As recorded in fragments, forbidden tomes, druidic song, and half-remembered prophecy
Before Andorea, there was no world, no sky, no time—only possibility without meaning. Within this vast, undefined potential existed the first truths: light, shadow, growth, death, change, form, fire, and absence. These truths did not yet have will.
From this state emerged the beings later known as the Firstbound.
They were not created.
They coalesced—each drawn irresistibly to a fundamental concept that demanded embodiment. In doing so, they became bound to it forever. Light became Aurelion. Shadow became Nyxara. Life became Elarion. Death became Morveth. Fire and dominion became Khar’zul. Change became Thalassar. Form and perfection became Zaharet. Fate and moon became the Lunarch powers. And absence became Nullivar.
Their existence defined reality—but it also destabilized it.
As the Firstbound awoke, their domains pressed outward, colliding violently. Light rejected shadow. Fire consumed growth. Change unraveled form. Absence gnawed at meaning itself. Reality fractured into contradictory states—worlds forming and unforming simultaneously.
This chaos would have ended everything before it began.
Nullivar’s influence grew fastest in this era. Entire proto-realities were erased before they could settle, and even the Firstbound risked dissolving into irrelevance.
To prevent annihilation, the Firstbound enacted the First Accord, an act of collective self-sacrifice remembered as the Binding.
Each Firstbound anchored themselves to a single, stable reality—Andorea—and in doing so:
Gave the world permanence
Limited their own power
Forbade direct divine war
Accepted eternal constraint
They did not create Andorea from nothing.
They stabilized it—holding it in place by embodying its laws.
Nullivar was bound most tightly of all, sealed into the spaces between meaning so that absence could exist without dominance.
With stability achieved, the Firstbound shaped Andorea indirectly:
Elarion seeded life and ley-lines
Thalassar carved oceans and tides
Khar’zul ignited the world’s core and mountains
Zaharet crystallized magic and structure
Nyxara wove shadow, mystery, and choice
Morveth established the finality of death
Aurelion set the laws of order, light, and judgment
The Lunarch powers bound fate to celestial cycles
Where their influence overlapped, mortal races arose—adaptable, fragile, and free in ways the Firstbound could never be.
Mortals were never meant to rule.
But they could change.
Unlike the Firstbound, mortals were not bound to concepts. Their choices introduced uncertainty—something even Nullivar could not fully erase.
Seeing this, the Firstbound withdrew, acting only through:
Omens
Champions
Relics
Empires
Thus began the age of faith, conflict, and interpretation.
Some ancient sources whisper that Andorea was not the first world—only the first to endure. Countless prior realities were erased by Nullivar before the Binding succeeded.
Whether this is truth or heresy remains unknown.
Andorea exists because:
The gods chose limitation over annihilation
Nothingness was chained—but not destroyed
Mortals were given the power to matter
The world endures not by divine perfection—but by balance under strain.
And should the Binding ever weaken…
Creation would not end in fire or shadow.
It would simply be forgotten.