The Age of Immortals

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Before there was time there was only the void that is nothing, and from the void sprang forth the Two that have many names, the rock and the sun, order and chaos, light and darkness, and as day can only be understood by those that have seen night, so were the Two, for they each existed only as an opposite of the other, and they drew together, and destroyed each other, and time began and the universe was created.

From tiny fragments of the Two, great Immortal beings arose, and the great beings looked upon themselves and rejoiced, for they were themselves, and the universe was new, and thus began the Age of Immortals.

The Immortals gathered together in a place they called "Godshome" or "The Celestial Court", and they did many wondrous things. They explored their universe, with all it's myriad planes and dimensions, they created other beings, who are the mortals, and they found pieces of the Two, left from the creation. These pieces they hid for they were most potent and dire. The Mortals called their creators gods and other names of worship, and did their bidding and were their servants.

No mortal can say what began the Godswar, but war they did. The Immortals were divided into factions and Immortal fought Immortal and many were destroyed, they were stripped of their powers and had their material forms scattered, others were trapped in the loops and twists of the fabric of reality, and seek even still to escape. The Mortals saw their Gods destroying one another, and they were afraid, but no one could hide from the fury of the Gods and countless were slain.

Xanadu, the Dragon Father, saw his children being destroyed, and he wept for he could not protect them. Finally, after an immeasurable time of war when all the factions had been devastated and weakened so that none could win, Xanadu spoke. He spoke of a Covenant, where the Gods would never war on each other directly, or interfere in the worlds of the Mortals, but should work through mortal Agents, and the Immortals, who could see that no faction might win, agreed.

(The major cause of the conflict seems to have been in regard to the material worlds, though no mortal records survive from that time, nor will any of the Great Powers speak openly of it. Eventually, a full scale war ensued, and the Powers fought for ages untold, until they came to a bitter standstill. Unable to continue a "hot" war, they agreed to a Covenant that would limit their aggression against each other, and their full scale incursions into the material world. By this Covenant, the Mortals gained some measure of control over their own destinies, H.H).

The Immortals created the Lords of Balance, who are mortal, and whose job is to safeguard the Covenant, and they set the children of Xanadu before all the other mortal races, so that they were only lesser than the Gods themselves.

Then Argetlam spoke and asked that if Mortals were to rule, what was to happen to the Immortals, and he was answered. Gwydion read from his book that contains the thoughts of all those who have been or will be, and said that at the end of time the Covenant will be broken and the War of the Gods will begin again, and night will fall. Argetlam was pleased with this answer but many of the Immortals were afraid and they forbade Gwydion to ever again reveal that which he knows.

And thus the Age of Immortals passed, but in the future time it will return, and the forces of Darkness will be scattered and broken.

(Drawn from sources loaned by Abbot Guillame de Molvay, of the Michaeline Order, in Bowcourt. Kind thanks are also extended to Her Radiance, Marquessa Dulciena de Bowcourt, for access to her library's private collection.

-- Hieronomous Haynes, Sage of Carzala, 784 WK.