The Old Gods

The Old Gods are a strange kind of 'divine', they are not primordial beings of creation like Bahamut The Platinum Dragon, Tiamat The First Hydra and Kaltorius The Painite Dragon, but they are not Gods in the general understanding like the Gods of Rularia's Ascendant or Gods like Ilmater - God of Endurance, Helm - God of Protection or Umberlee - Goddess of the Sea. They are manifestations of mortality, of life and experience itself and as such they cannot be removed or forgotten about like other Gods, they are as intrinsic to mortal life as breathing or eating. All the Old Gods are bound to Hell, or have been 'killed'; though killed is a misnomer, more their physical manifestation on the world have been destroyed completely, though they still exist in the being of mortality.

Though some of the Old Gods were manifestations of traits we might consider positive, good or aspirational their intensity and presence is what causes them to be an issue; too much of a good thing can be poisonous.

The greatest of the Old Gods, and those who were first bound to Hells layers are the Principle Eight:

• Lust
• Envy
• Greed
• Pride
• Sloth
• Wrath
• Gluttony
• Treachery

Beyond the Eight are the lesser Old Gods, though that thinking can lead to grossly underestimating their strength and own power. They are:

• Pestilence
• Disease (The first Old God killed in the War)
• Bravery
• Fear (Killed)
• Strength
• Hatred (Believed Killed, survived by its own hatred towards one specific Dragon Family - Now bound in a pocket dimension)
• Chaos
• Love
• Truth
• Ambition
• Weakness
• Faith
• Allure
• Rage
• Care
• Protection
• Creativity
• Joy

There is one Old God separated from the rest, Death. Unlike the other Old Gods, Death could be described as an other; a unique case, unlike the other Old Gods, Death is the finality, the end of mortality, and more than any other Old God is needed to give life meaning. At the end of the war The Five Lords and Death came to a treaty, it would not be bound nor killed like the rest of its ilk, Death is too important for balancing the natural world, yet Death agreed to take a retreat, only coming to the plane at the natural, or inflicted, moments a thing ends. As such Death is the only Old God now classed as a Primordial.