Age of the Gods

by Morgan Kauffman

When the Titans entered their final slumber, their children, the gods, began to roam the world their parents had crafted. They explored what they were capable of, playing and fighting with one another and the forces of the world itself.

Tephera created the first animals from the mud and began her long and joyous task of crafting so many of the creatures that now live today. Manani, her brother, saw how the life his sister was creating would consume the world whole if left unchecked, and invented the concept of death to ensure that his sister could continue creating without overwhelming the world with her creations. Taecant, beset by the philosophical ramifications of the gods’ existence and the possibilities present in the world, began his Great Debate with any other gods he encountered in his wanderings, prompting Zepthanos to usurp dominion over the winds to prove a point about the gods’ agency: that actions, not philosophy, are the root of change in the world Zuvinar gathered all the light in the heavens into the Sun, and crafted the stars and her child Azboran to reflect her glory during the night when she herself was not in the sky.

After the gods had mostly settled into their roles, Tephera began creating a new kind of creature from the earth, ones who could think and speak: the mortal peoples. Each culture of mortals has their own story of why and how they were made, but all accounts agree that the creation of mortals was the last great achievement of the Age of Gods. With the emergence of humanoids, the gods gained new purpose and reasons to act upon the world beyond their immediate vicinity and desires.