The Ages of Orden

There has been many Ages of Orden.

1. Age of Gods, also called The Age of Creation - Runs from time immemorial to the creation of Orden. The Law of Nature and Law of Death was Established.
2. Age of Dragons - Ket created the first speaking race on Orden, the Dragons.
3. Age of Elves - This was followed by Val creating the Celestials. The Dragons and Celestials coexisted in peace. Wodes cover all of Orden and Val walks among the Elves.
4. The Elemental Age - With the other Gods debating whether or not they should start anew with the world, destroying it in the process, Ord and Kul creates the Law of Time. This enforces Causality on to the world, making it so that anything done, can not be undone. This was done at the same time as they together created their own speaking race, the Elementals. The Steel Dwarfs build the vast stronghold of Kalas Mithril, becoming the capital of Orden. The Stone Dwarfs were imbued with knowledge to work and shape the world around them by Ord.
5. Age of Men - Cyn saw the other Gods' creations and was unimpressed. Anything they did, was because of the power given to them by their creator, making them little more than extensions of the God themselves. Cyn created the Terrans and bound them to the Laws of Nature, Death and Time. Men would die, living their day one after another, and anything they would accomplish would be from their own physical work, nothing else. Humans were afraid, ignorant and hateful, but it was only because of that, that they could show courage, knowledge and wisdom. The humans also brought something else with them, war and conflict.
	* This was the period of the Ganarājya Empire. Back then, before magic, there was only Shadow Magic. It is believed that the dark power called Shadow is the dead life essence of a previous world.
6. The First Age of War - Started when the Humans first fought the Dragons. Ket, furious at the attack on his creations, and in essence an attack on him. Ket ordered the Dragons to destroy the Humans. This started the War Among the Gods, as the various gods took differing sides in the conflict. The gods tried to interfere on the behalf of their creations, but found that they too, were bound by Lyl's Law of Nature, they could not interfere, for they lacked any substance other than will. Cyn found a way around the law however, by creating Worship. By granting his creations his own essence, if they obeyed certain rules, thus requiring action on their part. With their newfound power, the Humans could drive back the Dragon, who brought them to the brink. Ket, seeing this lashed out and did the unthinkable, he attacked Cyn. This led to the first and only battle among the gods. Cyn in response attacked back. Nyl, seeing his brother defenseless, took the blow, and in the end, Cyn slew Nyl. In the end, Cyn was censored by the other gods and was banished, forbidden from contacting his creations. The other races given a mandate; Man must never know his Creator.
	* The Steel Dwarfs of Kalas Mithril are destroyed by an attack by the Astral Celestials, likely the starting point of the racial enmity between Dwarfs and Elfs
	* Dragons create the Orcs, as a crude gesture of what the Dragons thought of the Humans, and use them in the war against the them.
	* The Star Elves(Astral Celestials) were banished to the World Below in the aftermath of the war. The reason for this is unknown.
	* The remaining True Elves leave the mundane world together with their god Val, going to the newly created plane of Arcadia.
7. Age of Death
8. Age of Darkness - A massive Meteor collides with Orden, starting the Age of Darkness
9. Age of Wonder - around the second century the Ganarajyan Empire emerges. This starts the Age of Man, one which might never stop.
10. Age of Saints - Short age, lasted on 600 years. It produced Sages to rival the Age of Enlightenment and Loremasters to rival the Age of Wonder.
11. Age of Enlightenment - The start of the Age of Wonder until the end of the Age of Enlightenment lasts 3,600 years.
12. Age of Heroes - Xin Empire
13. Age of Magic
14. Age of Conquest - Caelian Empire
15. Age of Savagery - Followed Immediately after the sudden collapse of the Caelian Empire. Lasted about 300 years. Ended with Good King Omund re-uniting Aendrim.
16. Age of Chaos. - Ajax emerges and throws the world into chaos once more.

By far the most populace race in the Age of War, Men were created differently than Elves, Dwarves, and Dragons. They have no magical properties, no divine connection to their creator. They are fundamentally part of the natural world in a way none of the other Speaking Races are.

~~Men were the last of the Speaking Races to appear upon the earth. They were the first race to make war upon themselves. Their brutality and savagery was a great shame to their god, Cyn, of whom they knew little. Cyn’s shame at his failure as a Creator God prompted him to begin the great conflict that resulted in the death of the god Nyl, and the creation of the Innumerable Younger Gods.~~

~~I think the law of death just means that people can't ever come back from death, it did not introduce the concept of death. The elves and dragons are immortal because they remember the times before the law of time.~~

The Law of death means that everything has an end, and that living beings must one day die. The Other Speaking races are outside of this because they were created and infused with power from their gods, rather than the humans, and later emerging races. The death of the God of Death means that that the law is no long enforced and men and other can be resurrected and live forever, should they find the means to.

There are four speaking races. Elves (Celestials), Dwarves (Elementals), Dragons (Dragons) and Men (Terrans). Anything else that talks, Orcs and Kobolds, Elves and Centaurs, Giants and Lesser Elementals, Hobgoblins and Halflings, and innumerably more, were all created by members of the Four Speaking Races millennia ago. The Elves made all the things that stalk in the forests. The Dragons made Orcs to show everyone what they thought of Men. And Men are different from the other three in ways that are not self-evident.

1. The gods who made the Earth made three species of Elemental, the Steel Dwarves (the Adamant Elementals, rip), the Fire Elementals, and the Granite Elementals (the Stone Dwarves) of whom only the Stone Dwarves remain in Orden.

Summary:

* The Terran Empire was the first human empire. Zaar had to arbitrate disputes between them and the Celestials. This might be because of conflicts arising from humans encroaching on the wodes and cutting down trees.
* Kalas Mithral, as well as the Steel Dwarfs died in a war against The Astral Celestials during the War Among the Gods. The Astral Celestials (the Shadow/Night Elves) gathered their first Army of Night and sieged Kalas Mithral. Because of the slaughter of the Steel Dwarves, the Astral Celestials were banished to the World Below.
	+ It seems like the Star Elves tried to use their alchemy on the Steel Dwarfs, which ended up being their first misstep, and maybe what led to the war between the two of them.
	+ This means that the Dwarfs where on the side of Cyn, and Val the side of Ket.
* This event also led to Val leaving the Mundane World and created Arcadia.
* Humans were created naturally, meaning they probably evolved sentience, or at least were elevated to sentience by a god, most likely this Cyn. The Shame of how barbaric and savage his race was prompted him to start the conflict that resulted in the death of the god Nyl, and the creation of the Innumerable Younger Gods. This conflicts is most likely the War Between the Gods. Who is Nyl? The god of Death? Did the death of the god result in divine essence being spread, which later coalesced into smaller gods. this could either be the human gods, or gods of non-speaking races, like orcs or halflings.
	+ I What happened to Cyn afterwards? Was probably punished by the rest of the Gods, which might be reason Humans has so many gods. Cyn was the main god of the humans, and with them gone, they had to turn to other gods. This led to legendary people ascending to godhood from the collected belief in their supposed godhood. People's beliefs and worship is what allows people to ascend.