Genesis, and the First Era
In the beginning, there was nothing but ageless chaos. This may be considered the first of the gods: Molous, Seed of Chaos. The concepts of “time,” “space,” “matter,” “planes,” and “universe” do not make any sense at this point; “existence” nearly makes sense, but is so entwined with raw chaos that any further inspection is useless.
Spontaneously, the chaos split. A material plane formed, and the various upper planes, lower planes, and planes parallel to the material plane sprung into existence out of the chaos. Two of the other gods of the First Wave were thus formed: Donar, Worldfather, whose will is entwined with the creation of the material plane; and Ura, Weaver of the Planes, whose will is entwined with both the separation of the planes, and the bonds that connect them. Donar and Ura consider themselves twins, and consider Molous to be their father. Molous does not acknowledge them, or anything, really; he remains a force of formless chaos.
From the old chaos came other beings of Molous’ will. The most powerful of the Celestials, Fiends, Fey, and Elementals were born of this initial chaos. The alliances, conflicts, and boundless immortality for all of these beings spread across all layers of existence for some unknown stretch of time.
Between Ura, Donar, and these deathless expressions of power and will, chaos became structure, and the worlds became bound and unbound both by all manner of physical and natural laws. These laws were written, unwritten, and re-written numerous times.
Theologists suspect that much of what the world of Naria calls “magic” relates to tapping into the possibilities on the other side of these laws: skirting the laws by the power of the previous lack of natural laws, or by invoking the echoes of natural laws that were since overwritten.
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