Introduction to The World Gaia

Meta
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.

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.

History
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 weight upon Gaia was, however, too much. So she allowed the æther to fall through her. But she trapped some æther above which formed a vapour and then Neptune. The æther that had been allowed to pass below Gaia, however, had become trapped against the edge of the universe and had become doomed to be used for the petty whims of mortal men.

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 Earthand 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
Gaia and Neptune soon realized that if the elementals continued to spawn in their existing rate soon they would be completely consumed. They considered the subject long and hard and decided the only full solution would be to bar æther from rising to the surface again. Originally Gaia's existence did this perfectly but with the creation of another three dimensions gaps had appeared. They resolved to seal the greatest of these gaps with four great gates.

They tried many different things to destroy the elementals but found that they merely made the elementals stronger and more united. Eventually faced by four nations of elementals Gaia and Neptune realized that they could not defeat the elemtentals and so submitted to their dominance for the time. They watched the elemnentals for 54 days looking for weaknesses. First they observed their biology. Then they moved to planing out how they would react to different things before they hit upon a conclusion.

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.

However one of the original elementals was developing a secret weapon which would single-handedly turn the rest of the war into a small battle against rebels that they could almost certainly win. They decided that despite the fact that their army of combined elementals had decided not to fight the weapon could bring about victory anyway. So they detonated it.

It is irelivant which group of original elementals talked about above as they all did the same thing. Each group of elementals have differing reasons that were proposed for and against using the weapon but they all made the same decision. All the weapons had different ways in which they worked but they all had the same effect.

Those weapons caused the end of the cities in which the elementals lived and displaced them from their homes.