History of the Gyrlands

The Primary Four discover they are not alone in the universe. Seeking each other out, they find they can combine their powers of creation in new and interesting ways.

The gods create celestial beings known collectively as "Angels" to help them with their work. The most powerful of these are known as Paragons, Solars, and Devas. For the most part, they serve their patron gods faithfully, even though some of them have power that rivals the gods themselves.

The second generation of gods are born. Slauthé creates the sun and moon and then gives them personalities. These become the twin goddesses, Luna and Sola. Drothé and Mágosa have a son together, Pandolfus, and give him domain over the ever expanding wilderness and forests that are created wherever earth and water comingle.   As Frácos expands his power, he discovers that the luminance of his fires are equaled only by the shadow created by his smoke. Within the dark, choking cinder-cloud left in his wake, is born Vamaré, the goddess of Shadow and Death.

Frácos forms the Nine Hells and Vamaré forms Limbo using shards of the Negative Energy Plane. Sometime later, Lomus, Sl'grast, and Crosk conspired to steal some of these shards and used them to create the Abyss, which they populated with their followers, corrupted fey and celestials which transformed into demons.

A significant number of angels settle on the World to help cultivate it for their chosen patron gods and goddesses. These celestials are bound to the World in a magical ceremony and transform into a new type of being called "Archfey". They become the rulers of this land, many of them forming "Courts" that function as fiefdoms and hierarchies, hoping to impose some semblance of order in a world of primordial chaos.

The Primary Four each agree to populate the "World" with four races of mortal beings created in each of their images.   Slauthé creates eladrin, the first elves.   Drothé creates Fomorian giants, who have a penchant for mining and crafting beautiful gems, and the Fir Blog, who cover the mountains in rich and fertile soils, and plant it with seeds from their leather bags.   Frácos creates the gem dragons, who are a new beautiful species with crystalline scales.   Mágosa creates brooga, tritons, and merfolk, who live in a vast sea that covers nearly one-half of the World's surface.

Using the power of the celestial sword Wyrmrazor, Frácos splits the most ancient of each type of his beloved gem dragons into ten new types of dragons. These dragons, five of which are chromatic in nature and five of which are metallic, are each imbued with a part of Frácos' personality, and they are akin to a god in and of themselves. In order to procreate, each of the ten are instructed to use Wyrmrazor to shave off scales from their bodies, as each scale would grow into a mortal dragon. The ten god-dragons are instructed to create as many mortal dragons in this way as possible, which helps tip the scales of the war.

After a long period of mourning, Mágosa creates a new World on the Prime Material Plane. It is covered by one large ocean, called the Amaranthine, with no continents, or land of any kind, above sea level. She creates life but restricts herself to non-intelligent sea creatures. She imbues this World with her magic, but imposes a more rigid system to keep its wild forces in check. The other gods look on with interest.   As it is no longer the only "world" in the universe anymore, the combined Fey Realm/Shadow Realm becomes known as the Aetherworld. The newly created world becomes known as the Material World, and in time becomes known as the Prime Material World or "Aetregyr".

Necrostylus, an archfey, formerly in the service of Vamaré, betrays his mistress, and ascends to Godhood by learning how to cheat death. He fashions himself the God of Undeath and amasses an army of undead powerful enough that the other gods decide not to challenge him, but instead banish him to the Negative Energy Plane. Frácos and Vamaré make a pact to follow him there, to ensure his power is kept in check.

No one knows exactly what primal force initially tore a rift into the vast empty seas of the world. But it is believed that this initial outburst of matter caused millions of miles of land to form in a split second, swirling out from the point of origin. This epicenter became known as the Worldaxle or "Spiraculum", and the landmasses that it created became the Gyrlands.

When suddenly land erupts across the face of the material world, war erupts as well. Unwilling to let her ocean paradise fall in the same way she lost her kingdom back on the Aetherworld, Mágosa fights back. She urges her followers, the Tritons to leave the sea, forgoing their gills and water-adaptations in order to fight on land. Those who obey her commands become the first humans.   War rages between the armies of Necrostylus and Mágosa and their allies. In the end, Necrostylus is defeated, and his hold on the Prime is nullified. However, many of the armies who fought on his behalf, giants, goblins, orcs, gnolls, kobolds, and more, are allowed to remain.   Many deities aided Mágosa or Necrostylus during the Bone War, and for better or worse, their followers now reside in plentiful numbers upon this new Prime World. The fey continue on, mostly unchanged, under the rulership of the Archfey. But the deities quickly find themselves drawn to Aetregyr, to oversee the cultivation of their acolytes.