Toward Earth & Beyond

​Eon XX – Age of Exile & Rebellion

“Newly born outsiders and proto-world denizens rebelled: infernal, celestial, and fey factions splintered—shaping a multiverse of conflict and uneasy truces.”

With the Elder Gods’ retreat into the Astral Veil, the cosmic balance shifted, leaving a vacuum of power and purpose. In this void, the first true “others”—demons, devils, angels, archons, modrons, azatas, and proto-Fey—stirred and sought dominion over the nascent multiverse. Their divergent natures led to schisms and conflicts, each faction carving out its own vision for reality and reshaping the cosmic order in their image.

The Great Fall

More than a single calamity, the Great Fall was the atemporal rupture that fractured unity itself—when perfect cosmic harmony splintered into discord and mortality. Across every plane, the once-harmonious hosts of outsiders turned upon one another, unleashing strife that would echo through all subsequent ages.

The Splintering of the Outsiders

• Celestials emerged to uphold order and the Elder Gods’ legacy, forging realms of light, law, and mercy.
• Infernals embraced ambition and chaos, building domains through ruthless conquest and infernal pacts.
• Fey embodied nature’s caprice, their courts dividing into Seelie and Unseelie factions of boon and bane.

Former allies became rivals, vying for influence over proto-worlds and plane-touched realms.

The Rebellion of Proto-World Denizens

Meanwhile, beings born on the countless experimental worlds of Eon XVIII asserted their own wills. Empowered by the still-warm Leylines, they rose against Outsider overlords, forging mortal civilizations, local pantheons, and diverse cultures across the Material Plane—far before Earth itself came to be.

The Shaping of the Multiverse

These epochal struggles cemented the great cosmic divisions and alignments we know today:

• Upper Planes of order and benevolence, under celestial stewardship
• Lower Planes of chaos and malice, ruled by infernal powers
• Feywild and Shadowfell, mirror realms of wild enchantment and creeping decay

Uneasy Truces and Lasting Legacies

Though war and betrayal defined this age, it also forged the enduring frameworks of law, chaos, and madness. Fleeting treaties were struck, realms were partitioned, and the first fragile alliances formed—establishing the moral and elemental alignments that continue to shape every corner of existence.

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Eon XXI – Formation of the First True Worlds

“As cosmic titans and primordial elementals found balance, stable planets emerged. Only then could the cradle of Earth take final form (≈ 4.5 Ga).”

As cosmic titans and primordial elementals found balance, stable planets emerged. Only then could the cradle of Earth take final form (≈ 4.5 Ga). Long after the titanic struggles and the weaving of ley-lines, the raw forces of creation at last grew still. Spun from the cooled ashes of dying stars and the tempered breath of elemental realms, great disks of stardust and gas began to settle into ordered orbits. Under the subtle guidance of the Primordial Titans, these swirling nurseries coalesced into solid spheres: the first true worlds, each an island of stability in the ever-turning void.

In these fledgling planets, the Primal Elementals—once chaotic avatars of fire, water, earth, and air—learned restraint. Their once-violent convulsions gave way to rhythmic cycles: molten cores simmered instead of erupted, vast oceans pooled instead of boiled, and winds rose and fell in gentle, life-sustaining breezes. It was this newfound harmony of the primal forces that hardened mountain ranges, carved river valleys, and painted cloud-scapes across the skies.

Among these earliest orbs, one world—destined to bear the name Earth—cooled with particular grace. Its molten crust fractured into drifting continents; its steam-thick air condensed into rain; its temperate seas cradled the first chemical stirrings of life. Aboleths existed here, in the molten primordial seas—before the Age of Elementals or any Emergence of life. Thus, Eon XXI drew to a close, ushering in an era where stable, sentient civilizations could at last take root upon firm ground.