Cosmology



The cosmos have a long story divided into times. Even though this wiki focuses on the prime material world Agonia, many worlds were created as a result of these cosmic events.

Time of the Maelstrom
Giant collective intelligence are formed from the chaotic void of the universe....these are the primary elementals of Fire, Air, Water and Earth,

Time of Dissection
The 'Collectives' attract energy to their cores, creating the kernels for the elemental planes.

Time of the Worlds
The Collectives begin creating worlds of their own design. Worlds of fire, or water or solid earth etc....

Time of Creation
The Collectives embark on a collaborative project. They create the Colossals. Massive world building creatures with unique creative abilities. They let them create world after world as a group, making adjustments to the Colossals to perfect the process, until finally they build the current world that all the Collectives think very promising. The many unique worlds are created at this time.

Time of Contest
The Colossals resist their creators instructions to retire. Because of their need to create, they tried to destroy the world in order to redo it, and redo it in perpetuity. The elementals battle their creations and imprison them deep into the core of a multitude of worlds. The many unique worlds are secretly connected by the Colossals by planes and they empower individual entities on some worlds to undermine the collectives (Gods).

Time of Flourishing
The collectives while busy creating creatures of all types in their home planes, started making collaborative races for the new world. When one of the Collectives created the dragon race, all the collectives deemed it to be the finest creature and rushed to make their own version. Soon the world teemed with races, and natural developments started to form as well.

The Time of Differentiation
Within each Collective was a myriad of different aspects, some physical aspects, others were philosophical aspects. The Collectives would slowly differentiate as more pronounced aggregates would form within it. Powerful entities would be birthed from the collectives that represented a refinement to the broad energy of the collectives. Entities were created that took the aspect of concrete concepts such as power, compassion, greed, honour which were differentiated from the Collectives and from them they were formed, taking some of their power. The Collectives were powerless to stop this because nothing held a collective together with any tangibly strong binding agent. When a Collective would muse about the nature of sound and meditate on this, sooner or later the thoughts of music in the collective would form an aggregate within it and progress towards differentiated existence and form an entity that was all about sound. Other differentiation from the primary energy Collectives would also naturally evolve such as entities that represented Lava that was birthed from the Fire Collective, or wave from the water Collective. For all intent and purpose, these entities are perceived as gods by the mortal races, but their emergence over the thousand of millennia have progressively weakened the collectives.

Time of the Celestial Planes
The Gods started forming camps, and from these camps came conflict. These different camps created their own celestial and abyssal planes to plan and forward their agendas. Many Gods at this point are unaware of the reason for their initial creation (from now on referred to as Únknown by the Gods). Within these places, the gods used their collective power to create a race of celestial and demonic creatures. *Note: a single god, unlike a collective, is incapable of creating a creature on their own, needing a massive collaborative between gods.

Time of the Dragon Uprising
As the elemental Collective's power waned, the influence of dragons over the sentient beings on the prime world increased until they themselves wanted to be worshiped as gods. Yet despite their power and long life, they were jealous of the gods immortality. So they rose up to challenge the Collectives as master of the universe. A long protracted war ensued. The gods joined both camps, some siding with the dragons, others with the collectives, bringing their armies of celestials and demons. The war nearly wiped out all involved. The Collectives finally won a major battle (a good story awaits here) and treaty talks ensued. The Collectives were severely weakened from the war, so they were not able to bargain from a position of power, and neither were the dragons. The major benefactors of the treaty were the dragons as they were given autonomy as well as becoming Custodians of the prime world. The gods were exiled from the prime world for a protracted period to the lesser worlds that the collectives created in their early times.

Time of the Awakened Races
With their new found influence over the prime world, the dragons started to exercise their power on the world. Unlike the Collectives, the dragons have limited creative power, however they do have the power to alter creatures. They also manage to manipulate minor worlds into prime worlds (mirroring Agonia but different). So when they gain influence over creatures, they bent their wills to alter them towards their own design. Out of this was formed a myriad of distinct humanoid races and creatures. Many races became 'awakened' and formed mighty empires under the watchful eye of the dragons. Most races worshiped only a few dragons that influenced their development. From the lowly goblin to the regal elf, all these races found their place in the world because of the patient shaping of the dragons. But of course because so many things overlap, conflicts occurred between races and gods, but mostly this was the time of great empire building. Some became more dominant with time, others faded to the dark corners of the world.

Time of the Dragon Kings
After millenniums the dragons became more involved in the prime world (Agonia). They saw the new awakened races had achieved much, and at first, the dragons feared that the awakened races had replaced the dragons as the dominant creatures of the planes. However, many also saw the races as wonderful creators of wealth and industry and began to take over the ruling bodies of nations and kingdoms. From their new found subjects, they directed their industrial economy to enrich the lives of the dragons, unbeknownst to most people. Over time, the dragons posing as the aristocracy, became perceived as the chosen of the gods (because of their obvious strength and power) and autocratic governments evolved naturally where the children of the rulers would naturally become the next rulers. The dragons became the true uncontested aristocracy. Through the ages, under the influence of their dragon overlords become central to the mortal realms, they are the gods, rulers, custodian, daemons, everything, in fact, divine magic is even drawn from the dragon flight. This brings us to the current timeline.