The Thelar

The **Primordials**, also known as the **First**, or The **Thoughts of Creation** were once beings encompassing both the Material and the Immaterial. They were the first and mightiest beings created through the winds of creation long before the true beginning of the Universe. A species of Pre-existential Entities having been the eldest entities in creation, having been born before the beginning of Creation itself and taking part in the creation of the Universe. They were once the prototypes of concepts that hadn't yet existed, such as matter, antimatter, darkness, madness, chaos, oblivion or infinity, and many such others.

They were primordial spirits who existed within the first levels of the void, and within would create the lower material realms through the **Themes of Creation,** the **Great Primordial Music**. After the creation of the Universe as it is known, many of the Greater and Lesser Primordials descended into it to guide and order its expansive growth; of these there were Sixteen far more powerful than the rest. Nine of these great Primordial became known as the Thelar, or the Powers of Creation. The Seven other Great Primordials, led by Khaos, turned aside from the Golden path and became the first Dark Lords known as the M'alatar. The many lesser Primordials that had accompanied the Great Thelar into the Materium would be known as the Talaar.

The Thelar would become an ancient, technologically and psychically advanced intelligent flesh and blood species. And would then establish an interstellar empire across the Milky Way Galaxy tens of millions of Terran years ago. Ruling over the Milky Way before the development of most of the other sentient species of the galaxy.

The Primordials were the first species to attain sentience within the galaxy as they were born before it, and the first species to cross the "sea of stars," making them also the first star-faring species in galactic history.

The Thelar were the original crafters of the Ancient Webway, and the creators of the Álfarii and many other intelligent peoples of the galaxy such as the Tele'hann and the Imperiums Cherubim, as well as the Ancient Orrukai.

The existence of the Thelar is known to Humanity mainly through Álfarii Mythology and their long-ago war with the Necrotair.

The Thelar became embroiled in a collection of great conflicts over 60 million Terran years ago with the Ancient M'alatar and the Th'zhitair and their Necrotair servants, wars that they had eventually lost. And after their defeat, the Thelar either went extinct or disappeared from the galaxy, their fate or destination unknown.

## History

What existed before the creation of the universe is and perhaps always will be a mystery to the universes Species, everything known has been recorded in research done by humans and the universes species about this period so distant and unknown. Despite this, everything seems uncertain, mysterious and curious.

For in the beginning there was nothing, no worlds, no matter, no wind, no life, no death, no time, no light, no heavens or hells, the universe was without form, and devoid of thought. But within a moment, this nothingness was replaced with echoes of Nothingness that had beed made of an ultrahot nonmaterial. Afterwards, this material was cooled down with the echoes of Chaos, which then gave way to the echoes of Darkness. Eventually, the great expanse grew tired of being nothing, and so the universe said the Word, and the Word was Creation, the One, it that is Alone, also known as Eru, and the Word was Creation.

Creation and Nothingness were the yes and the no of everything. The acceptance and negation all rolled into one being, essentially being the transcendent root of roots as the origins of all that has existed, exists, will exist, will not exist, and does not exist.

For when Creation saw its reflection within the Primordial Waters, its reflection took shape and personified in the entities that would become the Thelar, the first thoughts of creation, personifying all that would be, and all that hadn't been. When they were formed, with the coming of Existence came the power of the arcane and elements of the material both formless and seemless, so to with the elements came Life, and with the coming of life so to did Death follow shortly afterwards, and with death came Decay. And finally when the first second clicked, Time also formed. And when a hint of Conflict and insanity formed, so did the blind idiocy of Madness. And finally to maintain Order, the universe required endlessness and oblivion, and so from this Cosmic Egg came the Ouroboros and Vitriol.

These beings, these *Pre-existentials*, within this split zeptosecond were the most powerful beings within the multiverse, there were possibly others but most are not known for now.

### Origin

These Primordials had been the *'offspring of thought'* and each was given understanding only of that part of the mind of the Nascent Universe from which he or she came. The exception to this was Khaos, a brother in spirit to Aldon and Erasil, who both later became The Lords of the Thelar and who were given some of the parts from which the others had come, but for all their gifts they could not know the full expanse of the mind of Creation. Khaos, Aldon and Erasil were the most powerful of this Primordial Pantheon.

The Primordials as echoes of the mind of creation were kindled with the Flame Imperishable, which can be taken to mean that they were granted free will by the Creation itself. From their very conception they were instructed in the themes of the Great Song, until their very essence of being brought them together to make the First Themes of Creation: the great songs that created the Visions of Creation and ultimately the Material Universe. In the beginning of the Music, the Primordials were all in harmony with Creation and one another, but Khaos and his Chaotic kin turned instead to their own treasonous pride, seeking power for themselves and attempting unsuccessfully to bring discord to the Great Music. Leading many of the Lesser Talaar astray eventually creating the vile Daemons of Chaos.

