The Conflict
Prelude
In the beginning, all was a watery void cast into darkness. In this darkness dwelt Kahré, the Abyssal One and her followers, the aboleths. Their empire reigned for eons before from the darkness emerged Sharun-sharek, the Voidcreature. Kahré and Sharun-sharek did battle for another eon and an age until Kahré split Sharun-sharek. From the corpse of the Voidcreature spelt the Cosmos itself, Life and Death, and with them the Four Elements: Water, Earth, Fire, and Air. Light too, broke forth from the killing blow of Kahré, blinding the Abyssal One and sending the Abyssal One deep beneath the primordial waters. There, in her weakened state, the Abyssal One was submerged beneath the weight of the Plane of Water and the Titan of Waves, Takuroa.
None know what exactly happened in the interim. The first second generation of gods of the Heavenly Council were born, including Rashi, Lacorré, Calorba, and Talessra. The Titans themselves were naught but forces of chaos, each striking at their opposite—Earth against Air; Water against Fire. It is said that in this time, the Heavenly Council attempted to create races of mortals or even shape a plane for themselves, but the conflicts of the Prime Titans always undid their work.
And so a great battle was waged across the Cosmos with the gods of the Heavenly Council trying to push back against the forces of chaotic elemental energy that continued to push against them. Yet the gods were young and inexperienced and many almost fell to the sheer power of the Titans. They soon realized that in order to create order, they must use the energies of the Titans against the Titans themselves. And so they sowed further discord between the virtues of Earth and Air; Water and Fire. Each became more infuriated with the other until it was all they could do. The dominions of each Titan became their Planes Elemental Planes and the place between the circle of water, earth, fire, and air became calm and barren. Atop this island of peace the gods built the Celestial Mountains which oversee all the lower planes. And beneath them, the crafted the Realm of Souls, to house those spirits who could not be contained beyond. And betwixt the two, they carved their most beloved creation—the Material Plane—where they vowed to put their collective energies to create something truly new, special, and good.
After an age of conflict and the settlement of the new ordering of the cosmos, the gods of the Heavenly Council attempted to treat with the Prime Titans, and in particular the Titan that had helped seal the Council's biggest threat, Kahré, beneath the Plane of Water. They offered a marriage to bind the Council to the Prime Titans, and arranged for the goddess Rashi to be paired to the titan Takuroa, though the other Titans grumbled and quaked that they had not been chosen to receive a match. Yet this only precipitated the events recounted in the tale of how the goddess
"Lacorré Stole The Heart of the Sea".
Immediately after the War of the Titans, the Elemental Planes were created by the proximity to the forces of the Prime Titans. Here is where all elemental energy seeps in from and where great realms of water, earth, fire, and air can be found without equal. The space between the Inner Planes became the Material Plane, with the Celestial Mountains overlooking it and the Realm of the Souls hidden beneath it. This peace also allowed the twin mirror realms of the Feywild and the Shadowfell, to form naturally, and outside the control of either the Heavenly Council or the Prime Titans. With no deities to govern their creation, the Feywild and the Shadowfell developed independently and generated their own unique divinities.
Historical Significance
Little physically remains of the War of the Titans and none were around to observe and record the event. All of the textual evidence for the War comes from collective sources gathered in the
Heavenly Codex and the
Titan's Creed.
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