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== Three: The Arbiters & The Concept of Beauty ==
A surprisingly large and important issue within the titanomachy was the issue of aesthetics. The primordials, and by extension their titans, were creatures entirely and wholly created from natural, terrestrial Chaos. The primordials created Creators and Shapers to make worlds, and Destroyers to destroy them, but they never taught the titans ''why'' they should make or destroy worlds. And so, for a very long time, the Destroyers never destroyed anything, because there was no reason to, no standard for what made a world destroyable. This, as you might expect, caused a tremendous amount of frustration from them.

Eventually this frustration bubbled over and the Destroyers destroyed ''everything'' in a fit of rage. Every world that had been created, the Destroyers destroyed. And they nearly destroyed their own brethren in their fury as well.

The Material Plane a wreck, the other titans convened, agreeing that they needed a rubric by which to assess whether or not a world was “good” enough to not be destroyed. The problem was that the titans had no earthly concept of aesthetics, beauty, or utility. Many of the first generation worlds were aberrant or absurd in their creation — worlds made entirely out of silt, worlds where water flowed upwards, worlds composed of deadly gasses. In short, the titans didn’t know what they were doing. They wanted to ask the primordials for help, but A) they could no longer contact them due to the planar barrier that they could not cross, and B) even if they could, they would quickly realize that the primordial planes were effectively as bad or worse in their own creations.

The issue was that the titans at the time had no concept of what made a world “good,” and at their titanic convention, they tried to devise a standard which would make that determination. They ultimately decided to take a fragment of their separate powers and combine them, to make a new entity they called Arbiters. These entities were simply glowing orbs of light that had a fragment of the powers of all three types of titans. They were “learning” entities, as Covoran described it, created to analyze and judge worlds to decide if they were worth saving. What the titans didn’t know is that these Arbiters were created out of a power we now call the divine essence, or Divinity.

The Arbiters were little more than balls of sentient light. When titans created a world, the Arbiters would inspect it and determine if it satisfied two functions: Beauty and Utility. If it did, the world was saved; otherwise, the Destroyers would consume it. 

This was how the second generation of worlds were created. It was not easy. Originally, the Arbiters had to learn what constituted Beauty and Utility, which resulted in millions of “imperfect” worlds; however, as time went on the Arbiters became better and better at analyzing worlds, eventually reaching a point where they began to help the titans create worlds as well as judging them. This was the beginning of the end for the titans.