The Dead Gods

It is said that the Beings we call the Dead Gods, were not Gods at all, but were just Beings of energy. They evolved through the chance convergence of Grim and Radiant energy, two different forces. Each random melding of Grim and Radiant energy created a new consciousness. After a time, each consciousness grew self aware. This continued over eons until all the large pools of energy were used. These new Beings eventually discovered each other. Their nature was made of energy, and they existed in what we now call the spirit world. By human standards they were extremely powerful, but they were not Gods. For by definition Gods cannot die, and yet these Beings eventually perished, torn asunder by the results of their own pride.

The Creation of the World

In time these Beings discovered how to harness the very powers that created them, Grim and Radiant energy. They decided that they were great and all powerful. So they set out to create something new by design unlike the chance of their creation. After eons of planning, and imagination, they created the first physical place in existence. They called it the World. It was their finest work of art. To make it work they started by designing a great crystal. Into the Crystal of Creation they poured all of their plans, their order of the new universe, the very rules that made this physical place exist! and much of themselves. They wanted this to be the most wonderful creation of all time, so they poured their own nature of Grim and Radiant energy into all they created. And before they were ruined, they touched greatness for a moment as they sparked new kinds of life, animal and plant. But this wasn’t enough for them, so they pushed more of their own Radiant and Grim power from within to create a physical reflection of themselves! a kind of melding of animal and their own consciousness, a new kind of life that they called Humans (The Worlds 1st Race). And when they were through, they were much reduced, for this had taken a lot of their very beings to create.

The Forming of Elixir and Chaos

The Beings decided to give their creatures a gift, and so they discovered how to convert Radiant energy into a physical substance they dubbed Elixir, a power the physical humans could use to build, heal, create and much more. But to separate and create Elixir, Grim energy was released, and in the World they had created this Grim energy, became a new and free roaming physical substance..Chaos. They converted too much of their Radiant energy into Elixir and poured it into their World, and all the while they were also creating vast amounts of Chaos. They considered the Chaos harmless and thought that it would dissipate. They didn’t realize this physical manifestation of Grim energy was a new power. At first much of the Chaos seeped into the depths of the earth and there in the dark it pooled.

Three of the Beings became aware of this pool of Chaos. Their names are now shrouded in myth and gloom. But while still untainted, these three wondered what they might create with this pure pool of Chaos. They thought to surprise their fellow Beings with a wondrous new creation. They delved into this pool of Chaos and pulled much of it within themselves, converting it back into Grim energy. This unbalanced the Grim and Radiant power within these three Beings, far beyond anything any of the Beings had ever experienced. They did not see this unbalance of Grim energy as evil, and they were right, for Grim energy is not evil unto itself. But that much Grim energy without the counterbalance of Radiant energy unbalanced their minds.
In other terms, it drove them insane. Yet they were unaware that their minds were twisted, filled with the unbalanced Grim power. They began to form something new out of pure Chaos, a vastly different race of creatures. To keep their work hidden from their fellow Beings they went into the dark recesses of the World and there they created a new realm, the Darkhalls. This Grim place was outside the Creation Crystals rules, and there they fashioned new creatures made of pure Chaos. But the three creators did not see their creations as unbalanced, or understand their flawed and one sided nature. These new beings were fueled only by the needs of their Grim nature. But by then the three creator’s minds were also unbalanced. So they reveled in their flawed and Grim creations. Because these three Beings had been corrupted by Grim power they were later known as the Corrupted Three.

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