Introduction to The World Gaia



First a few key terms, Swords of Wrath is the name for the RPG that I will mention in the meta section. The name doesn't come from any particularly important swords but there is/was an idea that they might be. The Word: Gaia or simply Gaia is the setting.

The Start, how swords of wrath began
In Easter of 2017 me and my brother were bored. Bored bored bored. So we hatched a plan: a full blow, scrolling MMO RPG in scratch known as Swords of Wrath. I had been playing World of Warcraft for some time and was sure (and still am) that it could defiantly be done better. so was eager to get to work. Now community killed the idea through 101 different ways (3 technically but that was enough) nevertheless I have continued to develop the world gaia and am currently working on a book, a standard RPG, a short story and several dozen other things.

The Dawn of Time
At first there was nowhere. There was no time and no space for there to be none of. And then the universe sprung into existence, a 2 dimensional space, the dimensions are now known as the 4th and 5th dimensions by mortals, which was impossible to quantify yet did have a bound, full of empty, dark grey void.

Then into this universe came, from above the 5th dimension, æther, a deep purple fluid that leisurely swam into the universe. However it rested and settled with it's lower levels solidifying and distilling until they became Gaia. The æther struggled against Gaia until it became to much and Gaia allowed most of it down bellow her (trapping a little to form Neptune). However something went wrong and the æther became trapped against the edge of the universe.

Gaia and Neptune decided to make a demonstration of their new found power to create another set of dimensions and not wanting to be out done by the universe before they created three. But this drained their power and so they could not create dimentions which like the original ones were both endless and with an edge.

This also caused the elements that they were formed out of to become less and less mixed and to begin to clump together until one day a craggy edge of Gaia became made only out of the element Earth and a drop of Gaia that flew into the Neptune before it could be reabsorbed became only made out of water.

This, of course, caused an imbalance in those areas that split them permanently from Gaia thrusting consciousness upon them creating what are now known as the elementals named after the elements that Gaia and Neptune have always been made of. This displeased Gaia despite the fact that in her weakened state she could do nothing to stop it. Meanwhile, Neptune was having his own problems for from him came the other opposed pair : Fire and Air.

The Great Elemental War
To get vengeance upon the elementals Gaia and Neptune forced them into a war with each other which raged across the surface of there new dimensions which lasted nigh on a millennia. During it the elementals created greater and more powerful weapons in an attempt to out do the other and even merged to form new and more powerful combined elementals

The elementals were completely and radically different. And they hated each other. True they had never met but Gaia and Neptune soon introduced them to each other and soon a war started. The war of the elementals was long and bloody and stretched over the space of centuries with the elementals combining to form new and ever more powerful elementals in an attempt to get the upper hand. Although the resolve of the original elementals never wavered, the combined elementals were new elementals where unconvinced. They formed a plan. They would refuse to fight on the break of day on the 1000th year since the start of the great elemental war. And they did.

The original elementals however had developed ever stronger weapons which they decided to unleash upon their opponents. These scorched the air and destroyed the land; they shattered the sea and chilled the flames. And it is they which formed the world in which we now live and evicted the elementals from their homes and position of power.

Brave New World
The Combined Elementals designed a new world to cheer themselves up from the destruction of the old one.

Much of the land had been reshaped by the weapons, the old plateau on which earth had sat had been carved up into mountains and had spewed a muddy expanse out into the sea while Athelron had been thrust up from the waves. The volcanoes that had dominated the tops of the mountain ranges were now tempered and the old raging winds that dominated the land above the sea had calmed.

But this was a little bland and so the combined elementals decorated it with many different features such as rivers, hills and if they were feeling a little adventurous tors or mountains.

Then they added to the world vegetation and a few species and it came to be dominated by the few species that had evolved on their own from elements (known as pseudo-elementals).