### The Thelar and the matter of their Great Song

First to be named had been Creation itself, The Father of All. Creation would make the Primordials by manifesting its unknown and formless concepts into living beings. Upon their creation, when nothing else yet is made, Creation would then endow the Primordials with the art of its 'Great Music', which becomes their life and work.

The next lines speak to the maturation of the Primordials and the cultivation of the Heaven’s Music into the First Theme. This Void becomes filled with the making of Music. With each Primordial comprehending at first only those secondary ideas and themes most closely and intimately related to that primary idea-theme-thought of Creation which pre-figured itself, these creative musical elaborations only gradually, through exposure to each other, become collaborative. The compositions revolving around themes given to each Primordial by Creation, these themes then correspond respectively to those primary themes, and intimate concepts embodied in each Primordial – that indeed are each Primordial. Through listening and contemplation, a Primordial then becomes aware of other Primodials, and other music, and the cultivation and adornment of other themes.

After a time of Music, Creation proposes a first 'great' design, themes, and plan to all the Primordials at once. He charges them with the collective elaboration of this great design, themes, and plan.

While it is true that the Primordials are Creations thoughts fully embodied, they each have a life of their own, and are expected to utilize their 'freedom' by cultivating the grand theme. Only in the future, at the 'end of days', will all the created beings of Creation fully understand not only the divinely provided concepts and themes they each personally embody, but how each relates to all the others and fits (as per Creation's intentions) in the entire greater scheme.

### Khaos within the Great Song

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Khaos was the 3rd of creations thought to be introduced, and the Primordial began his solitary Chorus. The first Primordial to be named within the histories, Khaos is described as the most powerful of his Kin and as knowing much of Creations intimate thoughts, including something of each of the primary themes that prefigure the other Primordials. He develops impatience with the schooling process of thematic elaboration: and like a precocious child, Khaos begins thinking of certain musical ideas and themes as being 'of his own design', and he feels compelled to develop them apace from the others. Khaos even harbors the desire to externally manifest his intimate ideas and to become a creator of beings himself, he even shares his thoughts with a select few of his kin.

When the Primordial choir finally embark on the fully collaborative elaboration of Creations grand plan, Khaos and his allies would participate with all the others, yet they stand forth and inserts their very different thematic adornments, which disrupts the harmony. One reason the music of the M'alatar is so different is that they have spent too much time alone harboring their own thoughts, so their individualistic themes appear to have a singular, rather than contextual, origin. The 'battle' in the primordial choir would rage back and forth with the Music as described by by Creation as:

"Deep and wide and beautiful, but slow and blended with an immeasurable sorrow, from which its beauty chiefly came". The M'alatar's music, on the other hand, is said to have been "loud, and vain, and endlessly repeated, and it was essayed to drown the other music by the violence of its own voices." But, despite Khaos' best efforts to mar and utterly overthrow the Great Song, his discordant music's "most triumphant notes were taken by the other and woven into its own solemn pattern",

> "The other had grown now to a unity and system, yet an imperfect one, save in so far as derived still from the eldest theme of Creation."
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The Great Music of the Primordials progresses thus: Creation introduces a First Theme to the choir of the Thelar and the M'alatar spoils it, converting many of the Telaar to their cause in later years, (these fallen Telaar become in the later histories the Vile Daemons of Chaos itself.) Next, Creation imposes a Second Theme, and again the M'alatar corrupts it. Creation then proposes a Third Theme, which is also infected by the M'alatar and devolves into a raging disharmonious conflict. Creation puts an end to the disharmony with the conducting of "…one chord, deeper than the Abyss, higher than the Firmament, piercing as the light of the eye of Creation." After the Great Music stops, Creation promptly chastises the M'alatar and then leaves the room. This causes the collective M'alatari to be ashamed which in its turn causes them to anger.

### The vision

Creation next shows the Primordials a 'Vision'. The Vision is of what the transliteration of their collaborative Great Music into a material reality would be like. They are shown that the Music has a point, has a result and effect beyond its composition and singing: it amounts to no less than a highly detailed template commensurate with the entire history – beginning to end – of a material, 'physical' Universe that could exist inside 'time'. During this sneak preview of the Birth, Life and Death of the Universe, the Thelari and M'alatari behold and contemplate all the aspects of this material reality, which aspects are each associated with themes associated with the particular Primordial. As the Primordials gaze out on this preview, Khaos sees now in detail how even his most private ideas and themes, even his most disruptive and destructive efforts, in the end serve only to fully elaborate Creations master plan, design, theme and will. Khaos and his M'alatar kin are shown that their private themes (as they had thought them) are in fact elements of that plan/design/will and mere tributary to Creations glory."

