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== One: The Primordials & The Three Eternities == Covoran explains that before time there were the Three Eternities, times which were so long that to count them in years would be impossible. In the beginning there was Chaos, or the Void, depending on how you chose to perceive it.<ref>Covoran explains that no titans were around to experience this, and the primordials are now locked away—thus the philosophical concept of the Nothing is essentially “half-empty vs half-full”. Some titans believed the Void was true nothingness, while others believed that it must have been full of the matter necessary to coalesce into life. Truth be told, Covoran doesn’t even know if it was actually an “eternity” of time, only that time likely ceased to exist then.</ref> This is the '''First Eternity, the Eternity of Nothing'''. For all divine and primordial creatures, the First Eternity is considered the longest—longer than all known spans of time, longer than the Second and Third Eternities, longer than any concept of time, all put together. In fact, it is likely that time itself did not even exist during the First Eternity. Eventually, for reasons unknown, over a period of time longer than anyone could ever know, the Void slowly coalesced into the six Great Primordials. This was the '''Second Eternity, the Eternity of Cohesion'''. These primordials represented the raw elements and energy that would eventually create the material world: Air, Earth, Fire, and Water were the physical material; Syntropy, or Something, and Entropy, or Nothing, were the materials of energy and non-energy. Their forms began to emerge through the raw Void, being both primordial avatars as well as the planes in which they resided. These primordials embodied massive impossible elemental power, as well as the energy required to manipulate those elements. The power to shape the Chaos into something else. And so began the formation of the Elemental Planes, six realms in which the original primordials lived. At this time, there were no boundaries that separated these primordial planes, causing them to intermingle. This created the para- and quasi-elemental planes, and with them, new primordials (sometimes called the Primordial Children or the Lesser Primordials) that embodied those elements. Magma, Salt, Ash, etc. Syntropy, the primordial who embodied Something (which we might call Life), coalesced the Positive Energy Plane, which became the first light of a new multiverse. In return, however, this light cast a shadow against the Elemental Planes, which Entropy, who embodied Nothing (which we might call Death) warped into the Negative Energy Plane below. The primordials existed like this for the '''Third Eternity, the Eternity of Sleep''', during which they rested and their elements commingled. Meanwhile, in the center of these new primordial planes, a new plane began to emerge: the Material Plane. Acting as a balance against the Elemental Chaos (the outer edge of the Inner Planes, where all the elements roiled against each other), the Material Plane was essentially a blank slate, an area where the raw Chaos was refined to a more applicable Order. The only problem was that it was small, impossibly small compared to the greatness of the Elemental Planes. The primordials literally could not do anything with it due to their immense size and innate connection to their own planes. A pinpoint amid the Chaos. So, in concordance with Syntropy, the primordial of Life, who had distanced themselves from the others long ago for reasons unknown,<ref>Covoran reiterates that the primordials are “mysterious” and “carry out tasks and plans without thought.” Many primordiologists suggest that this is a continuation of the “intelligence” of the different entities: if the Titans were not sophisticated enough to understand Beauty, but the Arbiters (essentially their children) were, then it follows that, perhaps, the primordials had an even more unsophisticated “rawness” that was enacted as spontaneity, much like a child’s chaotic nature versus an adult’s logic.</ref> the primordials undertook the arduous task of creating the Titans.
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