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The History of the Primordial Realms (and some more) in a Nutshell, in a Nutshell, Abridged, Pocket Book Version.

At first, everything began with Pure Chaos. Then, after a complex sequence of chaotic messiness, the Fair Folk came to be. Ultimately, massive beings later refered to as the "Primordials" came to be. There were three of them, and they were later named Malfeas, Gaia and Autochthon. The three Primordials shaped Creation as a bastion against the infinity of chaos outside. While the Primordials were inside Creation, Creation was laid on Gaia's shoulders, as well. It's a long story.

In Creation, the Primordial ceaselessly created wanders to fill the boundaries of Creation. When the Primordials joined their geniuses and invented humanity, the Primordials were much satisfied with their work and rested in Yu-Shan. The day after, one of the Primordials discovered the Games of Divinity.

Because of the Games' vile tricks, the Primordial siblings became more distant and more hostile to one another, and eventually, three separated ways. Creation was the most intimately bound with Gaia, so Creation was given to Gaia. The other two Primordials fashioned their own "Creations" on their own bodies. Autochthon, being a natural architect and craftsman, was successful in his efforts, creating a mechanical and technological wonderland called Autochthonia. Malfeas, however, was ruled by his passions and emotions and did not have the orderly talents required to create a world. Though his nameless Creation was a fantastic world of grandeur, its barriers soon eroded to the crashing waves of Deep Chaos. This fractured Malfeas' Essence and he was soon possessed by envy and madness.

In the end, Malfeas murdered his sister, Gaia, and tore Creation to pieces. Had it not been for Autochthon's intervention, Creation would have melted away in the infinity of Deep Chaos. For Creation's sake, Autochthon invented many new systems, structures and concepts. The sky and the earth were rearranged. Though many of Gaia's soul perished with Gaia's death, a large number of them were saved from certain death by binding themselves to the material world of Creation. The surviving subsidiary souls restructured themselves and formed the Celestial Bureaucracy. Five Elements which held Creation in place were dragged up from the Maw of Oblivion and remade as the Elemental Dragons. Finally, the shattered earth became spherical island floating the black, empty void of Gaia's absence, revolving around the stars and constellations. With the crutch of laws and causalities Autocthon implemented, Creation regained stability, though it was a much different place now.

After a while, the gods of this new Creation began to desire vengeance. Autochthon helped them create the process of Exaltation, which was imbueing mortals, which were arguably Primordial's crowning achievement, with the power of the gods. Gods and the Exalted hosts succeeded in defeating Malfeas. Though they were incapable of killing him, they were able to imprison himself on his own body and cast Malfeas into Deep Chaos, where the rest of his immortality was to be spent suffering his identity being endlessly destroyed.

Now without a suitable opponent to play the Games of Divinity with, Autochthon handed the Games to the Celestial Incarnae, the highest generals of the Primordial War. Soon, they were utterly possessed by the Games. They were possessed to a degree where even the Unconquered Sun was incapable of realizing how the malevolence of the Games bled into their Exalted children, inflicting them with horrible insanity (or, at least, this is the explanation Noi derived, when he was asked by Lytek.) The Exalted ruled Creation for a while and brought an age of boundless glory to Creation, but in the end, they were destroyed by the Great Curse.

The rest of the history of Postmodern Exalted follows similarly with canon, except for the Fair Folk Invasion, during which the Exalted Shards were eroded enough they could be tempered by the Primordials without the notice of the Celestial Incarnae. Whether this was because of the damage inflicted on the Shards by the Fair Folk or because the Incarnae were nigh literally swallowed by the Games of Divinity, the answer remains vague and perhaps irrelevant. In any case, what matters is that Creation has been infiltrated by Infernal terrorists and Alchemical saboteurs, carrying the incomprehensible goals of their respective Primordials.

Now, five years have passed since the Scarlet Empress, the sovereign of the Realm, an empire sprawling across all five constellations, disappeared without a trace and the Jade Prison was discovered and shattered. The Solars return and the universe enters the Time of Tumult.