Now the Third theme and the Children (Sentient Species i.e: Humanity and the Álfarii) are discussed. The Primordials see in the Vision that there are things none of them remember composing, and things they perhaps remember composing but did not at the time fully understand. The Children of Creation are first mentioned here, the future home of the Children (Arda –'the Realms', i.e. the Milkyway) is spotted. Many of the Primordials, including Khaos and his M'alatari, become enamored by the great Expanse, though Khaos still wants to dominate it and the Children.

The Primordials, looking out at the preview of all creation, come to believe that the Void, of all the substances and energies of material reality, most completely echoes the collaborative elaboration that was the propounding and cultivating of Creations entire creative plan. The Primordials rejoice in Light, but at the sounds of the great ethereal sea, they feel a great unquiet.

Aldon and Erasil are introduced. While Khaos is the first Primordial properly named, and the first Primordial to whom Creation directly speaks in the histories, Aldon and Erasil ('The King' or 'The Expanse' and 'The Radiant' or 'The Magnificent') are the second on both counts: right after the point is made that Void is the fullest echo of the Music of the Primordials, Aldon and Erasil are introduced as the Primordials most identified with the Void, and the Primordial most educated in the matter of Music.

Aldon and Erasil are the second Primordials to whom Creation specifically speaks in the histories when He points out to Aldon that the Void has from Khaos' meddling benefited beyond Aldons earlier conceptions. Khaos' attempts to disrupt with the use of fierce heat and severe cold do nothing to ruin the Void (as Khaos must have hoped), but rather leave the Universe with the beauties of the stars and their worlds and therein the moons; this does no less than push Aldon and Erasil more closely together. Aldon, first of all the Primordials (Khaos included), has his words quoted in the histories when he says,

"Truly, The Void has become now fairer than my heart imagined, neither had my secret thought conceived the snowflake, nor in all my music was contained the falling of the rain. I will seek Erasil, that he and I may make melodies for ever to thy delight!", and so Aldon and Erasil are revealed as the two chief servants of Creation's intentions.

### The Thelar and the Universe

Through the Primordial Music, there was a vision of creation for the Universe; it was showed to the Primordials, and much of its nature and destiny had been innately explained to them - the Primordials therefore have much knowledge of the Universe, but are not themselves omniscient. Creation then granted the Universe a true being by declaring "Eä", causing these visions to come into material being.

### Genesis

The Vision ends: Creations preview is snatched away before any of the Primordials can fully see or comprehend the whole work of their music-in-to-substance. Because of this, and because of their nature as beings that must grow to an understanding of themselves in the context of the interplay of all creation, the Primordials know quite a bit of the past, present and future of the Universe and its inhabitants, yet they don’t know everything (the later days, especially, are hidden from them). When the vision is taken away, the Primordials are restless, having fallen in love with the Universe, its Worlds and their Children. Even Khaos thinks that he wants to be a benign part of their manifestation, though his tendencies must lead more toward dominance than cultivation.

Time begins. For it is the end of the Beginning, Creation takes the entire musical work of the Primordials, including the M'alatari's destructive efforts, and makes it manifest, material, real, objective and existing as Eä ('It is', or 'Let it Be'), or what can be called the Universe. Erasil and Aldon and many of the most powerful and influential Primordials desired to descend into creation and form it in readiness for the coming of the Children of Creation and therefore would enter into the now Material Realm, but they had entered on condition that the life of the Universe, which has a beginning, middle and end, corresponding to the Great Music of Creation, will be binding on them, and will become their lives as well. And upon descending into the Newborn Universe, the Primordials both Greater and Lesser became known as the Thelar (‘The Powers’, the most powerful Primordials that enter into the Universe) and the Talaar respectively, enter into creation and became a part of the Universe at the very beginning of Time, but Khaos is amongst them.

### Creators of the Webway

The Thelar had been patient upon the creation of the Universe, and before attempting to journey out into the interstellar space born their collective creation they made an extensive study of astronomy and astrophysics, which led them to eventually discover the existence of the (as of then unknown) layers of the Immaterium. At the time, the Immaterium had been entirely unaffected by the psychic emissions of other intelligent species (since there were none present within the galaxy), and it was a calm and steady realm of ethereal existence.

The Thelar were able to exploit the Layers of the Immaterium, allowing them to travel across the galaxy at a whim through the development of transdimensional Voidspace tunneling technology and a network of Void Gates and interlinked Rift Portals later called the Webway by the Álfarii that instantaneously connected their far-flung interstellar colonies.

Such was the Thelar advanced and innate understanding of the material and immaterial that they had the capacity to cross vast tracts of space with a single step by way of their Webway portals and through such means they managed to spread their Empire to many other places. They believed that all life born of Creation was useful and had value and they are known to have brought about the rise of numerous new species and impregnated tens of thousands of worlds with new life which they made their own.

