Mystical Origins: The Titan Age of Imperia's Universe

Lesson 3
Mystical Origins: The Titan Age of Imperia's Universe

The multiverse had already been established and the Ten Primals selected. Krondor, Vertax, Taidet, Argus. Mezul, Tempest, Daeril, Kraeth, Aquas and Ashtar were placed as the Ten to guide over and develop this universe. With several of the worlds already made, and a few already seeded with life, a new threat arose from afar.

Recorded history isn't entirely sure what this new threat was. All that was known about it was that it was occurring in another multiverse in the domain of another group of Ten Primals, and Krondor and his band were selected to go assist their own kind in repealing the threat. Some claim this threat was a temporal paradox, others that a sect of demons had arisen and was trying to take over and some speculate that this threat was a sudden surge of Umbral Blots that had invaded a universe. All that is for certain is that the Primals had to leave, but they had one problem they needed to deal with before they could go and answer the urgent plea for help.

Only a small segment of the planets in the galaxy had been given life and just few dozen races and creatures created. Also time would be needed for these creatures to evolve and develop civilizations. Those developing cultures would need to be protected and watched over, least some dark forces wipe them out while the Primals were all gone. So to oversee the universe they made a new race, one filled with immense power by the Primals. This race was called the Titans. To create a system of authority among them, the Primals established three types of Titans - Elder Titans, Greater Titans, and Lesser Titans.

The exact power of the Titans was not fully known, however some estimated the Elder Titans were %95 as powerful as a Primal, the Greater Titans %80 and the Lesser Titans around %60. However these are just estimates and guesses from sages and scholars across the ages. Two Elder Titans were made, and then four Greater Titans, and then Eight Lesser Titans. Each sect was given their own duties and agendas, with the Elder Titans as overseers and life creators, the Greater Titans as planet crafters and the Lesser Titans as subordinates placed in control of galactic quadrants.

The Two Elder Titans, Theasilios & Lominos, were made to represent the light and the dark as a natural balance and to counteract each other. Despite this natural hostility towards each other, Lominos respected the rule of the wiser and more revered Theasilios. Theasilios oversaw the Four Greater Titans. However while there were four, only the names of three (Sennak, Kolis, & Solon) are known. The name of the fourth Greater Titan was never found out. Beneath these four were the Eight Lesser Titans -Orius, Kasgen, Moira, Eudestus, Desans, Arenthumycus, Phitrumone & Oenolapis. Theasilios guided them all forward, as they created all of the planets and most of the lifeforms known today. On a planet called Earth, Theasilios presided within a grand castle in what was known as the Artic on Earth, however at that time the Artic was located in a tropical zone as Earth had a different axial tilt. To Lominos, Theasilios left the planet of Imperia in his charge.

Lominos was to preside over the lands and the races the Primals first created. However soon his own arrogance wanted him to create a race in his own image, however for a long time he held back his own arrogant desires for a race modeled after his own image and ideals. But one day he would meet great temptation..

The exact story of Lominos's temptation has several different versions however two versions of the story stand out the greatest. The first version dealt with Lominos finding a beautiful elf and her brother, and thus seducing them both into darkness. The woman was corrupted, and altered into a type of demonic demigod. She was given great power and her lust for such power grew. Eventually her and Lominos consummated their desires together and this woman bore Lominos the first of an entire race of children.

The second version had a reverse twist and a totally different type of creature. In this second version of the tale it is said a Succubus came to Lominos and seduced him, offering him unthinkable pleasures if he would but submit to her desires. Lominos, while powerful, was the victim of his own desires and soon he and this Succubus fell into an affair of lust, sex and darkness. When the Succubus found she could not steal his powers through intimacy, she decided to remain with him as his mate. Soon she was with child and began a race born of the Titan and the Succubus. In both stories the name of this race that was the result of Lominos and the Demon/Succubus's union remains the same - The Verdane.

The Verdane, children of Lominos and the Demon (Or Succubus if you believe more in the second story than the first) was to be placed as the dominant race of humanoids on the planet, made after Lominos image and with the ideals of their mother. She and Lominos soon gave birth to several more, using Lomions's power to bring about their gestation and growth quickly and train them in how to establish such a civilization among Imperia. It is even said in some tales that Lominos and his mate lay, constantly conceiving and birthing the Verdane for over a century till they felt the race was plentiful enough. However this lesson's focus is on the Titans, and not the Verdane so the fate of this race will be discussed more in detail and much later.

Lominos was pleased with his children as they were strong like him, breed to be grand rulers of the planet. However soon they embraced the inner darkness of their mother, embraced more hideous and sadistic ways and eventually Lominos own lustful endeavor was revealed to Theasilios. Lominos was soon held liable for his actions, and the menace set forth by the Verdane. His mate vanished however. Some stories say she fled and joined with another rising god sect of a new race called the Dre'ak, others that she was destroyed by Theasilios herself. And others claim she was not of this time entirely, from either the distant past or the distant future. Her fate remained a mystery for all time as well as her identity. However centuries later a few Sages would claim to of found her identity, and they offered only cryptic knowledge of her.

The most popular opinion among scholars, sages and researchers of this era of history was that both stories were indeed true and that the mother of the Verdane was in fact Illiara. However no proof was ever found to support this claim and it has gone on to be more the third theory than a solid answer to the age old questions. Moving along with the tale, the Titans all knew of the Verdane now and deemed them a massive failure. A second attempt was to be made, this time by Theasilios who would go to create his own race on the planet of his choosing, one he deemed to be the new cradle of the universe's greatest civilization ever.

