Pre-Creation

-360,000,000,000,000+ YBKC

Before the creation of Dierde there was "nothing" here... or it seemed.

Summary

Lord AO creates all, the many early realms of TSR and WoTC come and go. In the end, all of everything falls back to chaos and emptiness. The Weave is obliterated and the essence of all that ever existed ceases to exist and yet still has echoes in these empty realms. All of the Forgotten Realms, and other histories exist at the beginning part of the timeline. By the end, all has gone dark. Some gods, artifacts, creatures, and such do find pocket universes to exist within for the time being. (This is important because anything that existed in those realms can have a possibility of existing in the new universe to come for a variety of reasons. There are whole schools of learning in the Grand Athenaeum of Elhyrst trying to find ways to better understand these times. There has been very little progress.)

Creation of the World

There were no exact accounts on how Lord AO created the universe, but nonetheless he was credited for the deed. In some traditions, Lord AO just created the sphere that covered Realmspace, and the goddesses Selûne and Shar, and they later went to create all the worlds and stars, and other heavenly bodies. In other accounts, it was Lord AO who directly created all that exists, not only Realmspace, but also the worlds and heavenly bodies, and even the Astral Sea, using the raw energy of the Phlogiston.

Historical Basis

Uncertain.

Spread

Not well known, but discussed in circles of intelligensia.

Variations & Mutation

Many variations.

Cultural Reception

Questions

Who was Lord AO? Very little is actually known about this entity. How did "he" do this? There are other questions not publicly discussed, but for those with extensive knowledge on the Realmspace of Dierde (and by extension the Realmspace of Toril) they have all types of other questions. Who created the Shells? How? What's with the runes? The Wanderers walking the shell... What was the "First World"?