### The First War in Heaven

Before the creation of the Álfarii, the Thelar had been at war with their M'alatar Kin over 70 million Terran years ago, a conflict later remembered by the Álfarii as the "First War in Heaven."

The flames of Khaos' resentment towards the Thelar would lead to the first interstellar war ever fought within the galaxy. But as he possessed of far inferior technology, Khaos' war against the Thelar to claim control over creation proved futile and He and his M'alatar were forced back to the remote edges of the universe in the outer rim of the galaxy's Bale Stars. The fury of the M'alatar cooled over thousands of Terran years of imprisonment by the Thelar, but they eventually turned their hatred against their jailing brethren upon all other forms of life.

Khaos would study the void for thousands of Terran years. And in his quest for a weapon to use against the Thelar who had prevented his interstellar dominance, He would find an intelligent race of void-energy. And gradually the M'alatar managed to communicate with these ethereal beings composed of pure gestalt energy who fed on the negative emotional energy emitted by the M'alatar, but Khaos knew these beings would never be able to fully comprehend the material universe without a material body.

So Khaos with his knowledge of creation built the living flesh and blood bodies from an alloy he titled Baleflesh or Malodermis as it would later be called that these Progenitor Daemons are still adorned with millennia later. These Daemons were soon titled by Khaos as his Children, and as their powers and intelligence grew far beyond anything seen within the Material Universe so would his cruel love grow for them.

The first of these *'children'* born of Khaos' madness would be a joint effort of Khaos and Esyn, and after years of toiling within the Bale Forges the heretical spawn would be titled Se'taan the first

As these Primogenitor Daemons became more manifest in their new physical bodies, they began to enjoy certain aspects of material life more, including the infliction of pain, suffering and slavery of the burgeoning flesh and blood races -- and discovered that the energies given off by corporeal life were far more savory than the bland ethereal emissions of the void that had always been the mainstay of their diet.

## The War in Heaven

### The Years of Wrath

The flames of Khaos' resentment towards the Thelar and the Álfarii would lead to the first Interstellar Wars ever fought within the galaxy. But as he was possessed of far inferior numbers, Khaos' war against the united Thelari forces to claim control over creation proved futile and He and his M'alatar allies were forced back to the remote edges of the universe in the outer rim of the galaxy's Bale Stars for a second time. The fury of the M'alatar would then cool over thousands of Terran years of imprisonment by the Thelar, but they eventually turned their hatred against their jailing brethren upon all other forms of life.

Khaos would then turn his ire to the Void itself and study the void for tens of thousands of Terran years. And in his quest for a weapon to use against the Thelar who had prevented his interstellar dominance, He would discover the secrets of the void and its gestalt energies. And gradually the Lord of the M'alatar managed to communicate with these ethereal beings composed of pure gestalt energy who fed on the negative emotional energy emitted by the M'alatar, but Khaos knew these beings would never be able to fully comprehend the material universe without a material body.

Working within the Baleforges, Khaos would create the first Daemons born of his very own accursed flesh. And from there he would stage the first True War in Heaven.

Menoetius having become a monstrous echo of the Golden Primordial he once was along with His Brood of Daemons borne of his own accursed flesh turned into icons of war, would become the Crimson herald of the M'alatari as he waged the first Blood Crusade upon the universe, obliterating all life he would come across as he scoured the galaxy, and wherever blood had been shed it would lead to more and more bloodshed as the Scarlet Brood spread evermore becoming a living virus of violence across the milkyway.

Phthisis having spent his time hidden behind the great veil within the void would emerge the same as Menoetius had, now forever changed by his accursed experimentation upon the vile life of the northern Bale Stars. He would emerge from the north and cleave a path throughout the cosmos poisoning the life His brethren had birthed, and like an accursed harvestmen he purged life throughout the universe, leaving entire swaths of nothing but the husks of dead, diseased worlds.

And for years the Crimson Lord of War, and the Chitinous Prince of Decay would scour the Northern East of the universe. Bringing ruin to a million worlds, and growing ever stronger on the fat of a trillion souls.

#### Death of Tranquility

Now having felt the immeasurable anguish of an untold billion souls across the cosmos Chydros would rally His Loyal brethren against the M'alatari perpetrators. He and the full might of the Thelar, and the armies of their Primordial Empire would begin their attack on these perpetrators.

Menoetius the Lord in Red was first challenged by His brothers, the Great Lord Talios, and Chydros. And as the conflict between the Primordial gods escalated ever further, Chydros would forge a final sword that had once been meant for Aldon, and it proved to be the greatest of all born of his creation. Chydros called it *Ere'skrill*, "the Light of a Hundred Dawns." Armed with this weapon, And after centuries of tearing through the Ranks of the Bloody Brood Chydros was the first to meet his Brother upon the battlefield as he strode forth to do battle with his Brother. And it was a long, hard-fought struggle, but even with *Ere'skrill*, Chydros was no match for the newly strengthened Daemonic War God. Menoetius cast down Chydros, maiming the artificer, and broke the God upon his knee.

