Primordial Entities: Genies and Elder Gods
Beyond the Cadrithic Pantheon and Tsaedo, other powerful entities exist within Cilladion, even if their time has long passed, in favour of the Cadrithic faiths. These beings transcend even the culture of pre-Disaster Cadrith, and were forgotten long before the Cadrithic Peoples arrived in New Cadrith.
The world of Cilladion was created by paracausal primordial beings, such as genies and elder gods, who are even further removed from mortal affairs than the Cadrithic Pantheon. As a result, their influence is harder to discern, and their actions are more often than not attributed to other deities.
Genies, spanning the range from flame-wielding Efreeti to airborne Djinni, and earthen Dao to aquatic Marids, are much more material than their elder god brethren. The very elements and building blocks of Cilladion are courtesy of genies, with the world being built from the primordial soup of various elemental planes combining and emulsifying. Post-creation, the genies linger on, less as conscious deities, but as residual background radiation, as cosmic remnants of creation, drifting along the weave of magic. This weave of remnant genie energy is responsible for the creation of many elemental and wild magic sorcerers, and also for the spontaneous creation of Genasi, who, seemingly at random, are imbued with remnants of primordial power. Some genies retain some degree of personality and personal agency, but their influence on the material realm is past, mostly from their own choice, having decided to reside in their elemental planes. Some of the actions attributed the Tsaedo's ancestor spirits are, in reality, actions caused by genies, and some tenets of the Tsaedo are likely borrowed and inspired by prehistoric genie lore.
Elder Gods, or Great Old Ones, are less material, and more psychosomatic. While the Cadrithic Pantheon has deities to cover every range of living experiences, the Elder Gods cover the most basic and primal of these natural emotions, without any character beyond this pure totality of emotion. Rarely are these constructive or balanced feelings: the Elder Gods are not known for their rationale or temperance, and in many cases, are inherently self-destructive or short-lived in the material realm. Many Elder Gods do not possess names, or rather, do not share the incomprehensible knowledge that their name would bring to any mortal ear. Instead, they occupy singular emotions and overwhelming impulses, offering power and a chance to spread influence on a world utterly antithetical to them, and take on forms and names most pleasing to their followers. These gods are barely attached to Cilladion, connected only by the faintest strings drawn from their mortal puppets. This separation is a result of their near-destruction at the hands of their own offspring, the Hellspawn. Existing as the physical manifestations of the Elder Gods' personalities and emotions, the devils and demons were self-destructive, relentless, and entirely bent on the annihilation of all realspace. Unable to control their bastard creations, due to the inherent single-mindedness of their own existences, the Elder Gods were driven out far from Cilladion, further than even the Abyssal realm, except for one. The last Elder God created true mortals, without the single-mindedness of the other beings, and shattered themself, imbuing the first mortals with their power, forming the Cadrithic Pantheon. However, even with this, the Elder Gods remain cut off from Cilladion, separated by the Abyssal and Infernal realms, and the Celestial Plane itself. However, some tendrils of their influence occasionally reach the deepest dreamers, creating mortal puppets and prophets on Cilladion by which they tether themselves to their old creation.
The world of Cilladion was created by paracausal primordial beings, such as genies and elder gods, who are even further removed from mortal affairs than the Cadrithic Pantheon. As a result, their influence is harder to discern, and their actions are more often than not attributed to other deities.
Genies, spanning the range from flame-wielding Efreeti to airborne Djinni, and earthen Dao to aquatic Marids, are much more material than their elder god brethren. The very elements and building blocks of Cilladion are courtesy of genies, with the world being built from the primordial soup of various elemental planes combining and emulsifying. Post-creation, the genies linger on, less as conscious deities, but as residual background radiation, as cosmic remnants of creation, drifting along the weave of magic. This weave of remnant genie energy is responsible for the creation of many elemental and wild magic sorcerers, and also for the spontaneous creation of Genasi, who, seemingly at random, are imbued with remnants of primordial power. Some genies retain some degree of personality and personal agency, but their influence on the material realm is past, mostly from their own choice, having decided to reside in their elemental planes. Some of the actions attributed the Tsaedo's ancestor spirits are, in reality, actions caused by genies, and some tenets of the Tsaedo are likely borrowed and inspired by prehistoric genie lore.
Elder Gods, or Great Old Ones, are less material, and more psychosomatic. While the Cadrithic Pantheon has deities to cover every range of living experiences, the Elder Gods cover the most basic and primal of these natural emotions, without any character beyond this pure totality of emotion. Rarely are these constructive or balanced feelings: the Elder Gods are not known for their rationale or temperance, and in many cases, are inherently self-destructive or short-lived in the material realm. Many Elder Gods do not possess names, or rather, do not share the incomprehensible knowledge that their name would bring to any mortal ear. Instead, they occupy singular emotions and overwhelming impulses, offering power and a chance to spread influence on a world utterly antithetical to them, and take on forms and names most pleasing to their followers. These gods are barely attached to Cilladion, connected only by the faintest strings drawn from their mortal puppets. This separation is a result of their near-destruction at the hands of their own offspring, the Hellspawn. Existing as the physical manifestations of the Elder Gods' personalities and emotions, the devils and demons were self-destructive, relentless, and entirely bent on the annihilation of all realspace. Unable to control their bastard creations, due to the inherent single-mindedness of their own existences, the Elder Gods were driven out far from Cilladion, further than even the Abyssal realm, except for one. The last Elder God created true mortals, without the single-mindedness of the other beings, and shattered themself, imbuing the first mortals with their power, forming the Cadrithic Pantheon. However, even with this, the Elder Gods remain cut off from Cilladion, separated by the Abyssal and Infernal realms, and the Celestial Plane itself. However, some tendrils of their influence occasionally reach the deepest dreamers, creating mortal puppets and prophets on Cilladion by which they tether themselves to their old creation.
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