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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 1173827" data-attributes="member: 151">Stream of Consciousness is always good. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  Quick summary of the Primals, as far as the players know, so far: At some point, the Cosmology came into existence.  Nine Primal beings, powerful aspects of, well, Primal forces came into existence.  These beings manufactured the Prime and it's twin, the Mirror Prime.  Why they did it is a mystery, but the prevailing opinion is that it was just their nature (Fish gotta swim and all that). As time passes, the Dragons enter the picture.  I haven't figured out exactly where or from whom.  However, they are creatures of the Prime, and they thrive there.  The Primals, however, haven't stopped wielding chaos in their wake, and the Dragons try to avoid them whenever possible.  The dragons, good and evil, adapt to the constantly changing environments (reds and golds to fire, for example).  The dragons grow more powerful, and invent magic (or discover it). The leshay come next, and their inheritors, the elves.  As the world has now become more solidly formed, the primals are now house-wreckers, intermittently appearing out of nowhere, and ruining anything the dragons, leshay, elves or others create.  The Primals do not care, apparently. For the safety of every living thing on the Primes, a great alliance is formed (that is all but forgotten today) and with the aid of the dieties Pelor, Ehlonna and Heironeus, the primals are battled, contended with and ultimately imprisoned.  Each prison is sealed deep under the earth and protected by powerful wards from each of the three dieties, their locations erased from the minds of all invovled as a protection.  Essentially asleep, their prisons are weakening, due to interefernce from others, such as Fraz'Urb Luu. The Primals aren't entirely 'thinking' beings, per se.  They are like super powerful primal elementals, to some extent.  When they escape, revenge won't be a motivation...their thoughts are too alien to even encompass the concept.  The Fire Primal lives to burn, to smolder, to melt things and to consume.  He is the essence of FIRE, and his nature is what he is.  The problem is his nature is horribly lethal, and he doesn't know or care, as far as the mortal races know.  This is partly what I'm shooting for, here.  I'm somewhat influenced by the Scarred Lands here, in that my thoughts are that at least one Primal helped the mortal races stop the others, and another would probably be indifferent. In truth, I haven't even defined all the Primals, though I'm working on a list like so:FIREWATEREARTHAIRLIGHT/POSITIVESHADOW/NEGATIVEPOISON/? Why nine?  Well, they are all Neutral, alignment-wise, but Nine is something of a magic number for the game.  Nine Binders (ancient artifacts), Nine blades of Vitaesis (which ARE alignment related) and a few others. As for that Mirror Prime I mentioned?  It's now the Shadow Plane, dominated by the Shadow King, who draws all color and light into his Citadel at the center of the plane (and who is, in fact, the Shadow of Tharizdun, himself). Which just created an interesting possibility that you set off in my head...what if the event that transformed the Shadow Plane from the Prime was actually tied to the Shadow Primal?  I never considered the possibliity, but some of the Primals could be on the Shadow Plane, as well.   How that would interact with the Shadow King, I'm not sure. Hmmm......</blockquote>

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