The Days of Fury

The potentially eons-long genesis of Altheris, and the time of the chaotic direct rulership of the primal and divine forces of the planet. The first sentient races, called the Children of Fury are said to have been hewn from the forces of the planet during this time - these progenitors of the more modern races of Talus would eventually go on to lose their direct connections to their gods and become mortals in the Kenosis.

* **Period of Time:** +7,000 years
* **Also referred to as:** The First Age

## The Dawn Primordial: the Creation of Altheris

+ Planet is created, if not populated

+ The First Altheris gods are made

+ The gods immediately begin to fracture into different ideas about how to go about making Altheris

## The Fury

+ The Makers begin to shape Altheris with their individual aspects, but their influence is overloaded by Altheris's mana-rich leylines. Creates the Elementals and their ilk, who ravage the world even as the Titans continue to create.

+ The Dragons are made as Altheris' first intelligent species of magic to fight back against the Elementals as the Titans and gods finish preparing the world for the Children of Fury

+ The Children of Fury are made and begin to populate the world

+ The Children of Fury are nearly wiped out from the devastation caused by the wars between the sides of Chaos and Order - particularly the gods who stood for one side or the other

+ The Titan Makers intervene one last time, banishing most of the gods and elementals from interacting with Altheris directly with the Everpact

## The Kenosis

The Great Ordering of Altheris. After the wild abandon and the seemingly endless cycles of creation and destruction enacted by the gods and powers of Altheris, Balfix realized that his fellow gods' way of directly influencing the world was unstable and threatened the planet's very foundations. With difficulty, he rallied the other more chaotic or aloof Primordial Titans together to consider how best to handle the issues of the gods' direct influence, as well as the wanton destruction of the immortal Children of Fury.

### Mortality

Uladra, who had yet to contribute to the Children, introduced a new idea: instead of making another race, she would instead grant all of the existing Children with mortality - the ability to die through age, instead of slaughter. This sentiment was at first strongly rejected by most every other god, who each detested the idea of confining their own creations to what was seen as an imperfection. It was only when Onadra ultimately voiced agreement with her twin that the other gods came around as well: mortality to the Children of Fury would make it so each individual life, by its finite span, would be better appreciated. The wild, violent abandon that they currently lived would be abandoned, Onadra reasoned, as they would need to devote their energies to survival instead of wanton war.

### The Leyline Chasis

Balfix's solution, juxtaposed to Uladra's proposal of mortality for the Children of Fury, was to have all gods and divine powers distance themselves from Altheris. With the races of the world made mortal and their lives diminished in length, they would be more easily able to be influenced by the deities that had so far directly shaped the planet. After much heated debate, the Primordial Titans and many of the gods agreed with Balfix's reasoning; some did not. Refusing to give up their direct links to the world and the powers it offered them in kind, some gods fought back against their kin instead, in a mad bid for dominance of Altheris. The powers that sided with Balfix rallied together in the face of this betrayal, and beat down the now Traitor Gods, punching them through the world into Pandemonium, the Abyssal Plane.

The Primordial Titans then each created pocket worlds of their own, threading them along the Weave so as to be a world removed, yet bound to Altheris - a last link to the primary world of the Titans' combined creation. With the divines removed from Altheris, the final act left to perform the Kenosis itself - the deprivation of supersaturated mana from each individual living thing on Altheris. The mana was instead realigned by Manara into a planetwide circulatory system that courses around and through the world, acting as both a recycling system for used mana and a chasis to protect the physical plane from most of the influence of the other planes...and their respective divine powers. This great intraplanetary network of energy, called the Leyline Chasis, serves as the source of mana for the planet to this day. With their work done and their Children brought low to mortality, the gods took their direct leave of Altheris, most content to watch and influence from afar.