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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 2311558" data-attributes="member: 11697">I use a version of the Planescape prehistory. It was more detailed, more epic in scope, and more evocative than any of the material that came before it in my opinion. Keep in mind I started playing in 3e so 1e material doesn't have any sort of nostalgia in my mind, it's just getting used or dismissed based on its own quality IMHO compared to 2e and 3e material.Here's the loose outline of my own version of that pre-history, with much more detail given to the Outer Planes than any of the others. Not to say I don't have prehistory for the prime and elemental planes, but if I mentioned them it'd be serious spoilers for some later plot arcs in my storyhour. Let's just say pages and pages and pages of detailed material for what happened when and where and according to whom. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Ethereal Deep exists outside time and space, before the formation of the planes -> Elemental planes emerge from the raw probability of the deep ethereal -> prime material forms from the elemental planes -> outer planes slowly form as the abstract incarnations of the 5 pure alignments war with one another -> neutrality fosters a truce and planes of Good, Evil, Law, Chaos, and Neutrality spring into existance. Sigil is already present when the planes form. -> Baernaloths emerge from outside existance, heralds of abstract Evil. Heralds of the other alignments emerge at this time, though they either depart, vanish, or hide themselves before the current era. -> Yugoloths created -> Gehreleths created and Apomps is exiled, forming the plane of Carceri -> Ancient Baatezu and Archons wage war -> Ancients of Mithardir obliterate themselves in a 'crime of Passion' and leave the first Eladrin behind as children -> General of Gehenna creates the Heart of Darkness -> Tanar'ri and Baatezu created and sent into the Abyss and Baator where they colonize the planes and displace the original inhabitants -> Blood War begins, mortal derived gods appear, Abyssal Lords and Lords of the 9 either form or make their presence known. Start of standard Blood War history, all dates not up for question after this point as multiple sources confirm their accuracy.Given that my storyhour/campaign focuses heavily on the politics of the lower planes, a yugoloth civil war, and the prehistory of the Gray Waste, the timeline above is biased towards that in terms of what it mentions and what it glosses over.I've been giving more and more bits of information as I've been slowly writing up the stories of the Baernaloth cycle if anyone is familiar with those. So far I've gotten 6 of 13 written, each with a story and then non-story flavor text describing a specific member of the group of mad Baernaloths known as The Demented. They were never detailed in canon, so I fleshed out a group of 13 individuals and I've been using them since.<a href="http://boards1.wizards.com/showthread.php?t=319652" target="_blank">Tellura Ibn Shartalan, The Dire Shepherd</a><a href="http://www.planewalker.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=2712" target="_blank">Severeth Na’Halastrian, The Wanderer</a> <a href="http://boards1.wizards.com/showthread.php?t=432190" target="_blank">Daru Ib Shamiq, The Lie Weaver</a><a href="http://kmarable.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=353&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=" target="_blank">Harishek Apt Thul’kesh, The Blind Clockmaker</a> <a href="http://boards1.wizards.com/showpost.php?p=4822899&postcount=1" target="_blank">Tarsikus Ibn Meth’kultesh, The Book Binder</a><a href="http://www.planewalker.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=6725" target="_blank">Jezifreth Na’Harsindrian, The Inquisitor</a></blockquote>

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