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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Storyteller Hero" data-source="post: 8836235" data-attributes="member: 6813635">Short answer: Ask the DM.Lore answer: The cosmos and all the planes in it were originally the stuff of dreams, and the first gods, the Estalar, were formed from the concepts floating in the Great Dream; some say a higher will of both coldness and warmth pulled together the wisps of possibility in the Dream to form the Estalar, and watches over the cosmos from beyond, leaving instructions to gatekeepers/gardeners known as the Overgods to preserve the Cosmic Balance. The First Era was a time of curiosity and exploration as the Estalar swam the ocean of the Dream, but conflict arrived when the Dawn Titans, primordial beings of great power born of the Elemental Chaos, coveted the realms built by the Estalar and began their conquest. The seemingly endless Dawn War between the gods and primordials raged for eons, until a grand project to give new structure to the realms was initiated. The gods built walls between the realms and withheld the keys to the walls' doors from the primordials, preventing the grand armies of Elemental Dominion from reinforcing each other on the battlefields.The Dawn Titans, once on the verge of overwhelming the Estalar, found themselves on the losing end with their forces separated and vulnerable to the gods' ambushes. Treaties were then negotiated, to end the war and prevent the cornered, frustrated primordials from unleashing spiteful destruction in place of their lost paths of conquest.A new Era of the Gods' Dominion began, in the newly formed House of the Dream, known now by many names: Great Wheel, Great Tree, Great Pyramid, etc.This was the beginning of things, and the building of the stage upon which the conflicts of the modern ages now play out.</blockquote>

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