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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ry" data-source="post: 3513907" data-attributes="member: 8314">Giving this some more thought, I ended up using a kind of quasi-Ptolus approach.  The era of primordial evil ended because a powerful but an overgod trapped them behind a seal.  In Ptolus, the seal is the world.  I have a similar thing going on - but instead of a heavy-handed overgod I've got something called the Runegod that isn't really personified - it's more of a force of goodness - that managed to trap the elder evils when a world was created.The process of creating a world is called Planar Catalysis.However, this did not end the story of the primordial period - the aboleths found the world that had trapped their old masters, but were in no hurry to release the elder evils.  However, divination told the aboleths that their titanic empire would one day end, and to escape this coming cataclysm, they engineered another Planar Catalysis.  Ironically, it was this event that destroyed the Aboleth empire, but it was not entirely a failure.  A world was created, but only a small number of Aboleths survived to enter that realm.  This new world, with far fewer aboleths, had grown a life-force of its own, and this force, wounded by the Aboleths' attempt at Catalysis, awakened.  Plants, animals, and other forms of modern life began to flourish across the world.Meanwhile, The Aboleths' new world advanced through its timeline far more quickly than its neighbour planes, and the aboleths found themselves unable to contact other planes.  Eons passed, and life rose on the Aboleth world.  The Aboleths dominated this life, but mourned - if an aberration can be said to mourn - the loss of so many memories with their lost kin.  New methods of preservation were discovered, and eventually these Aboleths created the first Elder Brains.  Meanwhile, the aboleths nurtured life on their world to the point of sentience, and in time found themselves awash in new breeds of slaves.  With slaves that finally possessed minds of their own, aboleths rejoiced, and began to work strange magics to bend and warp these slaves into different forms.  As the aboleths' perverse mutations were perfected, they began to turn their powers on themselves.  In time, the race fractured, one species occasionally rising in dominance over the others - but largely leaving a core of sea-bound Aboleths beneath the waves, while more freakish monsters were driven onto the land.But the world was flawed, and after many ages, despite the Aboleths' greatest efforts, it began to die.  Some of the few freakish aboleths - now calling themselves Mind Flayers, for their life cycles now were dominated by the unspeakable ceremorphosis forced on their slaves - discovered a method of escape.  They brought their slaves (the giths) with them and crossed the barrier of worlds.</blockquote>

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