The Elemental Wars

The Elemental Wars are still technically going on, but there was once a time where they were most prevalent. They fought hard, each plane fighting with constant changes in allies and enemies, it was never ending. For many millennia this continued, but other than constant invasions upon other planes the Astral Plane became a battle field. The Higher Gods and Ordeus, although generally already against the wars saw some of their own killed in either the crossfire of as part of the war itself, and so the gods proposed that they create a battle field, in which the elementals are free to fight as they wish. Rex-Aurum created such a plane, the Prime Material Plane names Illantris, he used material from each plane to create a fair battlefield.

The battlefield created a shift in the cosmos, planes crossed in unusual ways, a creature could exist in all the planes at once but none at all, the cosmos was unstable. And so Kallari, who understood the need for balance, realised that there needed to be something to oppose the existence of Illantris, a shadow of the world. Kallari created the Shadow Plane, a shadow or reflection of the Prime Material Plane, it is dark, and barely habitable. Kallari moved to this plane permanently.

Once Illantrus was created and stable the wars, over many millennia, carved and forged the landscape. The Ordeus that were made for each of the planes created a new weapon.

cont. The Age Of Dragons.