NOVUS Every Major Event

Before the world had laws and meaning there was endless and shapeless entities roaming around a forgotten and abandoned void. This void was home to powerful and ancient celestial magics that had no rhyme or reason; no rules that the entities had to follow. But with this truest freedom came truest empty. As there was nothing to bind these formless abstract creatures, there was nothing to shape them; they were in all regards “nothing” themselves. And yet after an endless age these creatures began to dream. Dream of things they could not understand for their dreams where of no such reality they could comprehend. As if dreaming of an incomprehensible desire in sharp fragments of their unknown wants and hopes. From these ancient dreams the void started to shift and change. Those creatures whose desires meant their entire being, became that dream. Their wants for something non-existent shaped their bodies into true shapes and from these manifested true forms the Antediluvian Primordial Gods where formed.

From these Dreams 8 Antediluvian Gods where born;

• Kirioshi - God of Nature and Protection

• Nephthys - Goddess of Nature and Healing

• Palalikranox - Dragon God of Space and Time

• Esege Malan - God of Mortality and the Soul

• Danu - God of the Ocean

• Orcus - God of Destruction

• Sarashmi - Goddess of Music and Sound

• Pisatao - God of Control and Order

From the creation of the Antediluvian Celestials a world was beginning to form. Palalikranox created the flow of time and the space unto which a canvas of creation could be painted. Unto this canvas Kirioshi, Nephthys and Danu created a vast and complex nature. Many plants and rocks and caverns and mountains were formed; intermingling together in a chaotic dance. Vast and impossibly deep oceans cracked the earth as the colossal sized Danu swam his way through earth to create the water that would seperate continents. As he swam, the little cracks of the earth would expand creating rivers and canals. Whilst beautiful this land was empty and so hand in hand Esege Malan and Sarashmi created smaller imperfect souls to roam this earth. Esege Malan created the concept of their being; the finite life which these creatures would live and the way unto which they would eventually die. But these shapeless creatures were much like the Gods were before this beautiful canvas and so Sarashmi breathed song and sound into their forms. Singing tunes of hopes and desires that could shape these creatures as too did the desires shape the Gods. But the world whilst beautiful and free, was chaotic and unordered. And so Pisatao created order; perfected Esege Malan’s design and merged Palalikranox’s dream with that of those of Kirioshi, Nepthys and Danu. From this order, Pisatao’s younger brother was formed; Orcus the god of destruction. Orcus made sure none of these new lesser creatures would damage the earth the other gods so tirelessly made and so he created natural disasters, famine, plague and early death. But he was not evil and followed closely behind his brother, Pisatao to keep the order he so dearly loved.  
Following this new formed world, several new Gods were created upon watching their kin fill their desires. These new gods, known as the Lesser Primordials, built upon the Antediluvian Celestials and created many new concepts and dreams.
  16 Lesser Primordial Gods where formed;

• Nongshaba - Goddess of Animals

• Avhallen - Goddess of Knowledge and Curiosity

• Houjin - God of Spirits and Memories of the Dead

• Meili and Mimir - Twin Goddesses of Fate and Destiny

• Lokgir - God of Farming and Harvest

• Saga - Goddess of History, Poetry and Stories

• Zighor Avor - God of Plants and Forests

• Myrna - Goddess of Seasons

• Naja - God of Running Water and Streams

• Anu - God of the Sky

• Siea - Goddess of the Moon

• Aramguol - God of War and Victory

• Gesutan - God of Family and Blood Ties

• Narall - God of Decay

• Iiberat - Goddess of Violence

• Shera - Goddess of Fertility

For the next few hundred years, due to the efforts of the gods, various early races began to form and unlike before where each of these lesser mortal races appeared to be random in appearance and type, now they began to change due to evolutionary practices. Each mortal group began to favour certain gods and worship them, as well as choose unique environments to live in which changed their physical attributes due to natural selection. Some of these “mortals” became more magic based rather than fleshy and “ascended” to other realms.
  Also during this time new Lesser Primordials were created;

• Magus - God of Magic

• Lokh Shava - God of the Desert

• Sept - Goddess of Death

• Demonic

• Divine

• Neutral

• Fae

• Cosmic

During this age many mortal races developed and flourished, creating small civilisations and cultures, closely tied to whatever god they worshiped. No wars occurred and the only major incidents were minor squabbles between mortal kingdoms that were quickly and swiftly ended by whatever God ruled that area. All Gods, whilst having their own territories and relationships, where in harmony with everyone, with Pisatao being the de facto leader of the Gods, with Palalikranox and Orcus coming in a close second.

Ever since Orcus originally fell in love with Sarashmi he had been blocking yet building up his feelings to the point of obsession. He had become the God of Destruction, Deceit and Jealousy whilst his fellow gods were none the wiser, He had began plotting how to take Sarashmi for himself. One night he went to Sarashmi asking for her aid in creating a new life form, using the guise that he had no single race worship him and wished for that to change. Believing Orcus was a good friend and trustworthy, Sarashmi followed him back to his domain, where he forced himself on her hoping that their union would result in him becoming more like her. Esege Malan, worried for his wife as she had not returned in some time, used their shared Desire to find her, only to see she was trapped within Orcus’s chaotic realm. Calling on Palalikranox, Pisatao and Kirioshi to aid him, the Gods quickly broke into Orcus’s realm and rescued Sarashmi before further harm could be done. There, Pisatao and Palalikranox bound Orcus to a section of the Celestial Council to await a trial to determine what to do with him.

For the first time in history, one of the Gods had harmed another and broke the delicate order Pisatao had cultivated. As a result of this, Orcus was put on the first ever trial and was sent to be forever locked away in a newly created chamber within the Celestial Council, to only be awakened when Sarashmi herself said the word. Whilst he could not move or interact with NOVUS in any way, he was conscious and could only act as a helpless observer. During this time as well, Pisatao also became the God of True Balance, and took on his brothers destruction duties, upholding the balance of NOVUS by himself.

The death gods started to believe a lie Orcus was perpetuating; that Sarashmi slept with Orcus willingly, Esege Malan becoming so jealous he made up a major lie. The death gods, not knowing what to believe and so they confronted Esege Malan, with Narall speaking for them. Believing Narall to be in league with Orcus, in a fit of rage Esege Malan destroys Narall’s body, forcing his soul back into the endless void. This is the breaking point that cause the gods to outright go to war.