Thus, the Reshaping began.
Yamma, First of
The Ten, awoke to chaos. The Obsidian War broke reality and unbound the Titans from their slumber, and much of Vivrah's Divinity had split across the universe into five new entities, two of whom merged with Titans themselves. Yamma, once mortal himself, knew he had to restore order and reseed mortal life. The Obsidian War had just ended, and now Yamma began a new crusade: to pacify an unbound reality.
Two Titans did he recruit to his side: Alindr, Titan of Order, and Laianath, Titan of Death. They say the nascent Divinities growing in their opposites (Marzak, Titan of Chaos, and Ix'kythael, Titan of Life) and knew they would need to pick sides. Yamma granted them portions of his Divinity and required only that they bend their domains to the benefit of a reality more conducive to mortal life: Alindr needed to bring order, but not too much order, and Laianath needed to protect the souls of the dead, but not bring death to all. They agreed, and the Three were born. Together, they built
Yophas, the Eternal Design. Alindr designed Yophas: the planes, the lunar-arcane, all of it. Yamma slew the physical Titans (Fire, Earth, Air, and Water) and built Yophas with their infinite elemental powers channeled through his Divinity. Laianath enchanted the Titans' corpses to stay dead and never disturb the planes. It is this event that is most often specifically referred to as The Reshaping, although it is sometimes given the name of "The Great Ordering" and "The Birth of Yophas."
Even with this enchantment and despite their bodies forming the planes themselves, the Titans' incomprehensible elemental power could not be contained. Thus, the elementals were born.
Marzak and Ix'kythael could not be slain, however. They could be killed, yes, but they could not be slain like the non-Divine Titans. And, during the Great Ordering, Yamma discovered three more nascent Divinities born of Vivrah's endless conquest, hate, and lust for the End. Yamma saw a Dark Pantheon that, if allowed to mature into full-fledged gods, would surely destroy all Yamma and his allies built. So, the final plane was built:
Accorion, the Halls of Black. At its heart, five planar prisons for the nascent Divinities of the
Obsidian Lords, with countless new prisons laid atop them as more and more evils were imprisoned by Yamma. This event, known as The Shackling of the Five, would directly cause
The Reckoning countless millennia later.
Yamma split his Divinity and created seven more gods to handle the many other aspects of the natural world and mortal life. These seven, known as the Children, would complete the pantheon of
The Ten. With the Great Ordering, The Shackling of the Five, and the Birth of the Seven, Yophas was ready for life. Under Yamma's guidance, the Ten spread across Yophas and created and/or oversaw the reseeding of mortal life. Thus, the Age of Rebirth began, though many racial and cultural creation myths take their Reshaping origins further than this moment---and some of the most recent Pre-Reckoning discoveries indicate that the time between the Reshaping and the Reckoning may have been much longer than believed.
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