Creation Myth

Natural World

  • vast featureless land
    • major landmarks like mountains and ravines didn't exist
    • enough arable land to sustain the populations of people
    • basic husbandry, but animal products are a luxury
  • dragons everywhere
    • each breed is based off a Path of incantation magic
      • they taught their most loyal followers how to use incantation magic themselves
    • they intimidated people into serving them
    • they killed anyone who refused



The Happening (need good names for these events lmao)

  • A set of celestials found the realm and decided to intervene. This intervention usually involved sending messengers to the realm to teach those that would listen the rituals used to get power from the celestial's realm. These messengers also organized the much larger rituals used to affect large areas of land.
    • Earth Shaper
      • Created massive land barriers like mountains and ravines to box in strategic locations
      • Sunk problem cities and holdouts into the ground
      • Created underground santuaries for those fleeing the oppression of the dragons
    • Frozen Deep and Tempest
      • Worked together to create dangerous weather storms
      • Frozen Deep made rivers for travel, oceans as isolating landmarks, and sunk other dangerous cities and strongholds
    • Eternal Flame
      • Gave the people the power to fight back against the dragons they were trapped with by the other Primals
    • Untamed Wild
      • Created massive jungles, swamps, etc. to give people places to hide from the dragons.
      • Gave the people the ability to empower the animals to be able to defend themselves.