Primordial Gods

In the beginning there was only darkness. Ancient, hate filled primordial elder gods ruled uncontested over a vast, formless, chaotic existence with out time. But it was the concept of evil and chaos itself that caused the universe to birth its polar opposite into reality. Light filled the universe and pushed back against the darkness, a second pantheon of gods was born. The first great war between good and evil had begun.

But the primordial gods could not be destroyed by the new coming of light, to gain victory over the dark chaos the younger gods created the four elemental planes, and the twin material planes out of the formless ethereal void. From nothingness the gods had created the material planes of Midgard, (now known by its mortal inhabitants as Earth), and the magically rich twin plane of Crossworld. The gods then created the dragons out of energy from the elemental planes and filled the material planes with mortal beings. Worship converted from these mortal beings gave the gods the divine energy needed to defeat the primordial beings and after eons of battle the the First Great Divine War had ended.

However not all of the Primordial Elder Gods were defeated. Some now sleep in the deep, cold, empty space created far from the planet seeded with life in the creation of the material planes. Some remain trapped in the chaotic cracks between realities, unable to enter the material planes, however through their dreams they now covertly influence the universe, infecting it with their very existence. Their minions, the many demons species created to battle the second pantheon during the first divine wars still reside in their masters previous home the abyssal planes.

The current ruling gods of Crossworld created their mortal children to worship them. This worship gives the gods their energy, their power. However their creation could be their undoing. There are prophecies of cltists and of books that have with in them rites that will one day wake these primordial gods and to bring them into both the Celestial and Material planes. One thing all the gods know is that the universe will always seek to come a full circle.