Elder Evils

Long before the gods of Zelrinda came to be, before Adoa, The Overgodcreated The High Gods and Luminosa's first light split the void and illuminated the world, there existed the Old Ones—a group of entities from beyond the stars, incomprehensible in their forms and motives. Aside from a small number of scholars, few individuals in the multiverse are even aware of the Elder Evils, who are generally separated from mortal reality, perhaps confined by wandering stars or stranded in the vastness of outer space. That said, one Elder Evil, The Netherbrain, is usually classified as an Illithid God, has been loosed upon Zelrinda twice, and warlocks employ eldritch powers named after another Elder Evil, Hadar the Dark Hunger being the most common. Those who know the most lore about the Elder Evils hold that these entities are utterly alien: not gods, fiends, or primordials. They are thoroughly evil, and no deal with any of them ends any way but terribly.   “The cultists who blaspheme reality by calling out to Elder Evils often speak of a Far Realm from which these entities hail. In truth, there is no one place or space from which they come. There is the multiverse of things that are, and there is the multiverse of things that shouldn't be. —Mordenkainen