The Shaping of the Multiverse
After the Void had been contained, the Zeniths had to decide what to do with the Multiverse that they now ruled over. It was an empty place, devoid of any rock or river. Chaos could not abide this. And thus, it created the great cosmic soup that is space. It created all of the earth and air and fire and water.
Immediately, Law had a problem. There was no order, no reason to the matter that Chaos created. Anything and everything could be anywhere. Matter could have multiple forms and exist in opposed dimensions. Law had to act, and so it did. It created gravity. It created all of the ways that the elements can combine with each other.
Until this point in time, Good and Evil had been fighting incessantly. With the creation of matter though, Good and Evil both understood the consequences of this new world being created was. A new battlefield. It was Good who started the Arms Race. It saw the potential for interaction between the elements, and from that, created life. Into this life, Good gave the ability to feel. The ability to have emotions. The ability to think. Good also created with this the first Elder, Life, to watch and guard it’s new creation. But what happened to life over time?
This was the question that Evil asked itself. What does happen to life over time? Can it end? After all, earth can become water and water can become air. With these words, Evil created the Elder, Death, and upon Death Evil conveyed but one command: end life. Thus began the great race. The marathon to see if Death will overcome Life.
Life, as it turns out, is a malleable thing. There was no order or disorder in it, at least not at first. No, Law could not abide by that. Law instilled in animals basic needs and desire. The need to eat and to sleep. The need for water and for heat. For each of these needs, for each of these subdivisions of reality, Law created an Elder Dragon and a Dragonflight to watch over it. Now, it is important to know that these Dragons are not like the Dragons of Earth. No, these Dragons have many different forms. When you see the word Dragon, think not of a winged, fiery reptile, but rather, think of a being of immense power that has access to some of the strongest magics of the Multiverse.
And so it continued, with Chaos and Life and Good and Evil constantly created new things. New ways to interact with each other. New battlegrounds. With the Dragonflights, new soldiers for their armies.
Unintentionally over the course of eons, there was created The Great Planes. Each of these Planes was an embodiment of one or more of the Zeniths. They are as follows.
The Four Elemental Planes: the Plane of Water, the Plane of Earth, the Plane of Air, and the Plane of Fire.
The Plane of Good is known simply as Wun, named as such for the Elder Dragon of Good, Wun. The beings that inhabit it are known only as The Radiant, called such because of how brightly they radiate Goodness into the Multiverse.
The Plane of Evil is called Ezal, for Ezal, the Elder Dragon of Evil. The creates who call this place home are known as The Seething Ones, for the palpable evil that sheds off of them into the Multiverse.
The Plane of Law is Akris. Here is where the Judges live, measuring and enforcing their dominance over any interaction they can observe.
The Plane of Chaos is known only as the Great Reaction, and those who live there are the Changelings.
The Plane of Balance, known today as Graedjo, for the Elder Dragon that comprises the world, who sleeps around a sphere of magma. This plane was created by Balance as a place where everything could coexist and thus unintentionally, the place where the greatest fighting would occur.
Hel is the Great Plane that exists at the convergence of the power of Law and Evil. It is an infernal hierarchy that has nine distinct levels, where the deeper that one goes, the more evil and powerful they become. The residents of Hel are known as Devils.
The Maw is the Great Plane created by Chaos and Evil. A fiendish pit, full of the most wicked things, known as Demons, that fight amongst each other for all of time, establishing short-lived hierarchy through shear strength and dumb luck.
The Heavens rest upon the convergence of Law and Good. Here, the Angels rule over and care for the Multiverse with the best of intentions.
The Meadows are the Great Plane where Good and Chaos come together. Resembling an infinitely interlocking series of idyllic meadows, The Meadows sees its inhabitants coexisting peacefully with one another without any rule imposed onto any of them. The inhabitants of this realm are known as the High Fey.
Lastly, there is the Shadowlands. A realm where the dead go. Where those souls who do not go to another plane after their time in Graedjo go. The Shadows live here, ruled over by the Face in the Dark.