However, the great falcon, consort of the Great Hawk King Mávnos, who had fought for Chydros once before, took the sword *Ere'skrill* and delivered it straight to Áidná, the daughter of the Great Áellatarii King Eidnár, and his consort Rávdná the smith, the greatest of the Áellatarii heroines. With *Ere'skrill* in hand, Áidná of the Red Moon took up the fight and faced Menoetius in single combat. Áidná bringing glory to her namesake fought well, but in the end she, too, was defeated by Menoetius, her body crushed by the Daemon Lord of War.

As Menoetius slew Áidná his hands began to drip with red blood. Forever after, he was to become known as "Kirä'shu Käsi'lä Menoetius," which means "Menoetius the Bloody-Handed" in the Álfarii Lexicon. Eidnár had seen enough of the slaughter and rallied the full might of the Álfarii and their kindreds to the aid of the War in Heaven.

Rimos and Yther enraged by the death of Chydros, and now their forces further bolstered by the strength of the Álfarii, would carve their way through the Blood Gods brood, and the two would challenge the Crimson Lord together. And it would be a long, hard-fought struggle, but the two gods would emerge victorious but with the War Gods death, a thousand worlds had been bathed in his blood, and now a thousand worlds had become spawning pools of the crimson brood.

##### Death of Talios

Talios would then be attacked by the forces of Menoetius now led directly by the greatest of the War-Gods crimson brood upon his death, And after the vast majority of the conflict Talios had begun to fight alone against the endless hordes for centuries after his retinue Had been slaughtered to the last, and only once a blade of divine origin created by the Lady of Death Thiztris had been sent deep into His Heart would he begin to falter in his defense.

And even then it is said that it would only be until 4 crimson stars pulled by chains forged using Khaos own wretched ichor and pulled by the strongest of the Primogenitor Daemons born of the accursed flesh of the Chief God amongst the M'alatari had been hurled onto the Great Primordial, would Talios then be left shattered under his innumerable grievous wounds.

### The Unseen Mockery

Azathoth possibly the strongest of the M'alatari' when it came to his connection to the void he alone would commit his cruel mockery upon creation. The event now known as the Convergence of Calamity was implemented by Azathoth, he alone would claw a rift through existence itself pulling the immaterium into the Material Universe, undoing the work done by Talios when he separated the void and its levels from the material realm. And due to the foresight and malice of Khaos, and Esyn after their actions of Corrupting the Veil, once the worlds had been bathed by the oceans of madness, the Ancient Denizens of these verdant planets went insane once the worlds began to converge, as well as pouring trillions of the Primordial Daemons upon these worlds, Turning them into the First true Daemon Worlds.

And with this Convergence of Calamity Phthisis was finally able to implement his part of the plan, wherein through the Calamities Rift he pulled his own Daemonic children borne of a thousand years of arcane sorcery's, and from their the now fully material Phthisian Hive would embark to plague the million worlds that hadn't been affected by the Calamities Rift. Enacting an ever greater toll onto the galaxy.

#### The Tears of Phthisis

The Primordials Minera, Drasyn and Ukasis who once been Hunting down the Plague God Phthisis, would now contend with an almost apocalyptic level event. An untold tens of trillions of Hive had now surrounded them on a thousand corrupted worlds. The battles waged were ones of survival now for the Hive had been born of Phthisis' anti-void energy, and with every wound inflicted upon the trio and their retinues it would be one that not only could kill them physically but would dare to reap their very souls from their forms.

It has been said by Álfarii historians that before he emerged it was silent, not a silence heard in the dead of night. But a silence heard only by the dead. And this ethereal quiet was the only herald of the Hive King. Reality screamed as he pierced through the veil like living lightning, the strength of his Daemonic aura outright killing the lesser mortals of the retinue and those who hadn't died outright at his arrival now had to contend with the newly risen forms of the long since dead.

Drasyn was the first to be singled out by Phthisis, and after a terribly short battle the Queen of Storms was taken by the Lord of Death as he disappeared as soon as he appeared. The only evidence of his coming having been the Hive that remained and the wake of death he tore.

It is unknown what became of the Lady of Storms, but it has been speculated by Álfarii historians that it is better simply not knowing. For when Phthisis emerged a 2nd time, heralded by the silence of death once more, he would battle the Primordial Minera but with the Balance of Life so having become so Heavily disheveled Minera had been Psionically Wracked whilst in combat with Phthisis,her very soul had become marred during the battle.

Minera would keep Phthisis in a stalemate battle for years and the two Gods would tear through the Calamities Rift. And from their battle Turbulent Void Storms would splinter and crack through the Materium and the Immaterial. The battle would become a hard fought struggle for both parties until after a full century of battle, Minera would emerge triumphant having severed the head of the Blight God, for His vile transgressions against their Sister, and His crimes committed to the life their pantheon had created.

