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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jgsugden" data-source="post: 8114022" data-attributes="member: 2629">The quick version:The universe was all there was, and it created two children - the Light (Good) and the Dark (Evil).The light and Dark spawned Tiamat, Bahamut and Vorel. Tiamat and Bahamut feuded for tens of thusands of years, spawning the matter of the universe and killing Vorel in their fervor. Tiamat and Bahamut put an end to death once they understood it.From the cast off matter of their battles rose Giants and Dragons. The dragons created Elves and Dwarves. The Dragons, Elves, Dwarves and Giants discovered 12 great power sources, and 12 amongst tem rose up as the first Gods. They in turn created other Gods. The Gods fought each other. Some were banished to other planes, others were killed when new beings took their power source. In their battles, they created angels as their servants.One Angel, Asmodeus, convinced the Gods to reinstate death to allow their neverending battles to reach a conclusion. He took stewardship of the dead. He evolved his Angels into the first Devils.Then, the Far Realm crashed into the known universe, shattering the barriers between planes (and spawning the Shadowfell, Feywild and Etheral Plane).  In the Hells of Asmodeus, countless Devils were corrupted and became Demons.  They sought to control and expand the rift to the Far Realm in the Hells, and the Devils rose to stop them - thus beginning the Blood War.  Soon after, the Gods realized their powers could be enhanced by using the souls of mortals.  They began to trade power for access to souls, creating priests (who gave their faith in exchange for power) and warlocks (who contracted for power).  The Gods began to create a vast array of races to worship them.The Raven Queen, a mortal of great guile, slew a God and spread the Gods power amongst the people of the world, creating God Touched. A PC that follows the rules of the PHB and DMG. If you're not God Touched, then hitting negative HPs kills you, etc...I have a simple cosmology: One Prime Material Plane, One Hell (with regions), One Heaven (with regions), One Astral Sea (with pocket dimensions), One Elemental Plane (with pockets of each element), The Positive Energy Plane, the Negative Energy Plane, the Far Realm, and three Transitive Planes: Shadow (Negative/Prime), Feywild (Positive/Prime)and Etheral (Far Realm/Prime).</blockquote>

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