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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tglassy" data-source="post: 6965566" data-attributes="member: 6855204">What follows is just one school of belief regarding the creation of the world, and is the most widely accepted explanation in the Continent of Elindil.  The Elemental Planes have a more direct role in the creation of the world than in some other settings.  The gods, or at least some powerful beings who wanted to create the world, delved into those planes at the beginning, bringing out Elementals to help them shape the world.  Those Elementals did so, acting as a channel from their plane to the Material Plane.  Thus, every body of water, area of land, mountain, and current of air has their own Elemental.  The Sun was born from a single Fire Elemental.  These Elementals keep the world together through the force of their will, siphoning power from their planes to do so.  This process has been stable for thousands of years. But this is just how the world was created.  More specifically, the matter of the world.  Life came elsewhere, magic from somewhere else.  A number of pantheons have risen, each of them claiming to be the original.  But everyone knows of the Elementals. Travel to the Elemental planes is possible.  And at times, living souls have died there.  Souls that die in the elemental planes are unable to leave.  After millennia trapped in that elemental plane, the living soul eventually coalesces a body.  These are the Genies.  They do not remember anything from the soul that gave them birth.  That soul simply gave them life, their personality, who they are, is determined by the element they rose from.  These Genies declared themselves the natural rulers of the Elemental Planes, and few could argue.  They are powerful.  Some are so powerful, they can even alter the very fabric of reality, granting wishes to those to whom they grant favor.  Sometimes, they come to the Material Plane, or mortals make their way to the Elemental Planes. Having started their existence as mortals with mortal souls, they are capable of having children with mortals.  When this happens, a Genasi is born, though the Genie rarely care about their offspring.   In ancient times, whole groups of people went into the planes, and decided to stay.  Over generations, their bodies were altered by the magic of those realms, to create the Aarakocra, the Tritons, the Goliaths and the Teiflings.  When these races made their way back to the Material Plane, they were met with mostly fear and revulsion, especially Teiflings, who resembled the demons of their collective religions.  The Genasi were accepted a little more, for often they could hide their heritages.  Divine magic is not unheard of, but rare.  Many people don't believe in the gods, or in demons for that matter.  They know the Elementals exist, but for some, the divine is just too much.  There are Clerics, but they are typically met with suspicion by those who doubt, and awe by those who believe.  Every now and then, a surge in elemental power escapes into the Material world.  Those who are touched by it can sometimes have power awaken in them.  These are the Sorcerers.  Then there are dragons.  They are the first race to learn how to harness the power coming from the Elemental Planes.  They later took mortal form, and sired the Dragonborn Race.  There is at least one clan for each color of Dragon.</blockquote>

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