History of The Universe

## Ouranos' Universe

Aether Walkers

Titans

In the beginning there existed two lovers, Gaia  and Ouranos . Long or short into their timeless embrace, Ouranos grew sick in the mind and eventual used his power to create the entire universe from his lover Gaia.

He spent aeons tinkering with his project, making beautiful structures out of atoms, entire galaxies of crystals, but with nothing to witness them. However across the universe, born from the random chaos of Gaia being ripped apart were thousands of species that would make up the animal and plant kingdoms. Ouranos loved these species as they each worked as a part of an ecosystem, delicate natural orders created from chaos.

The first beings Ouranos created himself were the Hecatoncheires; three galaxy-spanning goliaths with millions of tendrils and appendages each, created with the purpose of experiencing and being inspired by his universe. For aeons these three beasts forged beautiful structures out of entire planets, rearranged stars and systems to form patterns and shapes, and even manipulated the budding ecosystems of the animal and plant kingdoms to create new species. Ouranos saw this as his creations taking it a step to far and it began to irk him.

After using his lover to create the material universe, Ouranos found issue with taking the life of the three goliaths, but had grown tired of their messing with his creation so Ouranos created Erebus, a being made from the dark empty parts of space, to dispel the beasts.

Erebus tracked all three of the beasts across the universe by following the patters they made with the stars to a section of space known as Phade , and unable to kill them, Erebus swallowed them into his darkness creating the first new dimension, Hell  and Limbo  which is the space in-between dimensions.

Within seconds of the new dimension being created the chaos of the universe began to meld with Limbo creating a non-corporal shape-shifting species known as the Aether Walkers , unbeknownst to Ouranos.

Without the Hecatoncheires their to disrupt their delicate ecosystems, many species in the animal and plant kingdoms were now able to flourish and begin to evolve natural as Ouranos had wanted. The first sentient plant species with motility, the Cashapona , emerge on the planet Nirvana .

As a reward Ouranos made the Nyx Queen from a star system and some of Erebus' darkness to be a bride for Erebus, and gave their children a large solar system known as Nox  to inhabit and use on condition that they worship Ouranos and the almighty creation that is the Universe, which they did.

On the largest planet Nyktos , the first children of Erebus and the Queen called themselves the Nyx , named directly after their mother, these semi-corporal bipedal creatures of darkness lived in the subterranean tunnels of their crystal planet, which over centuries spanned across the entire planet in a network of caves and crystal mountains. The first Nyx and their early ancestors became adept miners and mountain climbers and their crystalline technologies reflect that.

Several daughters of Erebus resided on the volcanic giant Mormo , and to maintain survival they drank the blood of the native animal kingdom. Over the centuries these daughters, known as the Empusa , became acclimated with their environment, and had legs of bronze and hair of fire. The Empusa were the first of Erebus' kin to venture off-world and the ancestors of the original Empusa would terrorize the subterranean Nyx.

The final children of darkness were the Harpyiai , on the windy planet Aello . The Harpyiai were adept flyers and navigators as the planet was a majority of mountains with small rivers found at the bottom of gigantic gorges. Just like their sister species the Empusa, the Harpyiai would become known for kidnapping individuals in the blink of an eye, with the Harpyiai terrorizing the Nyx and the Empusa if they ever surfaced their planets. This eventually led to the Nyx and Empusa forming an alliance and almost driving the Harpyiai to extinction.

Ouranos had allowed his favourite creation Erebus to nurture his children and help the thrive, but this meant there was nothing stopping the Hecatoncheires from crossing the Limbo and returning to his universe, so Ouranos created his second titan, Ananke , a presence encompassing the entire universe that would act as a barrier between the Limbo and the physical universe. For aeons Ananke waited patiently, happily guarding the universe for her creator/father's approval waiting for the beasts to cross limbo.

As Ananke embraced the universe, time came to a standstill, and all movement ceased in the universe for a brief period. Ouranos created Chronos from the energy at the centre of the universe (the place he had used Gaia) and instructed him to keep all the planets rotating as to allow time to flow. However time stopping had killed the Nyx Queen and Erebus in anger went to live in the Limbo, tearing through a portion of Ananke. This tear would become the first black-hole, Charybdis .

Meanwhile species across the animal and plant kingdom were starting to emerge with more and more physical resemblance to Gaia and this frightened Ouranos. This coupled with the departure of his favourite son Erebus prompted him to create two more titans Ekhidna  and Apophis .

Ekhidna was to be the mother of monsters, her children created to install fear and respect into the animal and plant kingdoms. Her first was Jormungandr , a giant world eating serpent that resided in the Angrboða Nebula .  Jormungandr devoured planets and turned their moons into his eggs fathering a bunch of reptilian species known collectively as the Skalak  this way.

Jormungandr also fathered two titan children, Anantashesha  and Wadjet , with Anantashesha fathering his own Skalak species known as the Naga . These two titans were worshipped as gods by the various Skalak species.

* The Moon of Dasdai became the egg to the Sciritai , an aquatic Skalak race
* The Amphisbaena , were a race of two headed snakes from the Moon of Amfivena
* The Venomous Basiliskoi , hatched from the Moon of Basilisc

Ekhidna mothered a host of other beasts to plague the natural kingdoms;

* Orthos , a two headed beast worshiped and feared by the Cynocephaly , a dog-headed humanoid animal kingdom species