Age of the Titans
The ancient age when the world was inhabited by spirits, before gods or mortals
Drintera formed out of the void, spinning the disparate elements of primordial chaos into a (mostly) stable planet, though it was still very raw and unfinished. Great elemental spirits, the Titans, arose from the planet’s stone, fire, water, and air and began shaping it according to their nature. Driven to quell the chaotic energy roiling within their elemental forms, they each sought to expand their dominion, to eradicate the influence of the other elements, and to make the new world a pure reflection of their own elemental nature.
Through their struggles with each other, the Titans forged great and terrible weapons and over time shaped the world into what it is today. They filled the lakes and sea beds with pure fresh water, sundered the land into its many islands and continents, and spread seeds and verdant growth across the globe. Eventually the spirits of the forests and meadows, newly born of the swelling plant life that was beginning to cover the world, brokered a final truce between the warring factions, etching the binding oath into the bones of the world and sealing it away beneath mountain and magical ward.
With peace enforced by geas and self-interest, the world grew into a bountiful equilibrium, and the chaos plaguing the elements of the planet slowly subsided. IThe elemental fury driving the Titans gradually lessened; they began to speak with and work alongside one another, even bearing children with Titans of other elements. Eventually, the echoing purpose that had created and driven the great elementals fell completely silent, and the quiet peace drained the last of their energies. They fell into a stupor, finding quiet places in the far corners and depths of the world, and fell asleep, to rest forever as part of the world they had made.
Little is known about this Age, but some relics survive despite the passing of eons. The Titanlaw still holds strong, somewhere beneath the earth, holding the elemental forces of the world in balance. Though many have been lost or destroyed through the Ages, some of the weapons and armor of the Titans still exist, great and terrible arms fashioned of living elements, either hidden away in the Titans’ tombs or wielded by gods or mortals.
And, of course, there are the Titans’ children, born of multiple elements, who became the gods we know today. Free from the somnolence of their parents, only they remember this Age and the tales told by the Titans of how the world was born, and it was their actions that led to the creation of mortals and the Ages that followed.
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