Elder Days
The Elder Days were a time prior to the planets, approximately nine to six billion years ago, forming within the Outlying Space of the Zlaris Galaxy and the Moata Solar System - a time when only the Elder Gods existed. The Dark Times known as the Elder Days speak of the first Eldritch Magic.
The Eight Enduring
The eight members known as The Enduring Ones existed always - Destine, Scythe, Azhrarn, Troilus, Acosador, Crave, Perdita and Solandra.The Creator
Moatama is considered to be the Creator and The Creation - some people do not believe in the Elder Days, as in their belief nothing existed before the Moata Solar System formed in the Zlaris Galaxy, by Moatama.The Elder Tree
The Elder tree èildear, is the most ancient Fey of The Feywild RealmThe First Star
Adriava Demitasse - Was the first of the Living Stars in the Zlaris Galaxy - who divided to create more Stars.Elder Evils
In the Elder Days there were Elder Evils lurking on the fringes of existence - people of Esau, and also Lyre, like to believe they are all gone. However, some remain unseen on the fringes of the Outlying Space, and within the other realms and planes. These immoral Elder Evils have always been there and always will be. Although they can be as powerful as demigods -sometimes more so - they are not actually deities.They have no interested in mortals except to wipe them out - as people are as the tiniest bugs to them.
Moatama along with many deities create and attend their creations - while the Elder Evils seek to unravel them, and guide them to destroy themselves.
The first egg that hatched, created by Moatama during the Elder Days was the first of the Prismatic Dragons known as Zy'pa. Although the era of the Prismatic Dragons is referred to as BG, due to being the time Before the Giants and other Dragons appeared.
The first creature squirmed out from within a mucus cloud, created by Sharran, was a massive Aboleth known as Joalorr - who made a nest deep in the forming world of Esau - of rubble and murky water. Forming the underdark of Ru'Mal and later Ru'Than.
The Darkness
Sharran is a Goddess yet existed before any deities. She is the whole of Outlying Space and the shadows. The First of those known as the Elder Evils.Sharran is thought to have created The Plane of Void as well as Eldritch Magic.
Zav'gon
According to legend, Zav'gon The Horned One (a Tarrasque) is unable to be killed, unless his horn is severed from his body. If his horn is not destroyed, he will inevitably return to claim it.The immortals have not yet discovered a means of destroying his horn, and thus they entombed Zav'gon and a whole city of his mad worshipers in a place now lost to history.
Elder settlement (on the East coast of Munlef region, facing Ibis Bay, within Malnax) is rumoured to be the birthplace of Zav'gon The Horned One.
Leviathan
Leviathan of The Depths - a creature of bestial intelligence whose enormous coils wrap the world of Esau. It sleeps in the deepest trenches of the seas, spawning tsunamis, whirlpools, and earthquakes as it restlessly shifts. Now there are mad cultists seek to use Eldritch Magic to wake the beast and submerge all the lands.Sevu'zua
An ancient Lich named Sevu'zua - this Undead wizard king keeps his soul in a gourd. A massive gourd that is a container made from the hard dry skin of a Dragon Fruit. Usually Gourds are used to carry water or for decoration.* A lich is an Undead being that was once alive, who chose to become Undead in a search of immortality. They are commonly powerful magicians/necromancers or in some cases, kings who preform the rituals to become Undead.
* The phylactery is specifically described as 'a charm or amulet, or repository used to store small parchments bearing holy scripture or arcane writings.'
LANGUAGE
Dark/Deep Speech is the secret language of Elder Evils first spoken in the Elder Days - a language of such evil that even demons and devils avoid speaking it, for fear it might consume them.It is extremely difficult for mortals to learn even a single word of it, but each word is full of dreadful power that could be used to provoke and empower Eldritch magic, or even corrupt physical objects.
Fiends find the language easier to learn than mortals.
Summary
The Elder Days were the time before the Moata Solar System was created by Moatama.
These creatures still exist - creeping in through people's dreams, or ancient texts, or forgotten artifacts.
The Elder Evils are bring great terror and fear to those who know any knowledge of them.
Spread
The Eldritch Order
In the settlement of Elder, there are still an Order of mages, wearing dark grey hooded robes, that study the dark magic of the Eldritch Magic and the Elder Evils from the Elder Days.The runes on their wrists are bloodrune tattoos - "The Flayed": a design like an eye with lines spreading from the centre.
Their influence is hidden in some of the dark secrets and unspoken pacts throughout Esau.
In Art
Identifying Signs
To ordinary mortals, the appearance of a sign is a mysterious phenomenon - foreboding and sinister, to be sure, but without obvious significance.Only individuals who have studied the Elder Days, undergone the proper training and experience, or are unexplainably connected to the Eldritch. Those who are steeped in ancient or forbidden knowledge of the Elder Evils, have a chance to recognize its grim implications.
Those who study Eldritch Magic wear Bloodrunes, which are based on these signs.
To identify a sign for what it is, a character must succeed on an Intelligence (Arcana) or Intelligence (Religion) check, as appropriate.
The check DC depends on the sign's intensity, as set out in the following table. As the effect of the sign becomes more pervasive, its meaning grows ever more clear. A faint sign might be simply unsettling, but at its height, its influence is inescapable.
Intensity DC
Faint = 23
Moderate = 19
Strong = 15
Overwhelming = 11
By succeeding on this check, a character knows the sign is an evil omen.
If the check succeeds by 5 or more, the character can identify the sign's strength, and succeeding by 10 or more reveals all the ramifications of its effect (including the Elder Evil's presence and the identity of the Elder Evil).
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