The Nine Realms of the First God

"The God who woke alone could not bear silence. He split Himself into places, and each place birthed children."

Purpose: The First God’s “anchor,” a place of balance where permanence and change could coexist.
Nature: Mountains, seas, skies — a blend of every other realm’s echoes. Where time holds weight but does not crush.
Children: Humans. The “balancers” of existence. They inherit no divine gift naturally, but this very lack makes them dangerously adaptive. Every other race envies humanity’s potential to grow beyond their limits.
Legacy: All realms bleed into the Mortal Realm — hence why humans see glimpses of fae, demons, and beasts. This realm is the nexus.

Purpose: The God’s dream of love, beauty, and companionship.
Nature: Eternal forests, golden plains, rivers that sing, and trees whose roots touch the stars.
Children: Elves & Fae. Born of longing and beauty. Their lives are tied to growth cycles: they bloom, flourish, and fade like the trees. Fae spirits are splinters of the realm itself, acting as messengers and mischief.
Legacy: Elves carry the memory of the First God’s loneliness; they crave eternity but are cursed with decay.

Purpose: The God’s desire for struggle and craft, His boredom hammered into endurance.
Nature: Endless mountain ranges, volcanic valleys, rivers of magma, caverns that resound with the heartbeat of the world.
Children:
- Orcs. Born of fire and war, their bodies forged to endure. They embody passion, rage, and survival.
- Dwarves. Born of stone and craft, masters of permanence. They build not for now, but for forever.
Legacy: Orcs and dwarves are “siblings,” two halves of one intent: strength and creation. Their rivalry is the rivalry of stone and flame.

Purpose: The God’s fear of Himself, His darkness spilled into form.
Nature: Labyrinthine wastelands of black stone, rivers of ichor, skies choked in smoke. Every shape is a lie; nothing here is what it seems.
Children: Demons. Not one race, but infinite shapes — each born from a twisted echo of mortal desire. Demons embody contradictions: beauty that conceals rot, power that crumbles, hunger without end.
Legacy: Demons despise mortals most of all, for mortals remind them that their realm was never meant for love — only rejection.

Purpose: The God’s fascination with play, freedom, and power without morality.
Nature: Expansive skies, endless savannas, seas filled with leviathans, mountains roosted with dragons. Here, animals speak, plot, and rule kingdoms.
Children:
- Talking Beasts. Foxes, lions, wolves, birds, and others who walk upright or rule as wild monarchs.
- Dragons. The eldest of Theria, born as avatars of instinct given god-blood. Each dragon is a “will” made flesh: Greed, Storm, Hunger, Time.
Legacy: Theria is the realm of instinct. Beasts and dragons act by nature, unburdened by guilt — making them pure and terrifying.

Purpose: The God’s longing for inspiration.
Nature: Infinite sky, no land, only drifting lights and wind carrying whispers.
Children: Not a race, but spirits and muses. Born from thought itself, they gift mortals dreams, songs, and madness.
Legacy: Every prophecy, every inspiration, every hallucination touches Aetherion first.

Purpose: To see Himself more clearly.
Nature: Endless halls of mirrors, reflecting not what is but what could be.
Children: None directly. But seers, oracles, and fate-weavers draw their sight here. Some say veiled horrors — failed reflections — slither in the glass.
Legacy: The foundation of prophecy and cursed destiny. Excalibur itself is said to have been cut from this realm.

Purpose: The God’s voice echoing into forever.
Nature: A world where sound is landscape: rivers of melody, mountains that hum, storms of rhythm.
Children: None in flesh, but language and spellcraft were born here. The muses are fragments of Kythera.
Legacy: Every incantation is a stolen fragment of Kythera’s song.

Purpose: His sigh, His despair that none of His creations answered Him back.
Nature: White stone plains stretching into nothingness. Sound dies here, and even thought grows faint.
Children: None directly. But from its cracks crawled the Watchers, primordial wardens made not of love or fear, but duty.
Legacy: The Watchers are silence made flesh — beings who exist to ensure the Veil holds, no matter the cost.

The Four Livable Realms

The Mortal Realm (Humans) – balance, survival, adaptability.
Aelora (Elves/Fae) – beauty, cycles, longing for eternity.
Khazrak (Orcs & Dwarves) – struggle, endurance, craft, rage.
Nyxora (Demons) – shadow, hunger, contradiction.
Theria (Beasts & Dragons) – instinct, play, primal kingdoms. (Livable to some, but alien to humans).