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HISTORY OF CORE PANTHEON
THE BEFORE ERA
There is the BEFORE.
And who knows what came before the BEFORE,
but after came the Titans. And then the gods.
So what was happening in the Before?
It seems a kind of crisis of scale. Big bangs all bang and collapsing at the same time.
And a lot of failure. A lot of pieces. A lot of false starts.
Gods without a rulebook. Punks. Pioneers. The Wild Wild West.
Might makes right.
Severe isolation/nothing.
Like a sandbox, everything was being created, but nothing stuck together after the rain,
a sort of melting unstable reality.
Titans and the Before gods lived in the few stable places, safe from these things.
A few sparse islands, caves, little holes and dents in the piles of
wrecked and amateur creation parts.
Kind of an ocean of impossibly fast moving events, beyond the realm of logic, but
not the forces of these before gods and their titans.
They could reach into the ocean like a lightning bolt and produce grand
but ultimately clumsy effects with wildly immense repercussions begetting into possibly forever.
If the Void is solid and placid and definite in its nothingness,
the Before's environment is more of an indefinite and constantly changing place with no clear lines and immense volatility.
It is in this time CHAOS emerged victorious, one the strongest gods of the Before.
But below the Chaos many things created voids of their own, locked away from everything else.
And so the many gates, the secrets, the knots, the things that held themselves together
with that thing that pulled them apart. This is where the Before gods could design
and pronounce.
The voids were not like the Void we know now.
They were the difference between a nuclear explosion and a lightning storm. A direction was enough order
in those days.
It was understood as a sort of true melody. An improvisation with no
end but to experiment and seek the limits of their power.
For every time that they reached an end, a creative roadblock, their frustrations beget
a law that they instantly despised.
These were the first Titans and they, for the most part, were treated as bastards
and as soon as they were born, they were sealed in their own spaces,away from the important work of these
artists of power. If there were limits to this, they thought them best discarded until
some solution was found for those limits.
And so many titans waited in a no place behind gate after seal after clever lock.
(somewhat a reference to the many different ceremonial and religious arches and gates (ie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torii)
, as well as the tradition of luck locks by the hundreds at popular sites
- https://whereveriwant.com/travel/mount-tai-taishan/)
The Before gods would twist another knot on these gates all the time, as habit took hold
often after a good meal or a special event. And so it went for some time.
Then ? happened.
Then there were only the Titans.
Some who had never known the Before at all.
But many still knew, and some especially knew too much.
The keeper of the Old Gate.
The servants to the last rulers.
But where the Chaos had gone or how those of Before had fallen or gone away,
none of them would say much about it.
It was there, in the Void, that they wished to forge their own new paths,
and so the Before was left to fade from memory, for those who had the benefit of forgetting.
It was they who created the Void to make their own designs, free from the defects and pain of Before.
And it was that seperation that birthed the first wild magics, eeking forever from the titans, the gates,
and the very materia that held together the Void, for beyond it was still what they knew.
THE BEFORE ERA
There is the BEFORE.
And who knows what came before the BEFORE,
but after came the Titans. And then the gods.
So what was happening in the Before?
It seems a kind of crisis of scale. Big bangs all bang and collapsing at the same time.
And a lot of failure. A lot of pieces. A lot of false starts.
Gods without a rulebook. Punks. Pioneers. The Wild Wild West.
Might makes right.
Severe isolation/nothing.
Like a sandbox, everything was being created, but nothing stuck together after the rain,
a sort of melting unstable reality.
Titans and the Before gods lived in the few stable places, safe from these things.
A few sparse islands, caves, little holes and dents in the piles of
wrecked and amateur creation parts.
Kind of an ocean of impossibly fast moving events, beyond the realm of logic, but
not the forces of these before gods and their titans.
They could reach into the ocean like a lightning bolt and produce grand
but ultimately clumsy effects with wildly immense repercussions begetting into possibly forever.
If the Void is solid and placid and definite in its nothingness,
the Before's environment is more of an indefinite and constantly changing place with no clear lines and immense volatility.
It is in this time CHAOS emerged victorious, one the strongest gods of the Before.
But below the Chaos many things created voids of their own, locked away from everything else.
And so the many gates, the secrets, the knots, the things that held themselves together
with that thing that pulled them apart. This is where the Before gods could design
and pronounce.
The voids were not like the Void we know now.
They were the difference between a nuclear explosion and a lightning storm. A direction was enough order
in those days.
It was understood as a sort of true melody. An improvisation with no
end but to experiment and seek the limits of their power.
For every time that they reached an end, a creative roadblock, their frustrations beget
a law that they instantly despised.
These were the first Titans and they, for the most part, were treated as bastards
and as soon as they were born, they were sealed in their own spaces,away from the important work of these
artists of power. If there were limits to this, they thought them best discarded until
some solution was found for those limits.
And so many titans waited in a no place behind gate after seal after clever lock.
, as well as the tradition of luck locks by the hundreds at popular sites
- https://whereveriwant.com/travel/mount-tai-taishan/)
often after a good meal or a special event. And so it went for some time.
Then ? happened.
Then there were only the Titans.
Some who had never known the Before at all.
But many still knew, and some especially knew too much.
The keeper of the Old Gate.
The servants to the last rulers.
But where the Chaos had gone or how those of Before had fallen or gone away,
none of them would say much about it.
It was there, in the Void, that they wished to forge their own new paths,
and so the Before was left to fade from memory, for those who had the benefit of forgetting.
It was they who created the Void to make their own designs, free from the defects and pain of Before.
And it was that seperation that birthed the first wild magics, eeking forever from the titans, the gates,
and the very materia that held together the Void, for beyond it was still what they knew.