Dawnera

In the beginning, there was nothing. No time, no space, only darkness; an endless and eternal void of nothingness. But this is only part of the truth. Because in this endless void, there was a single mote of light. A tiny piece of light and hope - the beginning of something great. The beginning of everything that exists today.
For an eternity, this mote of light was the only thing that existed, but eventually it grew tired and bored. So it gave itself up and gave birth to the elements, and three new lights in the dark. The elements formed the world as we know it, and the lights grew into the three siblings of the Sky. Yana - the Lady of Light, Tria - the Source of Magic, and Izral - the Force of Change.
To this day, the Sun reminds the Mortals of Yana's love, Trius the big moon in the sky reminds them of Tria's Magic, and Izrak, the red moon, reminds them of Izral's change.

— The beginning of Lothrea

The first age was the Age of Creation, the Era of Dawn. During that time the Siblings of the Sky - Yana, Tria and Izral watched over the newborn world. They watched as life formed, grew and prospered, and ultimately developed into the first sapient and sentient beings of this world.
They watched these first Mortals as they formed groups and tribes - as they came together to build settlements and towns, and developed the first cultures and people. These first Mortals did not know about the Siblings' existence, as they just observed and guided from the shadows.
Soon these Mortals turned their attention skywards. Are we alone? Are there others out there?, they wondered. And so the first religions formed an attempt to explain the things no mortal mind could ever comprehend.

You know, the faith of these Mortals is a curious thing. They believe in something that is not there, to explain things they can't comprehend. They create myths and stories, and at some point, they convince themselves that these fictional stories are real. This Imagination is a powerful ability - maybe even the most powerful ability in this universe - as when their faith grows strong enough, this faith ultimately leads to the creation of the very thing they believe in.

After the first cultures and religions formed, so formed the first divine beings. Created and fueled by the faith of the Mortals, these creatures set foot on Lothrea and bathed in the worship of their followers. Over centuries more and more Mortals, believed in more and more Divines and more and more of them appeared - and with every new one, every single one of them became weaker and weaker, the faith of the Mortals split between even more of them.

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Once the Divines realized what was going on, they knew that not all of them can survive. There is a limited number of followers out there, and therefor, there is a limited amount of power for every single one of them. And the more Divines there are, the less power there is for each of them.
And so these Gods fought for their followers. They showered the world in gifts, and showed themselves to the Mortals - all to gain more followers than the others, a desperate attempt to survive. But it all was for nothing. The Mortals did not unite behind a couple of them, but kept believing in the ones each of them created.

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To understand what happened next, you need to understand one crucial thing. Even if the Gods seem almighty and powerful, even if you think they are eternal and will be here forever, they can bleed - and everything that bleeds can die.

Desperate, and with no good options left, the Divines had to fall back to the only option remaining - getting rid of the others. So they rallied their followers, unleashed their magic and went to war with each other. They wreacked havoc across the world, killing countless Mortals and Divines alike. The War for Dawn was the first big war this world had seen so far, and it nearly destroyed everything.

When the world was at the brim of annihilation, the Siblings of the Sky could no longer sit idly by and watch everything getting destroyed. They grew attached to the world that had developed under their watch. Together they forced the other Divines to stop their fight, killing many of them in the procress, and unleashed magic greater than anything that existed so far.
And this magic shook the foundations of this world and ripped it apart. Today this event is known as The Sundering. It took the bright and beautiful, turned it to the extreme and ripped it away from the world, creating the Feywild that exists today. Simultaneously, this magic funneled the dark and foul away from this world and created the Shadowfell. And between these two planes, the world was left with no overly bright colors, but also no complete darkness - a place perfect for Mortals to thrive.

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