Lidarion: Page 33

The first and most important thing to understand is that even for Gods, creating a world is no easy task. Existence is an internetworked set of complex systems that must constantly be checked and balanced. Creation is not just an act of will, it is a mental and emotional endurance trial.

The second most important thing is that to create something like life on a planet is not a short term act. The process undertaken by the beings that reached out and touched this planet did not do so under the impression that they would set into motion a series of events that would outlast them.

It is not known if the guiding hands that shaped life on this planet fully understood the complexity of the undertaking, or if the creation of conscious life was part of their plan from the very beginning. What is known is what the Titans recorded of their one and only meeting with their creators.

The titans were designed to be the stewards and overseers of the planet. They were to live on and take care of their home all the ages that it would exist. Time was not something the titans had any interest in quantifying but their creators bred into them an understanding of its passage. It was not until the creators disappeared that the Titans felt they had anything worthy of recording or remembering. The first record created by the Titans is a simple rudimentary comment.

Today, for the first time, we are truly alone.

Once this observation had been made. The titans saw a need to protect and oversee history in the same way they had safeguarded the planet. Even still, it is not known exactly how much time passed between the disappearance of the creators and the evolution of the elven race.

What is known down to the minute is the date the elves killed the first titan.

The Elven record of the titan war is a never ending nightmare of blood and fire. The titan record is nothing more than a list of names and their date of death. There are several recordings that detail how the war ended. The elder elves claim that the death of the king’s son turned his stomach and heart away from the desire for war. The wild elves records claim that their exodus from their ancient homeland reduced the elven numbers so low that they could not sustain the fight against the titans.

What is known is that ultimately the war caused the Titans to lose the desire to pursue the very purpose they were created to fulfill. Even the titans records post war were fewer and farer between.

As the Titans recorded less, the Elves recorded more, and one of the things they took note of was the constantly decreasing numbers of titans wandering the planet.

It was in these final years of the titans that the paragons were created. So like their creators before them, they created life.

It was in the pursuit of this final goal that the world entered its second age.