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The Epoch of Magic (presumably including all of known history prior to 576 CY but definitely ending some time before 998 CY). Neither the deities nor the remaining primordial evils want this to happen any time soon, since both benefit from the continuing growth of the human race. Servants of mad cults work to hurry this along. The Wind Dukes never recovered their losses.ĭoomsayers speak of the end times, an era of destruction known as the Age of Worms. The demons and devils continue to fight each other in what has become termed the Blood War, although few are ancient enough to remember why it started. In the millennia after the Battle of Pesh, humans and the other races created civilization and have learned the use of magic. With the primordials weakened and the gods reinforced by exponentially increasing numbers of mortal worshippers, the era of humanoids and their chosen deities began. The result was a stalemate: the Wind Dukes destroyed or banished the most powerful demons, but lost too many of their number to continue the battle of law against chaos. On the side of Law were the Wind Dukes of Aaqa, an air elemental race whose empire spanned many worlds, while Chaos included demons and evil elder elementals led by an obyrith called the Queen of Chaos. The Age before Ages concluded at the Battle of Pesh, a colossal battle between law and chaos. The Demons grew numerous, and overthrew most of the obyriths before turning against Asmodeus’ devils, whose numbers included deities’ servants turned traitor for the promise of power. The mortals were also valuable to the primordial creatures for their souls, which the baernaloths used to build into the evil yugoloths, and the obyriths to create the first demons, the first demon, Demogorgon, was forged from the primal fears of the first mortal souls. In exchange, they freed the humanoids from aboleth control. Precisely who created what race is unclear, but the gods found that mortal faith increased their power. Over millions of years the aboleths came to dominate the material plane, learning the first magic and creating creatures – the oozes, at first, and later the first humanoids, which they created as slaves.
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As they have perfect genetic memory, all aboleths remember this event. The first mortal was created by accident when Piscaethces, a massive Far Realm creature perhaps related to the Sleeping Ones, brushed against the prime material plane, creating the first monstrous aquatic aboleth. This is the current era, and is predicted to end one day with the Age of Worms, where all life will be destroyed. In the following Age, humans and other species became numerous and human civilization began. The Age before Ages, constituting the early history of the multiverse, when the forces of Law battled primal Chaos. These three eras together are called the Age before Ages. This Age culminated in a massive battle between Law and Chaos, crippling the ancient powers. In the third Age, the aquatic aboleth race was created by divine accident, the aboleth went on to master magic and create many creatures including the first humanoids. In the second Age, the Material Plane was formed and the first gods came into being. In the first Age, the multiverse came into being and beings of law and chaos, good and evil warred for millions of years.
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The following terms are sometimes used to describe eras in the history of eastern Oerik: