The history of the world of Cwelythvir, though filled with hope and promise, starts with the horror of the Archaic Divinities.
Creation:
Since time immemorable the Chaos roiled with physical, magickal, and psychic energy. Large storms of such matter covered the realm, ripping each other apart and combining in a neverending cycle of ravage and renewal.
Coalescence:
Eventually, these storms of energy coalesced into large clouds of dust and lightning, or brilliant, shining stars.
Origin:
From this violent maelstrom the Archaic Divinities were formed. They took manifestations strange and unique, taken from the chaos around them.
Some of the most notable of these beings included the dreaded serpent Apophis, and the feral wolf Fenrir.
Having sprung from the heart of the realm itself, these
Emergence of Madness:
After the Archaic Divinities were created, the maelstrom of Chaos began to intensify, seemingly wanting to destroy this new barrier to total entropy.
This violent storm wore on the physical forms of the Archaic Divinities. Such devastation proved deletrious not only to the physical forms of the Archaic Divinities, but their psychic stability. Those that were thus afflicted are known as the Slayers of the Consanguine.
Extinction:
Driven mad by the dark will of the world, the Slayers of the Consanguine held shapes warped from malice, and a foul impulse to war against their brethren.
Aeons of strife followed this event, though in the end in the hunted were victorious. The Archaic Divinities banished the Slayers of the Consanguine to the dark reaches of the realm, forever to bask in their hatred,
Formation:
After the Archaic Divinities exiled the Slayers of the Consanguine, they wished to quell the Chaos that ever increasingly strove for annihilation.
In an effort to dispel its infinite power, they used their sorcery to fracture the maelstrom among an infinite number of dimensions. They created these spaces through their will,and wrought great walls of magick to prevent a breach of the storm.
In their realm and those adjacent, they coalesced the Chaos into stars, planets, and comets to help in this restrainment. To construct a shielding bastion amongst the hostile environs, the Archaic Divinities brought together fire, earth, air, and water to make their own world.
In that time, the realm of Cwelythvir was held in a state of primordial savagery. Washes crashed among serrated rocks while lava flowed as rivers through the flatlands.
War:
Despite its vicious nature, the Archaic Divinities held avarice over the beauty and potential of the world. Abandoning the promise of security, they plunged the realm into ruin. The first among these destroyers was the dreaded serpent Apophis. This era would later be known as the Epoch of Belliferous Gods.
Dawn of the Deities:
From the spilt ichor of the Archaic Divinities emerged the first Deities. Their sphere of influence over the world was reliant on the identity of their progenitors. Seeing the Deities as threats to their power, the Archaic Divinities turned their warlike gaze upon their children.
In an effort to save themselves and the world, the Deities in turn harnessed their magick to fight against their creators.
Dawn of the Daemons:
The war between the two factions slowly grew in favor of the Deities. To combat this, the Archaic Divinities summoned from the belly of the world the Daemons to fight under their control.
Though the will of the Archaic Divinities was strong, a few of the Daemons managed to escape from their control. Some even fought for the Deities. In later ages they would be known as the Faerie.
Binding:
Discovering that the barriers of magick between dimensions could be accessed through their magick, a sect of the Deities known as the Id Imprisoners set out to incarcerate the Archaic Divinities and Daemons within these boundaries.
In the end, nearly all of such evil entities were restrained.
Reward:
As a reward to those Daemons that fought against their creators, the realm of Alfheimr was gifted to their lineage.
Meanwhile, the Id Imprisoners were granted the great Mount Olympus.
Other realms were divided amongst the rest of the Deities, though Cwelythvir, through a celestial pact, was deemed to belong to no power. They did not wish to replicate the folly of their ancestors.
The Rise:
After this age of peace, the Deities wished to bestow life upon the world. This life would act as stewards of its power.
From this desire emerged the Empyrean Apostates, who would later become a horrid scourge upon the world.