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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MPA2000" data-source="post: 7756506" data-attributes="member: 6682107">I find Lovecraftian monsters to be the very foundation for many things. Sorry folks, but I like Immortals over Deities.  Ergo my concept is always that of Mystara.  That being said, I like to use the Marvel Comics (not movie universe) as something to borrow from.Basically the planet (ie the world of the PC's) was run amuck with creatures, created by some omnipotent being.  The being was not good or evil, so the creatures he created had free will to chose, and they chose evil. The omnipotent being was disappointed because his creation only knew destruction and mayhem, so he sought to obliterate them. Some of his creatures, the more intelligent and self-aware (Orcus, Demogorgon, Cthulhu, Asmodeus, etc.), weaved spells of incredible power to escape to other planes and dimensions.  Gaea (Terra), who alone did not succumb to evil, was spared. The omnipotent being decided he no longer wished shackled to his omnipotence, committed cosmic suicide and dispersed his energies to the infinite planes of the multiverse. In doing so, he made Gaea, the first Immortal.  Gaea would be in charge of and ensure the development of the new organisms, being born from both the destruction of the evil ones, and shards of omnipotence from the death of the omnipotent.  As a result of his death, the immortal's energies also created a triumvirate called, The Old Ones.   The Old Ones thus would be responsible for developing mortals on the world of Mystara, until they could be developed to a point to reach Immortality. Unfortunately, every time they attempted to create Immortals, they failed, and the undead were created as result.  Hence was born the Sphere of Entropy. The Old Ones determined that mortals cannot be "made" Immortal, without careful monitoring and culling. Over time they developed and were patrons for the Spheres of Energy, Time and Thought, while Gaea master the Sphere of Matter. Once the Immortals were established, The Old Ones implemented the primary directive:  No Immortal shall take direct action against mortals on the Prime Plane, and then retired from the world and wiped the Immortals minds of their direct involvement in their development.  This is why elder Immortals such as Terra,  Hela, Odin and Thanatos, do not remember their sponsors.</blockquote>

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