Paradur

This is not the first world. There have been worlds before. Some died. Some were abandoned. Some may yet exist. Throughout the worlds and the ages there are, and have been, many divine spirits both greater and lesser. Of those many spirits, ten gods founded this world. Two families of five who had long worked together, creating four worlds and this, their final world. Five of the ten created the dragons. The other five created the Titans, who would become the Giants of the modern day. Five and Five gods, and the Fifth of Five Worlds. It is for this reason that five is a sacred number for both the giants and the dragons, and it is for this reason that their nature is split five ways. From these ten gods also came the five disciplines of Old Magic, the magic of the Titans and the Dragons. For many years, the titans and the dragons shared the world harmoniously. But the old gods, the Draconic and Titanish gods, had grown old and tired, weary of sovereignty and creation. This was the world they created, and the Titans and Dragons were their creations within it, but they did not intent for this world to be theirs. Instead, they planned to retire into the depths of the divine realms that no mortal living nor dead has ever seen, there to sleep, to rest, and to grow young again. The Old gods created successors for themselves, a new pantheon to rule their new world. The Old gods created eight successors, and the birth of each gave rise to one of the eight fonts of mortal magic. These fonts spread and intermingled, forming the Ley-Lines that fuel the magic of the world. The Old gods gave this world to the Young gods and bid them create their own creations to fill it. They then tasked their creations, the dragons and titans, with safeguarding and teaching the fledgling races of the Young gods until they were capable of being masters of their own fate. The Old gods left the world, and for the better part of an age the world advanced as they had planned. But the Young gods bristled at having their creations under the wardenship and tutelage of their progenitor’s creations and schemed against the Titans and the Dragons. This conflict between deity and mortal never came to pass. Knowing that the Guardian races were too powerful, and the young gods were still growing into theirs, the gods instead set the two races against each other in a conflict that all but destroyed both. In the wreckage of their once powerful kingdoms, the mortal races slowly came into their own, influenced by the Guardian races, yet fully separate from them.
Ages past, and an ancient enemy of the Titanic and Draconic gods, a being known only as the Corrupter, both less and more than a deity, found Paradur. Seeing an opportunity to undo the last work of it's ancient enemies, the Corrupter infiltrated the world, corrupting it's people and three of the young gods, leading them in a war to destroy the world. In the end, the Corrupter was destroyed, but the Corrupter's War decimated the empires and kingdoms of the world, leaving the survivors scattered, broken, and isolated in a now much more dangerous world....