Age of Creation
The prime gods brought forth Olquen (ol-KEN) as a world on which they might research and debate the one truth that eluded these divine beings, the origins of their own existence. Theological scholars have come to call this holy pursuit ‘The Inquest’.
While the exact year of creation is lost in the mists of time, it is generally accepted that the creation of Olquen and its lands occurred approximately 10,000 years prior to The Sundering. The gods created the continent of Ankaluun (awn-kuh-loon) (for seeking in the language of the Ancients) specifically as the location for their Conclave to pursue their quest. They spent several thousand years searching, researching and debating, but the answers they sought remained elusive. Oftentimes, one or more of their number would travel to other realms and even other planes of existence for decades or even a centuries at a time as they combed the multiverse for clues to their origins.
The preponderance of archaeological scholars believe that the prime gods created their first worshippers in 3490AC. It is said that the god, Kirin, was the first to suggest that they bring forth peoples for each of them to care for and nourish. She suggested that by creating other beings it might inspire them as to their own origins. The twin-gods, Jos'Nala and Jos'Dar, each zealously agreed as they believed that worshippers would give them great power which would assist in the Inquest. Haluun, Calaq, and Rundala, were less enthused with the suggestion as they believed that their focus should not be split. Nevertheless, they reluctantly went along as they trusted Kirin and generally followed her lead.
Each god created peoples of their own, save for the twins. Jos'Nala and Jos'Dar chose to create a single people who might worship the two of them in tandem, believing this would greatly increase their power.
The followers of Kirin chose to create a grand city, to the south of the Conclave so that they might be close to their god. They invited the people of each of the other gods to come and dwell with them in the city they had named Kirinia (later Mendhalia). It became a city of great learning, containing temples dedicated to the worship of each of the gods.
Legends say that, in time, the twins came to care far more for the worshiping adulation of their adherents than The Inquest itself. Answering the seemingly unanswerable became far less interesting than the power granted to them from their throngs of followers. They began to spend less and less time in The Conclave and more time in the western portions of Kirinia, where the vast majority of those who worshipped them lived.
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