The Unmeasurable Age ???-???

Celestial / Cosmic

Multiverses, Galaxies, Universes, Solar systems all are vast and beyond the keen of most but for the purpose of this story we will start on the creation of Syanns Solar System and the entities refered to as the Elder Beasts and Custodian Dieties.

Long ago there was nothing, no time, no energy, no space (not realy even nothing as nothing would have required something to be compared to). Whence did it occur a great sundering of realities that tore holes and shook an empty cosmos (a bang of tremendous clout). The cause of this cosmic ruckus was the result of the banishment of malign entity refered to as the Great Darkness (If it has a true name it has yet to deem any being worth of knowing it) from a reality far beyond our knowing. That darkness was a hate consumed alien being to whom all existence was an affront. However that Darkness found this prison of nothing (as now it could be comapred to a something) to its liking and it spread forth creating the great empty void, a vast cosmos with no stars, worlds or matter. The peace of the nothingness would not last forever (though none can say how long it lasted at all given time did not yet exist). It would not be long or perhaps very long after that the proto-cosmos would shudder once more this time not from a banished being being shunted to some out of the way cosmic prison but to a family of beings escaping persecution? (None can say fer certain why the Elder Beasts came but early myths tend to agree they were fleeing something far worse, the concept of worse then a cosmic entity of unthinkable power is mildly worrying but let us continue our tale). Alien in understanding and motive they came seeking a cosmos to call their own. The nothingness recoiled in hate from the minds and forms that had invaded its peaceful prison almost imedately. The Darkness would attempt to expel them save that in creating the great void the unnameable darkness had spread its power thin (and the beings who entered were of substantial power themselves even for the nameless darkness if it was at its full power). Thus the unamebale darkkness did what it hated most to drive off the Invaders, it created. The darkness that can not be named roiled and churned and birthed terrible thoughts and urges that took on forms of wretchedness and madness beyond compare, nightmare beings born of a derranged alien pysche capable of birthing cosmic nightmares. Yet so hate filled were they that upon their birth they betrayed their creator and fled far and wide to dark and distant places to plot and scheme terrible things against their sibblings, creator and reality in general, the Unnameable Darkness was pleased in this for it had created them truly to do that very thing, to destroy all and eventually each other. Deciding its work done for a time and both weak and sickened from creation the emptiness entered a deep torpor until all things were purged, where only its nightmarish dreams can now be felt and its speaks maddened whispers that would bring god’s to their knees and drive mad any mortal unlucky enough to hear them. The Elder Beasts knew not (or at least cared not) of the Darkness nor it's spawn, they had come with their great mother beast Syann'nazzoth fleeing some terrible reality where cosmic beings can be persecuted and driven away. Syann'nazzoth the great mother of creation (and mother of the Elder Beasts) looked upon her offspring and knew their power was too great to maintain the subtle and sometimes delicate cosmic forces that would be required for creation and mainatnce of life, Thus out of her sixteen children five she would devour and re-birth anew as slaves whose duty was to maintain the fundamental essence of this new reality she was forging. Purged of much of their former alien being and reduced gravely in raw power (as much as a cosmic over god can said to have reduced power at any rate) the five took on form and definitions that would come to define this new reality as the custodian gods. Syann and her remaining young heaped hardship, abuse and pain upon the five forcing them to do the labors of crafting the cosmos while they planed to reap the benefits. The Elder beasts watched as the five set forth connections to planes and realms beyond, as they wove magic into the tapestry of this new cosmos reaching into countless unfolding realities spanning endless dimensions. Each great act of creation causing the void to shudder and nightmare births to erupt in the depths of the nothingness joining the terrible firstborn spawn, whom the five children battled at the command of their masters and sealed away behind the newly made stars. As time became true and the proto-cosmos became stable the five slaves of the beasts grew to see that the Elder Beasts had used them and made them suffer for their own amusement. So the five stole away to a hidden place they had created during the weaving of magic and they spoke. First the eldest the maker of time had words to say its sibblings. "They are unfair, they do not treat us as equals though our part in creating this domain has outweighed theirs"   Next the brother who had been charged with the keeping of all that should be known spoke   "We created and maintain the laws of this cosmos while they contribute nothing"   Next the sister who had wrought the elemental building blocks of creation added   "I do not wish to be their slave any longer, I yearn to be free!"   