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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 3936565" data-attributes="member: 8863">The History of the Elder Age:After the world is created, the Ouroboris creates the rules of the Language Primeval, the source of magic, and uses it to become the ruler of the Elder Gods.  The other Elder Gods people the world with the Elder Races: the illithids, beholders, kuo-toa, lizardfolk, yuan-ti, and other similar races.  There are a number of Elder Races which are either now extinct or forgotten (or both).  As a joke, one of the Elder Gods creates humans.  Some say humans were made to mock the powerful races made by the gods as their favorites.  Others say instead that Tharizdun secretly created humans as part of some devious plot.  Whatever the truth, the gods are not amused, and the Elder Races quickly enslave humans.   As the Elder Races develop and grow, their beliefs cause the Outer Planes to coalesce, and the concepts of good, evil, chaos, and law emerge.  New races are born on these Outer Planes, the guardinals stride out of the mists of Elysium, Primus arises on Mechanus and shapes the modrons, the Spawning Stone is spat out of the choas of Limbo and produces the slaadi, and a dark power creates the baern in the Grey Waste (many believe Tharizdun is responsible).  Almost immediately, conflict among the alignments erupts, and new Outer Planes emerge, birthing their own races.  Dismayed by this conflict, the Ouroboris creates the rilmani to restore harmony. Meanwhile, the baern purge the law and chaos tainting the early yugoloths, and placing these taints into larvae, drive them into Baator and the Abyss.The rilmani fail to stabilize the alignments and the Ouroboris fragments into seperate beings: Jazirian, Asmodeus, Merrshalk, and (an unnamed entity of chaotic good alignment).  The remaining portion of the Ouroboris' original essense becomes the Serpent, the master of the secrets of the Language Primeval, and sometimes seen as the source of all magic. Asmodeus falls into ancient Baator, and forms the Nine Hells.  He immediately plots to take back control of the multiverse and forms the devil races of the baatezu from the law-tained larvae to serve as his minions.  The original inhabitats of Baator are brutally dominated by the baatezu. Then many wars erupt anong the Elder Gods, the Elder Races, and the races of the planes.  Some of these wars have names that will log be part of the most ancient legends: the Blood War, Gith's Rebellion, and the Vaati's war against the Queen of Chaos and Mishka the Wolf-Spider.These wars destroy the civilizations of the Elder Races.  Some of the races are destroyed, while others never recover and decline.  Some races are pushed out of the Material Plane to remote parts of the multivarse, while others retreat to the Underdark.  Humans begin to evolve into many of the new humanoid races, since many of them were warped by alien magics or science.  The Elder Age ends.Yeah, a lot of this is pretty much adapted from old-school D&D, but I want to make sure the traditional background is there and woven together into a cohesive whole, rather than the original piecemeal ideas it came from.</blockquote>

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