History of our Setting "Exalted"

Setting = Hi-fantasy

The First history of reality.

Thousands of years ago Primordials walked the chaotic primordial energies of the Universe. Some of these Primordials decided to take the untamed energy that is chaos, and forge Reality. The youngest of the primordials agreed to use herself as a basis for this new world, this primordial was Gaia. Gaia's body was the land, and the elements of creation; fire, water, wind, earth, and wood. The Primordials were happy with their new creation, but as pridected, the wild forces of chaos (nicknamed simply "The Wyld"), would pick at the edges of reality and try to unravle the tapastry of fate.

Gaia and the other primordials wanted sentient creatures to thrive new world. With other sentient creatures, they could direct them to fight off the wyld, and continue to do as they pleased. The Primordials turned to the great crafter "Autocuthlon". They asked him to create beings of power to help solidify reality. Autocuthlon in-turn created the Gods, and the Dragon-Kings (what modern humans might mistake their bones for a dinosaur).

For ceunteries stayed on Gods stayed on earth as the primordials were in Heaven, playing their games of divinity. For those that don't know, the Games of Divinity aren't games where Gods use mortals against each other, but a spiritual games much like chess. Unlike chess, for a mortal to watch a maneuver of the Games of Divinity, puts him/her into a state of extascy unmatch by any drug, and leaves the mortal hopelessly addicted to watching the games. The Gods became jeleous of the Primordials, but due to their nature they were unable to raise their hands against the primodials themselves.

The Gods knew their was only two Primordials who didn't see them as objects. Gaia, who took on Luna (the moon goddess/god) as a lover, and Autocutholon, who saw them more as children of his than creations. Autocutholon taught the most powerful gods how to make Exalted. Long lived mortals who share the power of the gods.

The Unconquored Sun created the Solors. King and Queen's to rule the realm and all of creation. The Solor had access to some of the most powerful magic to help them rule. Luna, the moon goddess, created Lunars. Werebeast who can change between human, and beasts of great strength. The Lunars became the spouses of the Solars. They were their generals and greatest fighters. The 5 Madiens of fate created the Siderial. They had the unique ability to pridect the tapasty of fate, and had legal right in heaven to change fate as they saw fit. The Sideral became the advisors to the Solars. The only Exalted to be created by a primordial were the dragon-blooded, created by Gaia. The Dragon-Blooded were the foot soilders to the Solars. They were the weaker of the four, but what made them soo beneficial was that their power transfered through the blood rather than the soul. All other exalted would only come into power if another exalted died, and their power transfer to the new vessle, limiting the number of exalted in creation. However the dragon-blooded's power could be breed into their children, allowing ten's of thousands of dragon-blooded to walk the earth rather than mere hundreds.

In their arrogence, the other primordials turned a blind eye to the gods. They were content to play their games of divinity believing the gods can do nothing to change the way things were. The Primordials were taken by suprise, and the Exalted laid seige to heaven and won. Some of the Primordials were slain, others were imprisoned.

Not all went as planned. The complexity of beings such as the primordials were not understood even by the gods. The primordials were never born, therefore they can never die. The energy of the primoridals who were slain, fell from heaven onto creation. Like water being abored by a sponge, so to were the energies aborbed by creation. These energies sliped passed creation and created the underworld. Before this point, all energy and spirits were reincarnated back into reality. Now, some spirits would remain behind, tied emotionally to the world.

Those primordials who were not killed agreed to be imprisoned instead. The gods new enough spirital lore to do such a task, but before doing so, they had to striped the primordials of their many forms. Primordial are too complex to fit into one form, so each primordial usually had hundreds of bodies and shapes they could put their energy into. The gods killed each of the bodies leaving only one body for each primordial. This act in itself bent the prinicples of magic. The energies of the primordials were too much for one form/body, and because of this the primordial bodies turned inside out on themselves, leaving them in agonizing torture for all eternity. The gods threw them into an empty realm, and named this realm after the fallen King of the Primordials; Malfeas.

The solars ruled creation through justice for hundreds of years. This time was known as the Golden Age. It was not meant to last. Before the Malfeans were thrown into their prison, they cursed all of the exalted in secret. This curse took the heroic qualties of the Solars and twisted them. Valor turned into cowardice, compassion turned into apathy, conviction turned into ambivilence, Temperence turned in sadisim. The Solars became monsters instead of heroes.