The World of Gods and Men

  Artist's depiction of the Age of Gods, showing members of the Divine Family living and working alongside the peoples of early Eldoria. Thalor is shown offering guidance to ordinary men and women, whilst Elandra, Arathor, Lysander, Nymira, and Morrigan each perform the roles for which they became renowned. Though no contemporary artwork from the period survives, the scene reflects themes that appear consistently throughout the earliest surviving sources. Introduction In the previous article, we examined the creation of the World, the birth of humanity, and the descent of Thalor and the Divine Family from Aethyr. Those events marked the end of the Creation Era and the beginning of a new chapter in human history.

A popular artistic depiction of Thalor during the Creation. Though painted many centuries after the event itself, such imagery reflects the widespread belief that the Creator fashioned the World as an artist creates a masterpiece. Introduction Among all the questions that have occupied the minds of scholars, priests, and philosophers throughout the ages, none is older than that of our world's beginning. How was the World created? Where did humanity come from? And by what means did the Gods first come to walk amongst mortals?

History is a fragile thing. Kingdoms rise and fall. Libraries burn. Languages change. With each passing century, another fragment of the past is lost to time. Yet not all is forgotten.