Albion

The Prime Millenia and The Myth of Creation

In the beginning of this realm, there was nothing. Then, The Dawnfather and The Stormlord created the sky and filled it with light. The Dawnfather joined with the The Moonweaver to separate the light from the darkness, creating the sun, the moon and stars. With the invention of the first day, The Wildmother and The Allhammer joined to create the earth, carving it into vast planes, deep trenches, and tall mountains. The Wildmother then filled the trenches they had dug with water, forming the seas and oceans. This water caused the first plants to grow, introducing life to the land and sea.   With the land, sea and sky formed, The Wildmother and The Allhammer brought forth the first creatures to roam them. These creatures were aided by The Changebringer, who helped them to adapt to the lands they settled in. In this time, The Platinum Dragon also brought creatures in this time, introducing the first of his kind to the realm, designed to be its protectors.   With the world formed and filled with numerous creatures, together, the gods brought forth intelligent races of their own creation as well as from other planes. These early people were given guidance by The Platinum Dragon, The Arch Heart, The Lawbearer, The Knowing Mistress and The Matron of Ravens and were sent into the world to make it their own, bear children and prosper, for this world was made for humanity.   With humanity spread across the world, other forces now looked to influence it. The Ruiner and The Cloaked Serpent created their own creatures and races, designed to prey on the creations of the other gods. Alongside them, The Strife Emperor looked to exacerbate this, rallying battle-ready races to his name in the pursuit of war. The Scaled Tyrant, seeing The Platinum Dragon’s influence on the realm, introduced her own minions to terrorise the land. The Spider Queen also sent her followers to the world to continue her pursuit of The Arch Heart’s creations.   Both The Lord of the Hells and The Whispered One on the other hand looked to influence the existing people for their own ends, corrupting them both in body and mind in the process, while The Crawling King, displeased with the formation of the land, created the realm’s Underdark. This lay beneath the earth to be a home all though who would be shunned by the realm’s creators.   Worst of them all though was The Chained Oblivion, a being who all other gods rightfully feared. Desiring the nothingness that once inhabited the space the realm now filled, The Chained Oblivion secretly worked towards returning the world to the pitch-black void it came from.   ----------------------------------------   The continent of Concordia is lush and vibrant land, filled with diverse people, cultures and landscapes. However, this was not always so as, thanks to an event known only as 'The Confluence', the very fabric of the realm was once completely altered.   Long ago, a powerful mage (in the midst of his experiments manipulating the weave) caused the Inner Planes to 'bleed' into the Prime Material. This caused unimaginable destruction. Growing nations were torn down, entire races were pushed to the brink of extinction and valuable knowledge was forever lost in the years which the Elemental forces ravaged the world, shaping the landscape forever as they did.   Eventually, a group of powerful individuals rose up and were able to control the chaos and minimise the Inner Planes' influence on the land, closing most of the portals which connected them to the continent before vanishing completely.   To this day, no knowledge of the individuals who caused or corrected the events of 'The Confluence' has been found. Nor is there much written history still in existence from the time before this. However, for the last five hundred years, the people of Concordia have focused on rebuilding their civilisation and adjusting to life around the remnants of this catastrophe.