How the Races were born

The gods are a race. A race made of ideas. Ideas so powerful that they can effect the fabrics that fate and reality are weaved into.

Summary

The beginning of time doesn't seemed concerned with the creation of the first gods. The gods who survived through the faith of the mortals through to the Contemporary Magicia Era don't seem too keen on speaking on their birth to the mortals either. They came to exist some how and from them the planes of the fiends, the celestial, the vowed, and the adaptable. The first ideas of the lines being drawn between the cosmic law and chaos, of good and evil. The fighting within those circles. Some say the first creatures were made as practice, some say unintentional failures. Not the original behemoths that fought on behalf of the pantheons. Not the sapient life that fought the battle through actions of morality. The twisted underlings of the fiends, the winged horrors of the celestials, the carapace and claw of the chaotic, and the grinding and mashing of the clockwork that came from the law vowed. Creatures that keep children from growing into adventurers. Creatures that keep fae in the sky and wood. That keep mages on the material. Creatures that survived. The spawn of the gods became more sophisticated over iterations. Eventually, they realized that their power came from ideas. From the concepts of morality and the minds of their spawn. They made smarter and more refined beings. Imps and angels. Modron and slad. They weren't making the gods any more powerful, however. They kept the ideals of their gods in balance. For power to change, they needed creatures that could change. So each of powers, over which the morals of the universe had made, worked as one for a single spell for the only time. They made themselves finite, tired to the acts of the mortal. Thus the first humanoids came to be.

Variations & Mutation

Every culture has some version of this story. Some elves claim the fae were of their own pantheon marking the defined neutral. Many fiends will trade versions of this story to mortals for favors and pacts. However, no one is foolhardy enough to claim to know the origins of the original deific powers.

In Literature

It's a touchstone of cultural mythos. It's never fleshed out and is talked about in known reference by poets and authors.