Creation Myth

The Start

A lone god by the name of Acrien had the power to sculpt pieces of himself into objects and living beings. He took four pieces of himself and created the first four gods. They were to each control one 'element' of Acrien.
There was Aqather who ruled the waters, Eshini, the fire emperor, Galia the earth mother and Dellyia the ruler of air. These realms collided physically so Acrien created a balance, Dunora. Dunora held each elemental realm apart. But before that when they collided, they created the inbetween of these realms. Between air and water there was ice, between water and earth there was marsh, between earth and fire there was magma and between fire and air there was ash.

Giants and Dragons

Acrien then modelled giants and breathed life into them, he devided the giants into types and gave each god a type. They were meant to work for the gods and provide them with gifts. Then Acrien modelled dragons who were also divided into types of metals and alloys, they wanted to do good. Acrien had trouble managing this so created three patron gods to help. The patron god of giants was Grav, he was a giant king ellevated to position of god, then there was Alm and Ful who oversaw the dragons, later Ful turned evil as the first black dragon and half of the dragons followed him dropping their metallic skin and adopting a chromatic one, then the first war began.

First War

Acrien needed help managing this so created another god by the name of Asmiall, the god of fury. Asmiall then split himself creating many angels. They fought to stop the war. Some angels died returning back into Asmiall returning his power. After dragons had enough they started hidding in caves or some built palaces while others escaped to the elemental planes. They began to dot Dunora with treasures.

The First Races

While Acrien was watching the war, giants were tasked with bringing bacl magic essence from Dunora secretly and the four elemental gods worked together creating Dwarves, Tritons, Kenku and Azar dwarves. Each was much tinier than giants and dragons as they were not made by Acrien's techniques. Aldo they were not as obedient and some ran off to Dunora where they built shelters to hide from Acrien. But Acrien of course found them and punished the gods by removing their giants and exilling them to Dunora. Acrien then made Gale, the keeper of Dunora who would watch over Dunora.

The Mutation

Gale encouraged his people to work together and so they did building Adnia, the first civilization but Gale soon got bored and started experimenting. In the forests where nobody went he created Firbolgs and Wood Elves, then he messed with the size of dwarves creating halflings, gnomes and humans, he gave all of them a different personality. As the civilization grew it also became more advanced so Gale split himself into more gods to monitor more things like agriculture, sacrifice, the weather, light and dark, knowledge itself and magic. Then as the civilization advanced it had more reasons for war and so it split up, gods preferring different parts also split up with them.

Historical Basis

Dragons and older giants still recount these events while sometimes miners or explorers may find a broken angel wing somewhere.

Spread

Virtually everyone believes in this.

Cultural Reception

Some races are seen as older and feel more entitled sometimes leading to race wars.