It is said that Minera would weave the shattered form of Phthisis into life itself in an attempt to mend the wounds he inflicted upon creation. And it is speculated that this is what would cause the Calamities Rift to seem considerably shrunken compared to its original form in the modern day. But it is speculated what had become of the severed head of the Blight God, but many historians claim it would float through the material realm becoming an ethereal beacon for the Hive and their subsequent generations.

### Siege of Estelar

Aldon and Erasil Had stood atop the Pinnacle of their Empire, readying its Defenses and commanding their forces as they readied for the war ahead.

Thiztris, and Esyn, had begun their invasion upon the Empire's Throne World, having tore a path of death and madness through to the Throne World. Erasil and Aldon would board the Flag-Ship of the Goddesses armada, Esyn would only send Void clones which fell to the spears of The Helian Star Riders, but once Thiztris entered the fray she slaughtered all lesser beings to the last, and finally once she turned Her blades upon Her brothers.

Thiztris with Her Divine Killing weapons would begin battle with her brothers and soon she maimed the Sky Gods, weakening their hold to the material world to the point that they could no longer singlehandedly and reliably sustain their material avatars. But Erasil and Aldon with the last bit of their divine energies, would attempt to separate the void from the material realm once more, creating the final edict of the Primordial Empire ensuring that the ethereal forms could no longer exist in the material realm without an adequate avatar.

This edict pulled every Primordial and their none material followers into the Void, finally ending the War in Heaven within the material theaters. But now left with Sundered forms, and sapped of their Energies and unable to maintain their Primordial forms the Gods would choose to forsake their own existence's and merge their essences and became one, Creating the new God Al'orasil the “Father of Stars”.

The battle that occurred between The Goddess of Death and The newly titled Father of Stars, would be one of sacrifices as it led to the death of 80% of Life currently still living in the Universe, but this was a viable sacrifice to Al'orasil because after years of fighting and the gorging of a trillion souls Al'orasil was finally able to imprison His sister within the Onyx Bale Star.

Having felt the Death and Destruction He caused Al'orasil would first send the Primordial imprisoning star to the now Hellish Realms of the Void.

Gods Asundered:

Menoetius in vengeance for the lives of Talios, Chydros, and the countless billions who were slaughtered, was shattered by Rimos, and Yther, and with His shattered corpse thrown into the Depths of Hell, and from his splattered blood He further poisoned creation with His curse of violence, and with the descent of His sundered form His blood would mix with the corrupting energies of Hell, and once Reaching The Daemo-World M’Soitus and from it the 1st born Children of Menoetius were conceived.

Rimos, and Yther now joined with Drasyn and the still living Forces of The Empire invaded the Worlds of the Northern Expanses now titled the Deadzones of the North in an effort to find their Traitorous Brethren, but on their way through the Void, their World-Ships were attacked by the now expansive, and Formless body of Azathoth as he killed more than Half of their mortal Crews and with the void Azathoth corrupted The souls of The Chydros descended Arcuthai turning them against their Lords.

Calur the Leader of the Arcuthai with the last bit of His sanity would then take Himself and His Brethren and through a self created Void breach would then send the Arcuthai army along with the Angyl of The Lord would be Lost in the Void.

Rimos and Yther would then Fight The Lord of Madness, up until Inmera whilst hiding in the retinue army of mortals stabbed Her Brother Rimos in the Liver. Yther was able to shatter His Brother's form, separating His mind from His newly created Void form, imprisoning His consciousness from His essence and lessening His control of the Tumultuous Void.

Rimos Enraged and with the Aid of Drasyn would leave Inmera scarred enough to send Her retreating back to the Worlds of Hell.

Minera prepares to aid Her siblings in their efforts against Hell.

Siege of Hell:

Inmera returns back to Hells Throneworld to prepare for the oncoming siege.

Khaos, and Esyn within The Homunculi Labs prepare Daemonic experiments, creating Creatures to aid them in their War.

The Forces of The Empire broke through the Veil and The Siege of Hell begins in earnest.

Yther, along with His Angyls and Rimos along His Seraphim with their mortal Retinues teleport directly onto the Battlefield.

Khaos proceeds to intercept His brothers, along with an Army of Greater Daemons and Homunculi Abominations, all 3 Gods attempt to cut through the opposing Armies to get to their Enemy.

The Dragon Formed Greater Daemon Tathe’thon is released, and The Angyl Anu began to battle the dragon.

Drasyn, unlike Her brothers, went directly into The Palace in an attempt to find one of Her traitoris sisters cutting through countless Daemons and Homunculi, until she finally reached the Throne Room, when She saw Her sister Inmera.

