The Three Aeons - Gap between Era 2 and 3, First Aeon

And so it was the Titans went to sleep, though still cognizant of the world. Their tremendous power allowed them to see and hear and do many mighty things, but this last era had been troubling. There was ...change on the horizon. The word of the void had declared that in the measure of time, vast and measureless though that might be, they would eventually have give way to a new kind of ruling creature, Gods. Troubling as that might be, their new sibling, born out of the unused power that slowly accrued, had brought these troublesome creatures to live earlier than they might have otherwise. Being the first of their kind, these three became the Elder Gods, which later Gods would not have quite as much power as.

The First, Klensar, a being of order and engineering, in some ways similar to Tiitloc, born out of a fictional idea created by the Alexandrians in one of their increasingly fantastic stories. It told of a race of humanoid people with pale skin, obsessed with order and cleanliness who served Tiitloc in a mighty realm in the heavens. Eventually, Klensar became real through belief in him, and so it was that the Cult of Klensar was born among all races but Dragons, for while the Shardi were slow to 'forget' their allegiance to their creator, the order and power presented by Klensar appealed to them, and as the centuries passed, even they with their nigh infinite memories began to regard the titans as only legend.

The Second, Weaver, the creator God, served in the heavens by transluscent intelligent spiders, was born by Xaoc and Alexandra (in the beliefs of the mortal kind that tried to sell another fictional story that became legend and then truth), Weaver created many more varieties of animals and plants that began to populate the world. Weaver was also popular because it became known as a God of Birth, and was thus appealed to all, even a few Dragons, for hope in producing offspring.

The Third, Pathi, was a dark creature, born out of a corruption of the legends of Banio and Sawda-Saiph, who had two aspects. One was the righteous harbinger of death and the other was the psychopathic element of destruction, hell bent on destroying the world and all in it. His race, the Pathi, were able to twist the very forces of creation and engineering, like the Dragons and the Klensari, but twisted and used to extremely destructive ends. However it was then that Banio's last secret act was revealed, and the balanced nature of Pathi, created by the balanced belief of many races of the Elder God of Destruction and Death, became only destruction and so it was that like the Metal Men before them, the Pathi began to wage war on the populace.

The only thing initially stopping them the existance of Entropium. However, the twisted nature of the Pathi enabled them to come up with counters on a fairly rapid basis, and thus, Pathi altered the Pathi so that they were able to reproduce very quickly, creating a massive amount of belief. This created three new gods, the descendants of Pathi, Death, Destruction and Doom. They were each able to grant their followers magic that was able to overcome the effects of Entropium and pass the Law of Karma off onto others using complex and dark rituals.

The Law of Karma proved harder to fool than might be thought, however, for while it could be passed off against an individual for a while, it could not be put away for ever, thus leading to vast pyramid schemes of Scape Karmas who took the blame for thier dark master, all centering on a vast and powerful lord who would inevitably fall to a group of those blessed with an exceeding amount of Good Karma.

And so it was that seven cycles rose and fell with Seven Dark lords, held in check by Klensar and Weaver against Pathi and the dark gods that served under him. The races united, only to be thrown back. The Cartels eventually fell, to be replaced by the Cults of the Gods, to be replaced by the Seven Great Nation States, giant citadels built to wishstand the seasonal rise and fall of Pathi that bred to kill them only to be thrown back.

At last, towards the end of the interum, the Law of Corruption set in. The Dragons, as a price for their immortality, began to Sleep in proportion to the vibrancy and energy they expelled in life. The longer they stayed away and the mightier they lived,the more they had to sleep, leaving their most valorous and glorious asleep in the center of the earth when the eigth wave came. The price of the Power, was that the Dragons also were more subject to the Law of Karma than most. This led to some becoming uninvolved and unwilling to intervene in the world, and others retiring to the mountains. Without the mightiest race to help them, the alliances between the city states crumbled. The Alexandrians were cursed with spates of random spontanity and madness, sometimes lasting a day, sometimes years, usually proportional to the amount of wisdom that they had. The Shardi became cruel, often callous in their actions. The elementals having received no gifts, had no curses, but they had neither the might of the dragons, nor the short reproduction cycles or wisdom of the Alexandrians nor the engineering prowess or foresight of the Shardi.

Pathi could see that in this, the eighth cycle, he was winning, with four of the seven city states having fallen, with only the Mountain of Fire, the Valley of Tiitloc and the Citadel of Light (built around the Obelisk of Light) standing against the millions of Pathi that covered the surface and held a dinner where he hoped to negotiate with his siblings. He had dinner but poisoned Weaver, and left Klensar greatly weakened.

Pathi was certain to gain complete domination of the world, culminating ultimately in its destruction...

And then the Titans awoke a final time...