Editing Creation of the Multiverse (section)

== Six: The Primordials Chained ==
With little warning, the primordials began wreaking havoc on their own planes, threatening to smash through the boundaries between their realms and the Material Plane. Their reason for doing this was unclear until the gods discovered several planar holes torn in the Elemental Chaos, seeping energy from the Far Realm into the Inner Planes and causing the primordials to go insane. Not wanting a second Sundering or for this energy to reach the Outer Planes, the gods entered the Elemental Planes and attempted to seal these rifts. The primordials fought back and the Primordial War began. The gods quickly realized they could not kill or destroy the primordials, so one of them (likely a Loki or trickster type god) pulled a stunt that forever altered the Inner Planes and forced the gods to create the Prism: the god punctured the boundary of the Negative Energy Plane, suffusing the Inner Planes with entropy, or death.

Why this god did this is unknown. Most believe it was a desperate bid to kill the primordials using entropy, but others believe this god was tricked by the primordials to release entropy into the multiverse. In any case, the primordials were unaffected by entropy, as Entropy himself was one of them. Meanwhile, the gods ''were'' affected and became “infected” with entropy, which caused them to quickly wither and die. Many of the ancient gods were heavily injured or even killed outright by the primordials during this time. As they died, their essence of divinity mixed with the powerful forces of the elements as well as the positive and negative energies, creating a colorful swirl of new arcane energy we call the Weave. Yes, that’s right — the Spellweave is made out of dead gods. This energy was suffused in the Inner Planes, particularly the Material Plane, in which it filled the void between the worlds. 

Meanwhile, the primordials found the gods’ Divinity as noxious as entropy was to the gods, and thus the gods finally discovered a way to weaken the primordials enough to trap them: basically bleed on them.

In a last ditch effort, the gods, through a great and terrible crusade, managed to chain the primordials in the depths of the Elemental Chaos, using powerful wards created with their own divine blood to prevent them from escaping. They then departed the Inner Planes, with a few neutral good gods sacrificing themselves to seal the Negative Energy Plane prior to leaving. Then one of the gods used the Weave to create the Prism, constructing a powerful gate separating the Inner Planes, the primordials, and mortality, from the Outer Planes. In doing so, this god/dess became the god/dess of magic, and the only god capable of destroying the Prism.

Despite their quarantining of the Inner Planes, many of the gods were infected with entropy, and many of them perished. Some gods did not die, however, despite being infected. It was discovered that these gods continued to exist because beings in various worlds in the Material Plane had heard about them by titans who were also living in those worlds. The gods were being worshiped by some of these beings. Ironically, the beings considered the gods “perfect” in all things. They were, essentially, Objective Beauty, infallible in every way. That worship acted as a healing salve of sorts to the gods, who were able to sustain their presence in the multiverse due to this worship. Thus, some gods formed a symbiotic relationship with their worshipers, giving some of them a sliver of their power in exchange for their continued worship.