Inmera and Drasyn enter into combat, when after hours of battle Drasyn leaves Inmera broken, but the Witch Queen teleports from the Throne Room escaping death.

Seeing this Esyn opens the multiple gates holding back multiple Greater Daemons specifically created to kill Gods.

Anu was battered and Bloody but triumphant over the Dragon.

The Angyls Matari’el, and Cassiel were killed by Khaos.

Rimos reaches Khaos first, and the battle between the 2 Gods begins.

Yther begins to battle multiple Greater Daemons specifically born to Kill Him.

After hours of battle Khaos finally over-powers His brother, breaking bones and finally raising Him above His head and bringing The God of Flame down onto His knee leaving the Primordial broken, and once He began to Roar in victory multiple Seraphim spears began to pierce through Him and their Radiant energies began to burn the Traitorous Primordial.

Some of the Seraphim retrieve the body of their Primogenitor, and The others attempt to keep the body of Khaos locked under their spears.

After Her battle with Drasyn, Inmera is left wounded and after feeling the essence of Khaos essentially become null, She decides to evacuate into the expanse of Hell.

With the last Greater Daemon left dead, and Drasyn beaten but still unbroken, She left the Throne Room in search of Esyn.

Esyn in a last ditch effort to rid the Universe of Her siblings decided to pour Her energy into the Void generator which had been powering the palace, in an effort to overload it and take out the planet.

With 2 Gods away from the front lines and endless hordes of Daemons crashing against the Last army of the Empire their numbers had begun to dwindle heavily, with only the Angyls and Seraphim making up the backbone of the defensive.

Yther after hours of searching, and carving through Daemons finally found His Primordial twin.

The Body of Rimos had been taken off world, but with a fading essence it was all for null, until Minera finally arrived with reinforcements for the siege.

Yther and Esyn began their Battle, and at its conclusion both came out of it broken and battered, until the Void Generator began to go critical, needing to retreat both Yther and Drasyn were teleported back to Minera's ship with the surviving soldiers boarding onto it.

With the Ship moving as fast as its void Generator could take it the palace's void generator finally went full critical, and with it the world was dragged into the abyss along with Khaos and Esyn, and the hordes of Daemons. ————————————————————————————————————————— Death of An Empire:

The Gods returned to a Universe void of more than 90% of its life, and the Gods themselves in some cases 80% taxed of the energy they used to have and no longer able to create and cultivate worlds at the level they used to in their adolescence.

Rimos with an essentially dead body and a soul barely clinging onto his corporeal form, He decided to leave his form, He chose to fade away like a fading ember and transpose His remaining essence into a ring He had been wearing leaving the God dead.

The weight of the wounds inflicted upon Drasyn had become too much for her to bear at this point and Her corporeal form to wounded to hold onto Her essence, but in a last ditch effort to retain some form of connection to the materium, She transposed Her soul into Her blade leaving the form of a god slumped over and dead.

Minera, unlike Her other siblings, had been able to retain Her soul's connection with Her body until the ship was able to arrive back to Heaven.

Seeing the devastation of Heaven Minera's heart shattered at the sight. And in an effort to at least aid the universe one last time she gave up Her largest portion of her essence, to aid in the return of life to barren worlds.

Yther now as the only Primordial either alive He tries to bring some semblance of order back to Heaven.

The Bodies of the Dead Primordials were brought into the depths of Empyria along with the weapons imbued with their souls.

The Angyls:

The Angyl of Command, Imperatus would be left as the Supreme Commander of Heaven in Gods absence.

The Destroying Angyl, M’ashitts sanity had been wracked during the siege and in an attempt to keep Him alive without need of execution would be entombed into the vault of Empyria.

The Angyl of Justice, Zarathos, Thought dead during the siege He was left back on Hell's throneworld.

The Angyl of Radiance, Anu, battered after His battle with Tathe’thon, Anu had been left wounded to live on His own He had been entombed into a Throne built as a life support device in the Tombs of Empyria.

## Legacy of the Old Ones

The implacable onslaught of the M'alatari and their Daemons during the War in Heaven combined with the transformation of the Immaterium into an unmistakably hostile dimension and its unleashing of dangerous Void entities ultimately destroyed the Primordials great civilization. It is unknown whether the entirety of the Ancient pantheon went extinct despite all its efforts or its survivors simply fled the galaxy outright to find a less dangerous region of the universe where they could recover.

The M'alatari took great pleasure in their percieved victory, despite the fact that they could not enjoy it for long before the Necrons' revolt against their masters forced both into hibernation for over 60 million Terran years.

In the power vacuum left in the Milky Way Galaxy after the Primordials disappearance, the "Younger Races" created by the Primordials such as Humanity and the Kre'lakaero continued their evolution, though now unguided they began to develop in ways unintended by their original creators.

