Titan War

The Titan War was a conflict that happened some time after the God War. This conflict was a direct result of the God War and saw the Eternal Deities battling against the Titans, a group of elemental monsters born of the Aeons. To defeat the elementals, Malachite would challenge his fellow deities to build a race of mortal capable of defeating the monsters for themselves.

**Birth of the Titans**

To defeat the Undead Gods, two Eternals (Indriss and Aurum) took the power of Malachite known as the Aeons and used it to craft weaponry. Harnessing such impossible power was a task that solely Malachite could do without ramifications. Born of this process came the *Titans*, elemental beings bent on devouring the universe. The titans numbered four, each holding domain over a different element. They were:

**Leviathan,** titan of Water

**Tempest,** titan of Air

**Phoenix**, titan of Fire

**Zaratan**, titan of Earth

**Preparing for War**

While most of the gods prepared for battle, Malachite stepped in and stopped them. Instead, the God of Balance instructed the Eternals to unite and forge new species to inhabit the material plane. No single race yet inhabited the plane, and Malachite saw this as an opportunity to determine what should be its first denizen and to create something capable of carving out its own solutions. Malachite had just finished fighting the Undead Gods and had learned much from them. Their world had been destroyed by deities who sought to solve all the universe's problems on their own, and Malachite would not allow the same fate to befall its world.

**The Contest of Creation**

Many of the Eternals would craft their own mortal races to venture to the Material and defeat the titans. Feyna would offer the Grovekings, immense beings of stone and wood. Orcul would spend hours in his workshop to present the Hecatoncheires, hundred-handed warriors. Ultimately the decision would come down to two species. The first were the Illithid, a product of Eqdohr and Indriss. These beings possessed incredible intelligence and many of the deities believed the Illithid would conjure a solution to the Titans. The second creation were the Giants, a race of powerful, courageous humanoids. As the council of Eternals drew, the magnificent creation of Aurum and Waatrayn won the day.

**The First Battle**

And so the battle began, as the Giants were sent to the Material to defeat the Titans. Quickly, the giants began to adapt to the elemental world, absorbing portions of it into themselves for magic and forgery. The Titans witnessed the arrival of the giants and began their assault from all corners of the earth. Clans of giants tackled the titan of water, blasting seas and oceans into existence. The titan of fire was dragged across the earth's surface, searing deserts to life. The battle would continue until most of the Titans were subdued, but at this point the giants learned their enemy could not be killed outright. Something would need to be done to entrap these elemental scourges, and so the Eternals looked looked to the Illithid for an answer.

**Primos and the Four Rings**

The Illithid had been imbued with knowledge of the infinite cosmos, and searched for an answer. It was within their calculations that they determined a plausible solution in the form of Primos. Primos had been a gift to Malachite by the Genkiddion, as congratulations for its defeat of the Undead Gods. Primos was a sentient set of rings that protected the universe from external threats. As gatekeeper to the planar cosmos, Primos' rings were capable of policing all forms of magic and might. In the time since its arrival, Primos had simply been tasked with keeping the newly blossoming planes at bay, preventing them from spreading too far or overlapping too deep.

The Eternals arrived before Primos, requesting four of its rings to trap the Titans. Primos was a mechanical entity, thinking only in logic. It offered a trade, requesting the servitude of the Illithid to make up for the loss of the rings. Malachite agreed (a decision that would come to spell great harm to not only the universe, but the multiverse as well) and the Illithid became one with Primos.

**The Elemental Plates**

Primos expunged the four rings to the earth, where the Titans gathered them up and dragged the unconscious titans inside. Each titan was chained to the rings, which then sunk deep beneath the earth and held them in place. This would bring forth the creation of the elemental plates, four wide rings of pure, elemental power. Each of the titans would continue to live, giving birth to the genies and other races. For now the titans had been quelled, and the war was through.

**The Giant Migration**

In the aftermath of the Titan War, a great sadness began to sweep over the Giants. Indriss had given them such great wisdom that the Giants could see they were but tools to the gods. Growing in frustration, many of the Giant clans would migrate away from the Material Plane in search of new homes. Others of their race would simply lay down their arms for all eternity. Many legends and myths would come from the giants and their children, such as the story of the Gilead or the primordial behemoths known as Goliaths.