The last two other siblings one good and the other evil simply nodded for the forces they represented were not yet of great importance in the Cosmos. So emboldened, and embittered the slaves rose up and drew upon the very powers the Elder Beasts had granted them. In the end the slaves stood triumphant and though unable to kill the elder beasts they forced each of them into a deep slumber where they became the planets that now drift through the void. The most powerful beast their mother Syann'nazzoth the last to fall (though some say this had been her plan all along)   So the slaves, now the sole, custodians of the cosmos looked upon what lay before them. Though powerful they were yet children (in a cosmic ageless sense) and had little real understanding of what to do with what they were now masters of. So it would be that the five custodians of the cosmos would decide that each of them would explore and do as they wished for a time and then return to the body of their mother Syann where they would decide what was to be done. In this time the custodians named themselves, wrought domains in the planes beyond and learned to truly master the power that they had been given by their mother. So when next they met each stepped forward and spoke of who they were, the first to speak was one of the sisters, her hair a wild shifting elemental mass her eyes dancing with random colors "I am Mithila, I have tapped into the primal elemental powers and drawn their energies to this realm, I am chaos, I am unfettered, I am creation and destruction all dancing with mad beauty!"   The second a tall hairless man with sharp angled features spoke   "I am Arcadies, I have taken the wild energies and bursting patterns and given them stability, I have named and defined all we know that exists, I am order unwavering and I do not falter as the foe of entropy"   The next a man with bronzed skin and silver eyes spoke   "I am Trather I have seen the values of virtue, kindness and mercy, power must be used for the good of others and to protect them. Knowledge is a gift that should never be abused or used for selfish means"   After he spoke a pale woman with dark hair and obsidian eyes spoke in turn   "I am Sinda, I have seen the value of secrets, lies and cruelty, power is strength, strength is ambition. Survival demands this and cannot beachived by altruism alone"   Lastly the grey eyed custodian of time spoke   "I am Zith, I have remained while you explored and grew, I have maintained time and space and I have maintained the delicate balance that keeps the beasts in their slumber, and the nature of the cosmos intact. I am the keeper of the balance of all things"   It was during this cosmic meeting that something strange happened there upon Syann, the Five felt a stir of life, of something other then they and the sleeping Beast, Trathar was the first to look and see a small living thing upon the surface of Syanns sleeping body.   He then proclaimed "This that lives I shall protect for it is weak and frail" Sinda scowled and spoke "This that lives I shall make strong so that it may dominates those weaker and thrive" Aracadies spoke "This that lives I shall show law and order that it may endure entropy" Mithila laughed and whispered "This that lives I shall show freedom and chaos so that it may create and destroy with glee"   "No" Said Zith plainly to them   "This that lives, this that grows on our mothers body we shall watch and we shall foster from afar, we were slaves and we shall not make slaves of another, unless it is absolutely necessary" All the gods grudgingly agreed with Zith except Sindra who hissed out   "We must make it our slave, must dominate it before it rises against us!"   Zith gazed upon Sindra coldly as he spoke   "Yours is evil, and as I hear your words I would wonder if yours is required for the cosmos, we shall wait and watch this life as it grows and changes as I have said, and we shall decide soon if you and your influence is neccisary"   And so did the custodians became caretakers of the life that formed on the surface of their mother, not unlike the Beasts that spawned them they would become the elders and the creators and perhaps the beasts had intended this all along for Syann'nazzoth had given birth to life and created the perfect guardians for her new place and that may well be what she desired from the start.