The overall mantle of dominance over the galaxy would pass from the Primordials to their successors of the Áellatarii and their Álfarii, who had fought alongside the Primordials as their staunchest allies and most willing pupils during the War in Heaven. The Álfarii would then establish their own interstellar empire using the Thelari Webway, ultimately expanding and deepening its labyrinthine network.

The Primordials would long continue to feature in Álfarii legends. For instance, the runesingers of the Álfarii Craftworld Kaelor told of how the Webway had originally been created by the Primordials who used it to traverse the galaxy.

## Characteristics

The Primordials are immortal, angelic beings, nonetheless they mostly possess gender. Those who later descended upon the Universe took on common male and female forms to appear to the inhabitants in, and have an inherent male or female gender even when formless. This is because their gender is based on their being, which is independent of any physical form they may assume. But unlike the Children of Creation, they do not actually need hröar. Nevertheless, they can take tangible physical form called ***Avatars***, but this is a manifestation of their spirit and they do not technically have bodies the way the flesh and blood races do, nor do they have the immaterial constructs held by Daemons when they spill into the material realm. As such, a Primordial cannot quite be killed. However, their spirits can be weakened, in ways that hinder their ability to take form, influence the material realm, or even affect the universe at all.

## Notable Primordials

#### The Thelar

* **Aldon** -The Heavens, Space, Sometimes known as the High King, Aldon was the high king of the pantheon of Thelari Primordials sharing he title with Erasil. While the Álfarii mythic cycles seem to indicate that he held sway over all the others, he was nevertheless killed by Thiztris, and his essence fused to create Al'orasil. He is often depicted in relation to the Sword and Heaven, his chief symbols.
* **Erasil** -The Sun, Radiance, Truth, Intelligence, Logical Reasoning, Erasil was the high king of the pantheon of Thelari Primordials sharing he title with Aldon. While the Álfarii mythic cycles seem to indicate that he held sway over all the others, he was nevertheless killed by Thiztris, and his essence fused to create Al'orasil. He is often depicted in relation to fire and light, his chief symbols.
* **Minera** -Creation, Life, Fertility, and Maternity
* **Talios** -Earth/ Stagnancy, He personified the quality of endurance and Strength. Killed by the Scarlet Brood of Menoetius.
* **Ukasis** -Water, Major change,
* **Yther** -Order, Existence
* **Chydros** -Wisdom, Knowledge, Time, query, questioning, and intelligence, Chydros was once the Artificer, the god of smiths and craft. Chydros is one of the central gods of the pantheon, and would become an enemy to Menoetius. Chydros would finish his final blade, *Ere'skrill*, the Hundredth Dawn, and took it to do battle with Menoetius. Though it was the greatest of all swords, Menoetius was the better warrior and killed Chydros.
* **Drasyn** -Air, Movement, Hunters, the Unseen, and Minor Change, her fate is as of yet unknown but is assumed dead, killed by Phythisis.
* **Rimos** -Fire, Warmth, Arts, Music, Healing, Prophecy, Purification, Hope, He was broken upon the knee of Khaos and killed.

#### The M'alatar

* **Khaos** -The Abyss, Formlessness, Chaos, Void, Darkness, Eternity, Matter, Chaos, Formlessness, and Anti-Creation
* **Menoetius** -Cruelty, The Natural Order, The truest embodiment of animalistic violence, The Blood-God, The Endless Slaughter, He is the Primordial God of violent anger and rash action. Menoetius was felled by Rimos, and Yther, for the kinslaying of Chydros, and from his splattered blood further poisoned creation with His curse of violence, and with the descent of His broken form into The hellish void where His blood mixed with the corrupting energies of the void, and from that the neverborn have forever since spawned.
* **Phthisis** -Decay, Renewal. Embodying the personification of rot, decay and putrefaction and the despair of all living things feel towards the undeniable fact that all things will eventually end. Phthisis would be decapitated by Minera for his curse on creation, and has since had his body reconstituted and bound into the endless cycle of Renewal and Decay created by His sister, but the fate of His severed head ever in a state of sorrow has been as of yet unknown.
* **Esyn** -Chaos, Non-Existence, Absence, Destruction, Anti-matter, Darkness, Evil, Impurity, and self-destruction
* **Azathoth** -Incomprehensible Madness/ Ever changing shapelessness. They are the embodiment of all formless concepts, incomprehensible shapes, and meaningless words. Azathoth was killed during the war in heaven and his form would become the genesis of the immeasurable change within the void.
* **Thiztris** -Death, Necromancy, The End of Things, The personification of death, Thiztris, is as of yet still broken and bound within the Umbral-Bale Star by Al'orasil within the Hellish pits of the Void, and has ever since watched, and watched, and will forever more, until all is less than dust and she is finally released.
* **Inmera** -Magic, Shattering of Boundaries, Crossroads, Witchcraft, and Sorcery