Primordials, Deities and Elemental Avatars
- Book 0: Origins and Cosmology
- 1. Character Histories
- 1. Aranx's Origin
- 2. Darkon's Origin
- 3. Nulgath's Origin
- 4. Dage's Origin
- 5. The Shadowscythe Inheritance
- 6. Drakath's Origin
- 7. The Crown of Greenguard
- 8. Skye’s Lothian Dynasty
- 2. The Fused Timelines
- 3. The Lost Crew of Carcossa
- 4. Primordials, Deities and Elemental Avatars
The powers that shape Lore, their realms and followers, and the relationships between Elemental Avatars, Champions, Titans, and Great Dragons.
Primordials and Other Powers
Being | Title | Key Sagas | Lore and Story Role |
|---|---|---|---|
Eternal Sovereign | All Sagas | You, the protagonist, whose fusion of four timelines created Lore's present universe and unstable Mana Core. | |
Adimonde | The Fiend God | Nulgath's Origin, War of the Underworld, Nulgath's Circle | The sentient edge of existence at the heart of a black hole where the universe's dust piles in the absence of death. Forever hungry, he devours Archfiends and fiend shards. |
The Bright One | Aranx's Origin, Celestial Sagas | Formed from the energy released from Lore when Galanoth slew the Eternal Dragon of Time, Anethyx'o created the Celestial Realm. Its pursuit of absolute order and perfection later drove it to reshape Celestials and Infernals alike into mindless Eudae. | |
The Arcana | The Twenty-Two | Darkon's Origin, Darkon's Elegy of Madness | A primordial entity shattered into twenty-two pieces, from the Fool to the World. Astravia's first king pledged to reunite them. Drago and Darkon later pursued their power at tremendous human cost. |
Aiwass | The Dreaming Aeon | Age of Ruin III: The Flame from Beyond | An otherworldly being whose body lies on Mount Albedo while it continues to dream. Its followers share emotions and memories through communion. Lucas Bligh's scroll says it escaped a parallel dimension consumed by fire. |
Death | Personification of death | Chaos Begins, Chaos Finale | The personification of death, whom you slay and temporarily replace during the Chaos Finale. |
God of the Depths | Chaos Lord Iadoa, The Voice in the Sea, Unseen Depths | Primordial of the abyssal ocean whose godhood is directly tied to your power as the Eternal Dragon of Time. | |
Desterrat Moya | The Banished One | Assault of the Banished One | An Elder One banished after clashing with the gods, summoned by undead seeking freedom from their masters. |
Jalnar (That) | The Deceiver | Coldwind Valley | An entity masquerading as the Frostval elf Jingles in the frozen north. |
Noddharath | The Devourer in the Dark | Infernal Invasion | The creature that blocks the refugees' escape through Darkovia during the Infernal Invasion. Constantin recognizes neither a revenant nor an Infernal in it. The refugees get no answer about where it came from. |
Regional and Conceptual Deities
Beyond the Primordials and the Elemental Avatars, several regional deities shape the nations of Lore:
Deity | Title | Key Sagas | Lore and Story Role |
|---|---|---|---|
The Warfury, Goddess of War | Shadows of War, Age of Ruin | The Warfury calls herself a younger, lesser embodiment of war. She uses the conflict with Malgor to increase her influence and later names the Law as her benefactor and the right to write law as her reward. | |
The God of Storms | Age of Ruin II: Cold Thunder | Skye's old storm god, whose body became Lia Tara Hill. After Iona's defeat, Tanaris describes becoming the new Avatar of Energy. | |
Ai No Mikoto | The Great Yokai Spirit | Yokai Myths I | The joined form of Empress Ai No Miko and the Great Yokai Spirit, formed during Koschei's attack. If they remain joined too long, one personality may absorb the other. |
Apophis | Serpent God of the Duat | Triad of Doom II (Duat) | The ancient Sandsea deity, distinct from the Doom Spirit that usurped his name and temple. |
Dzeza | The Ravenous | Unseen Depths | An otherworldly deity of hunger and mutation worshipped in the Sunken City and Elodea Temple. |
The Endless Winter | Glace's Tomb and Fimbul's Tomb | A fallen Northlands god whose spirit possesses Glace's corpse and threatens Lore with endless winter. | |
Sun and Moon of the Northlands | Eclipse Ascent | The Northlands' former celestial twins, captured and drained of divinity by Arche and Himiko, then held prisoner in their shrines. | |
Spirit of Rot and Decay | Tricktown and Mogloween | A greater spirit essential to the cycle of life and death, imprisoned by Rhody as a mana battery and freed after being calmed. |
The Elemental Avatars
An Elemental Avatar represents a Plane. Champions are chosen by their Planes to act on Lore, while Titans and Great Dragons serve as other powerful agents. The Avatars meet in the Firmament. During the Planar Conflicts, the older Avatars sought to extend their Planes across Lore. Their later bonds with Champions and worshippers helped restrain that ambition.
Element | Elemental Avatar | Known Champion(s) | Lore and Story Role |
|---|---|---|---|
Fire | Galanoth; Kolr and earlier Champions (historical) | Fiamme admits relighting the forges to strengthen Galanoth, opening the way for Kolr's return. Galanoth challenges her motives. When Kolr confronts her, she admits abandoning him and apologizes. | |
Water | Captain Rhubarb (current); Undine (deceased) | Sought to use the Drowning Machine (Sparagmos) to dissolve Kathool and reclaim mortal worship. The Law and Infamy Silence her and return her to her Plane. Rhubarb later believes she remains awake. | |
Nature | Terrane | Terrane watches over the Plane of Nature. The Sunset Saga reveals guilt and shame she has kept hidden. | |
Wind | Former Champion turned Archfiend | Rodeleros served Khazri after becoming a Fiend, and Khazri permitted her to call herself a Titan. When she transformed the Wind Champion into another Fiend, Khazri encouraged that Champion to kill her. The victor became an Archfiend. | |
Earth | Beryl (exiled) | Avatar of Earth who stood with Fiamme and Neso during the ShadowFlame invasion of the Elemental Planes. | |
Metal | Ying Zhao / Yiren | Avatar of Metal tied to the ancient history of Wuji and the Yokai Isles. | |
Energy | Tanaris (successor); Haeos (former) | Gaheris (historical) | Abel uses Gaheris's soul to force Haeos to yield his title and power to Iona. After her destruction, Tanaris believes they have become the new Avatar, while still sorting out whether that means inheriting or merging with Haeos. |
Ice | Kyanos (comatose) | Abel (Envoy); Glace and Quetzal (former Champions) | Kyanos lies in a vegetative state. His Envoy Abel acts in his absence across Lore, Embersea, and Skye. |
Light | Gravelyn; Lynaria, Cortain, Dagnah, Uisun, Sudryal (historical) | The remembered Champions describe being discarded or killed in Celeritas's service. Uisun sought peace with the Dark and treated Eopsin as family. | |
Darkness | Artix is the Champion of Darkness. Gravelyn is the Champion of Light. | ||
Chaos | Drakath; Proto Chaos Champion (first, historical) | Sealed away after her first reign and freed at the end of the 13 Lords of Chaos, the Queen is the Avatar of Chaos and mother of the monstrous Children. | |
Mana | Einsof | The Avatar of Mana, whose birth the Old Worlds' Order suppresses. Tara, the Champion of Mana, befriends Einsof. After helping resolve Malgor's loop, Einsof is confined again by the Order. |