Eltar The Patchwork Planet

Long ago, the Kalydrid empire had thrived and spread across the galaxy, built up on the backs of elemental familiars called Eltari summoned from an aethereal plane. After centuries of enslavement and with the support of Kalydrid sympathisers, the Eltari learned how to maintain their own forms within the physical universe without a third party, and so began a revolution; a war for freedom.   The aftermath of this war left the empire in tatters. Many planets were left to their own devices, to start anew from the rubble of a fallen empire, and the majority of Kalydrids found themselves imprisoned on their homeworld. The Eltari leaders were viewed as gods in the eyes of the populace, and with knowledge from the Kalydrid emperor's personal library proceeded to terraform a planet into their own homeworld.     The gods, however, were not of one mind, and so they were never truly happy with their designs. In the end, rather than creating a joint utopia, they segmented the planet with powerful magic, granting dominion of each segment to a different god to do as they saw fit. And so they traversed the stars, visiting many planets that were once a part of the empire for inspiration to craft their own personal utopias, taking some denizens with them to help populate it as well as to serve as templates their fellow Eltari could reference for creating their own bodies.   One of the gods, however, was unsatisfied by this. They wanted more than to just mimic what they found, but to actively create. Using other lifeforms as a template, particularly the Kalydrids, they began manipulating their DNA to create his own vision of life. Some experiments went well, leaving the afflicted sentient albeit often traumatised, but most went poorly, leaving only mindless monsters and aberrations. One of the kalydrid sympathisers pleaded to the other gods to intervene, but to little success. Eventually, he tricked the god and was able to strip them of their physical form, trapping him within the aethereal plane. Feeling outraged at being outsmarted, betrayed and stripped of their autonomy, they directed their efforts further into their creations with the materials they were left with - the very essence of the aether that formed the Eltari.   It was in the following years that the first daemons manifested in the physical universe, endangering the paradise the gods had strived to create. Whilst the gods were powerful enough to defeat the daemons with ease and could contain the danger to Eltar, the same couldn't be said for the other planets connected to the aethereal plane by the technology of the Kalydrids.   As the Gods try to maintain their power through spinning events and calling champions and emissaries to represent them throughout the universe and seal the entrances to the aethereal plane, the sly kalydrid equally has plans of his own to usurp the gods who showed themselves to be just as self-fulfilling as the former Kalydrid empire, sowing the seeds of dissension amongst the populace, whilst the fallen god experiments further and further with just what they can create...