harassers. The primal forces did not know what mistake they made, attacking Noe; they were unaware that their conflict with her merely strengthened her and her domination of them. Shendali, Goddess of Life, emerged shortly after Noe, her faint awareness of the world outside, being given form, calling to her. A new age had dawned, the four 'siblings' uniting together to establish divine supremacy over reality.

### The Forming of the Planes

Noe had beaten back all the primal forces; they had been subjugated by her divine might. The Supreme Deities agreed that Eldaron must be given form to be able to have purpose and meaning. Hallistar formed infinite planes for each of the primal forces to exist in:

* Mount Celestia, plane of the angels
* Bytopia, plane of the guardinals (hollyphants, couatls, unicorns, pegasis, ki-rin etc. - Not the Forgotten Realms Guardinals)
* The Beastlands, plane of the nature spirits
* Arborea, plane of the fey
* Ysgard, plane of the copper, brass, crystal, and moonstone dragons
* Limbo, plane of the slaads
* Pandemonium, plane of the red, white, black, and topaz dragons
* The Abyss, plane of the demons
* Carceri, plane of the demodands
* Gehenna, plane of the yugoloths
* The Nine Hells, plane of the devils
* Acheron, plane of the blue, green, amethyst, and sapphire dragons
* Mechanus, plane of the inevitables
* Arcadia, plane of the gold, silver, bronze, and emerald dragons
* The Elemental Plane of Fire, plane of fire elementals
* The Elemental Plane of Air, plane of air elementals
* The Elemental Plane of Water, plane of water elementals
* The Elemental Plane of Earth, plane of earth elementals

The Astral Plane was created as a method to travel between the planes. Hallistar also made a plane for Shendali, the Material Plane, to act as home for her mortal creations, with the Ethereal plane surrounding it to protect it from the Elemental Planes that encompassed it. Shendali populated the realm with primitive mortal life, and the universe prospered.

### The Madness of Fandalgorn

An eternity passed, the universe in a peaceful stagnation; the eon ended abruptly, its cause unknown. The First of the First, The Omniscient Aspect, Supreme Deity of Knowledge, Fandalgorn began to devastate the Material Plane, slaying each and every mortal being he could. Mortal life would have been all but destroyed in Shendali had not intervened, her endless love for her creations fuelling an indomitable rage at Fandalgorn. With Noe and Hallistar refusing to intervene, the battle raged on for millions of millennia, until the victor had slew the defeated; Fandalgorn's madness had been ended, as his divine form rested in the void between the planes. Shendali had been grievously injured in the battle, however, as Fandalgorn had severed Shendali's divine connection to her creations. No more could the Goddess speak to her creations. The universe shuddered; there was a discrepancy, soon to be corrected.

## The Divine Explosion

### The Birth of Wydrivil

Fandalgorn had died, yet death had not been created yet. The final of the Supreme Deities, Wydrivil, Deity of Death, emerged from the First, and Fandalgorn's existence had finally reached its end. Wydrivil's emergence did not just cause the death of Fandalgorn, however; the First burst into an explosion of divine energy. The divine energy was able to coalesce into the Greater Deities and Lesser Deities.

Hallistar formed two more planes to accommodate for this occurrence; Elysium, a plane for all good entities and the spirits of exceptionally good mortals, and Hades, it's evil counterpart.

### The Pantheon of Kalix

In a small corner of the universe, two newly-born Greater Deities met. Alissiya saw Kalix and was awestruck by her majesty, vowing to protect her till death. Kalix anointed Alissiya as Shieldmaiden of Kalix, and they set about forming the Pantheon of Kalix. Alissiya gathered Lesser Deities loyal to the cause, such as Zeyack, and began forcing Greater and Lesser Deities to declare allegiance to Kalix as The Divine Queen, Monarch of All the Universe. Seeking to eventually take control from the Supreme Deities, Kalix next turned to Vi, the New God of Knowledge, who's divine essence had coalesced on Fandalgorn's corpse and been infused with his divinity. Kalix believed that Vi, the most divine of the Greater Deities, could help her against the Supreme Deities, but was fearful that Fandalgorn's madness could form in Vi's mind. However, Vi has not succumb to the same madness as Fandalgorn, even with his desperate research to discover the cause of his predecessor's insanity.

Kalix and her Pantheon met with the remaining Supreme Deities. They struck an accord; the Supreme Deities would leave the rulership of Eldaron to Kalix and her Pantheon. Shendali, feeling crushing guilt for the destruction she caused during her battle with Fandalgorn, exiled herself. Hallistar and Noe left together, their current location unknown. Wydrivil disappeared, fading into the void between the planes, absent yet still felt, as the presence of death will always be felt in the cycle of existence.