Iontas is an incredibly ancient world, scholars predicting it to have existed for millions if not billions of years. The ancient history of this world is unknown to most except the most powerful and intelligent of scholars, and the gods themselves. Liber Intevum, the Book of Intevum, stored in the depths of an arcane library on the continent of Norrheim. Copies of this book are incredibly rare to come across. The following is a copy of Liber Intevum, along with my own notes of things I have discovered through various arcane means.
~ Archmage Eshunu
The Beginning of Time
Before time and space, and existence as we know it there was nothing but Voidharrow. An unfathomable endless mass of sentient void, something beyond our very comprehension. To truly glimpse into Voidharrow is to suffer the agonising sight of eternal unreality. It is unknown where Voidharrow came from, whether it had simply always been or whether before it there had been another universe that it consumed. It is unknown and most likely will always be unknown. However, a spark of light emerged from Voidharrow, becoming the first being to ever exist: an entity made of pure light. This entity sighed and its first breath spread throughout Voidharrow, pushing it away and in its place leaving the airless void of Wildspace. At the edges of Wildspace, where it met Voidharrow, existed the Far Realm. Life began to emerge in the depths of Wildspace, and within Wildspace formed bodies of life giving rise to the Astral Sea. Wildspace systems formed, along with them formed various planets and stars that gathered from the gas and rock that floated through Wildspace. Voidharrow dreamt and in its dreams came forth the Aboleths, the Beholders and the Mind Flayers: aberrant copies of life that formed within the Far Realm. And thus formed the Universe.
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