This new race, to be created by the Titans and nurtured over time, was to be called the Humans. A grand civilization was made for them in the middle of what would later be called the Atlantic Ocean and thus this civilization and race was called the Atlantians or Atlantis. The Verdane quietly slipped into the background, hidden from any intent to exterminate them by Lominos. Over time the Titans grew more and more greedy with their power, as well as abusing several of the races and worlds for their own amusement. Thousands upon thousands of years passed before this reign of terror was ever stopped however, it was not stopped in a way many would suspect.

The battle involving the Primals on the other multiverse was taking far longer than they initially suspected it would. The reasons behind this are unclear, but some point that one or two Primals of that other multiverse's set rebelled for reasons unknown. Krondor had to dispatch one of the Primals to go back to their original multiverse and check on the Primal's progress, however all were needed to fight the battle. Krondor decided to pick the Primal that was tactically the weakest and send him back to check in. This move however would prove to be a large error.

Ashtar, the weakest of the Primals, was sent. However he was also very smart and cunning. When he returned, he was able to see in complete detail all of the deeds and crimes the Titans had committed. However instead of acting for the common good of the group and returning straight to Krondor, Ashtar saw this as his chance to remove Krondor and went straight to the Primal Hierarchy, revealing to them the entire story but in a different twist. Ashtar claimed the Titans were acting under Krondor's direct orders. The Hierarchy took matters into their own hands, sending another Primal, Lothos, to go speak to Krondor and determine his guilt or innocence. The Hierarchy decided to entrust Ashtar with enough power to, in one fell swoop, eliminate the Titans. Ashtar however had other plans and he set forth back towards the multiverse where the Titans now where.

Ashtar returned to the multiverse, determined to insure his place ahead of the other Primals as the new leader of the Ten. Ashtar spread forth his power, selecting a few of the humans from Earth and granting them great power and charging them forth with the task of removing the Titans. Ashtar did not ask the other Titans for the full story, instead he was occupied with creating a new stronger race of Gods under his direct authority. However Ashtar was not aware that the power given to him by the Hierarchy was more than enough power of all Ten of the Primals combined. This, combined with the greed of man, made the new set of Gods created more of a threat than could ever be imagined. Ashtar however remained smug, feeling confident that when the dust settled he could easily dispatch this new breed of Gods - The Olympians.

The Olympians were lead by the mighty Zeus, and soon other such powerful Gods and Goddesses emerged such as Hera, Ares, Hades and Athena. Zeus and his people fought, brutally slaying several of the Titans with power that surpassed that of even Ashtar. This surprised him, however he still remained smug that the Olympians would never be a threat to the Primals. For now however, he was right. The Olympians killed several Titans, and imprisoned the rest. However two had escaped... The first escaped Titan was more by an accident, as during the fighting with Zeus, the Titan Orius had been mortally wounded. In a last ditch effort to ensure his survival, Orius merged with his Troll minion Saber. When the result of this merging magic was found, Zeus and Ashtar both dismissed this creature as nothing more than a laughable threat.

This creature, the result of the merging of Orius and Saber, called himself Galadore and was very weak when Zeus and Ashtar found him. It is said that when Zeus first beheld Galadore, he was filled with a sudden sense of terror and a unexplainable urge to kill Galadore, as if his very survival was dependent on it. Ashtar laughed off Zeus's demands, and said that Galadore was, and never shall be a worry. Zeus bowed to Ashtar's wisdom (Despite how wrong Ashtar would later be proven) and had Galadore encased into stone and sent off into the vastness of space. Zeus feared Galadore would one day return, however his fears were meet by a smug grin of Ashtar, who claimed he was certain that Galadore would never be seen again. Time would prove Ashtar wrong.

The second Titan to escape was the Elder Titan Lominos. As Ares, Hades and Zeus closed in on him Lominos, with a motion of his hand, tore apart a hole into the fabric of time itself. Lominos swore that when his mate was again back in this universe and in a position of power, and when Zeus had returned that he would one day reappear. Lominos leaped into the rift and was never seen again.

Zeus and his warriors hunted down the rest of the Titans, urged on by Ashtar. Of the Greater Titans Sennak was imprisoned, Kolis and Solon killed in battle. The fourth Greater Titan was never found and believed to of been imprisoned or of also escaped. The Lesser Titans were also all hunted down, all but Kasgen, Moira, Desans and Eudestus having been killed. Orius was presumed dead after his merging with Saber to become Galadore, and Zeus had personally defeated Arenthumycus, Phitrumone & Oenolapis in battle. With that done, Ashtar set Zeus in charge of the multiverse and he returned to Krondor and the others, grinning smugly and thinking that Krondor was to have already been destroyed. Ashtar however didn't get what he wanted but that is also a story for another time. With the last Titan locked away, Zeus having crafted his throne of Mt. Olympus on Earth, and Galadore condemned to drift along the vastness of space for millennia the Titan Age had come to an end and the Olympian Age had begun.

Zeus however could never shake off this feeling that one day he and Galadore would cross paths again. Despite Ashtar's words claiming the opposite, one day Galadore would indeed return. The universe had not heard the last of Galadore...