It began, long ago in the depths of time, before the creation of the gods of Darjis.
Zerinias, the consciousness of the Cosmos, made for himself a beautiful realm, A realm of many layers, but he had not yet filled them.
He held in his hands, a tiny seed, and this seed was the source of all life, matter, energy, and the aer.
Zerinias commanded the seed to sprout, and all the matter of the universes exploded, seeping into all the layers of what was once empty cosmos.
He ordered this universe, wrapping himself with it, clad in the stars, and wading through the nebulae.
It was then, in his aimless wandering of ordering the chaos...that he began to coalesce great spiritual energies, and into these energies he breathed life.
And these energies, became beings of great power, and were named in the common tongue, the titans...Though the Elves called them Aeons.
And so Zerinias gave these Aeons power, and sent them on a mission to order the heavens, and order the worlds, and to carve them in his name.
"Go, I command thee, in my name, make all the realms paradise."
But soon, the Aeons grew restless with their task. They sought control over the creation they ordered...not the stewardship of it.
And so a number of these titans rebelled. An entire third of the Aeonic legions. And they made war upon Zerinias, and the Aeons who remained loyal. And they battled for eons, before Zerinias, and his Aeons broke the charge, and threw them to the worlds below.
And so it was, that the Aeons who fell, gathered, and made for themselves pits in the lowest regions, and these pits became the burning underworlds, that all souls who would not be taken up by the gods, or the Aeons of Zerinias, the souls of evil, would fall into these pits, and would forever be enslaved by the controlling will of the now fallen Titans.
It is said, that there was one Titan, who was the cause of all this...but his name is a mystery...and Etheriel does not tell us his true name, lest we destroy ourselves in our terror.
Eons after the fall of the Titans, who had now become demons, twisted by their own malice and hatred...
Zerinias with his Aeons sought to create new life, new life that was bound to him, and would not falter.
And so he took parts of himself...his own empyrean flesh, and he formed the gods. And he gave them powers over nature.
And it was, that Zerinias faded and his Aeons took the core of his spirit, and fled into the highest reaches.
It was then, that Zerinias, with the aid of his Aeons, was reborn, and wrapped in a body of light...he was Etheriel.
And he saw the creation of his children. and he saw a great war upon a tiny speck of rock...and so he said to the Aeons.
"Behold...there is war amongst these creatures...seperated from each other by my children. I shall send down a gift into their midst, and whom so ever can claim the prize, shall be my children."
And so our history, began...
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But it was not just the Aeons who were toiling in the universe. The Demons were toiling as well. And so they gathered, and from the burning blood of every demon, the wisest and most cunning of the sages, writ a book. And in this book, was held all the powers of the Hells, and they sealed these powers into the book, and to those who would break the seals, unlimited power of death and horror, would be at their fingertips.
And so it was, that when Etheriel sent down the Elen-Astralis, that the demons of Hell, secretly placed the tome, within an ancient and forgotten library....
And in this tome, was written the darkest of powers, and only the darkest of hearts could break the seal.
And it was Tanath, who was the first to break the seal...
And it was Tanath, that when he attempted to release the Demon of the gem, that was he himself sealed within.
And it was Tanath that drove Peregrinus, Arrillion, Bel-Zammon, and so many others, to the most depraved of insanity.
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For information on Tanath, see other pages, of the Lore of Darjis.