The Dawn Age

As far as anyone knows, the world never had a true beginning. The Dawn Age began with the creator being, Alluventia, growing tired of his duality of being both a being of order and chaos and sought to separate his nature into two halves. He hoped by doing so, he'd be able to eventually use his ordered half to destroy the chaos that plagued him. In order to separate himself, Alluventia had to create space and time. These two beings would be Alivor-ni, the Father of Chaos and Ronsul-ki the Father of Order.

These two primordial beings would begin fighting each other across all time and space, attempting to exterminate the other. The intermixing of chaos and order eventually birthed two new beings which had a conscious, unlike their primordial counterparts. Alkivor became the new Father of Chaos while Ronisul became the new Father of Order. The mixing of chaos and order had repercussions on Alkivor and Ronisul, leading Alkivor to have a small amount of order within him and Ronisul having a small amount of chaos within him.

After eons of fighting each other, Ronisul and Alkivor yearned to no longer be alone, however, they knew that only by working together could they make creation. Order gave structure while chaos gave shape, and together they began to create divine beings to carry on their will. Much like Alluventia, the two of them would continue constructing these beings until they were completely drained of all their consciousness left, imprinting on the next generation the will to continue the struggle between order and chaos.

The beings that were born from this union of order and chaos are known as the first gods, and many of them would be even more mixed between chaos and order than Ronisul and Alkivor had been. And since many of these gods had both chaos and order imprinted within their hearts, their passion to continue warring against each other was greatly reduced. This mixing was on a spectrum, however, and some gods were more prone to either chaos or order than others.

The Dawn Age would truly begin with the death of both Ronisul and Alkivor and the beginning of cooperation between the first gods. The great city of Belorèn was built by a collection of gods to provide a safe location for all gods to rest. Augoria would become desired by other deities and spirits because of the immense beauty and power that went into the planet. Because of the potential for conflict, many of the gods living in Augoria gave part of their power to create a protective barrier against potential outside threats.

Many gods would continue to move to Augoria and created the lands of Aros as a symbol of both their power and loyalty to Augoria. Seeing how empty the planet was, Sumèru created the first elves called the Ëlvar during this period. But not all agreed about giving free will to the Ëlvar and some of the gods worried that creating such beings would lead to the very chaos they hoped to avoid.

Eventually, the elves known as the Idani refused to go to Belorèn as Sumèru commanded, and the emissary elves sent to force the Idani to go to Belorèn were killed in a dispute. The event would begin the period known as the Great Debate where the free will of the elves were debated while the loyal elves were kept asleep in vaults under Belorèn.

When Dolgroth's plan to use the elves to conquer the rest of Aliron was rejected, he moved to kill the elves. Sumèru would discovered Dolgroth killing his creations and would chase him away from Belorèn and report what happened to the other gods, which brought a momentary end to the Great Debate.

By the end of the Dawn Age, the elves would retain their autonomy, but would forever yearn for their long forgotten home of Aros. The disappearance of Aros would bring the Dawn Age to an end and the reawakening of the elves would usurer in the beginning of the Era of Awakening.