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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormborn" data-source="post: 3794445" data-attributes="member: 14041">Why not flip it all the way around.  There exists a self organizing and personifying principle to the universe, not a god nor any kind of being but simply a known process.  The first beings to arise were simple elementals, then monsters that reflect the chaotic nature of the universe at that time, primative animals then mosterous humanoids are next,and a millenia ago the PC appropriate humanoids.  In the last thousand years new forces have arisen as the universe grows both more complex and more self aware.  The fey were the first born of the new godlings and taught primative divine magics to druids, followed by celestials and fiends who spread arcane magic.  Then arose the gods, not the authors of creation but its product, some of these evolved naturally from previously inanimate, or rudemintarilly animate, objects while others come from humanoids, fey, celestials, and fiends that tapped into the growing magical energies of the universe to rise in power.  Thus, for example, the sun becomes self aware and then becomes a god.  PCs are proto-deities, beings of exceptional skill and ability that have the potential, but not the certanty, to become powers that both reflect and shape the universe.   Civilization grows ever forward in complexity, but rifts exist between those who follow the 'old ways' from the time before gods while others worship the arising powers and some on the cusp of ascension seek to rule the world.</blockquote>

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