Age of Titans¶
"Terrun exited its Elemental Chaos phase and saw several major changes including the creation of Titans, Birth of souls, construction of the Throne of Law." — Cosmology Revision (S001)
The Age of Titans is the era between the arrival of the Einar and the coming of the demons. Having won the Primordial War and imprisoned the Elementals, the Einar shaped the world, made the first living things and the Titan races, and forged the Throne of Law to govern it all. It is also the era in which the Einar first fell out with one another: the Elder God-War ended with the High God Tamariel murdered and his wife Izhtari in sole command of the Throne. The age ended with the Demonic Invasion that opens the Age of Demons.
The sources number this era differently and the ordinal is not ruled: the 2026 cosmology and the 2020 history call it the Second Age, after a Primordial Age; the 2014 compendium calls it the First Age. The 2022 treatise on magic gives it a length of "almost 50,000 years" (S208).
Creation Period¶
When the Einar arrived, "the Material plane was an Elemental battlefield, with the elements in a state of constant conflict" (S386). Their victory in the Primordial War locked away the most powerful and sentient of the elementals, and on the raw elemental energies they had brought to order the Einar built the planes above: the Fae Realm, which became the dominion of the Titans, and the Material Plane itself (S001). The Throne of Law was forged at the end of the Primordial conflict "to govern both Inner and Heavenly Planes", and Tamariel sat on it as "the ultimate ruler of all things" (S386). The treatise on magic puts it more harshly: the Throne was formed "to bind the elementals in eternal servitude and into its jailkeepers, the Titans", each Titan bound to a host of elemental subjects imprisoned on the Elemental Planes (S208).
The Einar then created life. The Titan races were Giants, Dinosaurs, Faeries and the Ventari, together with "many other races which are now extinct" (S386). The treatise's list of the Elder races is longer: Eldritch, Giants, Faeries, Dinosaurs, Ventari, Dwarrow and Cthul "being the most prominent" (S208). The Ventari, "the children of the gods", were the first humanoids, made in the image of the Einar, immune to age and disease and unable to bear children (S372).
Magic in this age was Ethereal and Fae. Ethereal Magic "became a prevalent form of magic during this age and its most prolific practitioners were the Eldritch, who were the chosen of the High God Tamariel"; Fae Magic was practised by Faeries and Titans (S208). The Eldritch had been allies of the Einar in the Primordial War, but their relations "soured after the construction of the Throne of Law, which redirected the energies of Terrun into a new Astral Realm under the control of the Einar", a transfer the Eldritch regarded as theft (S001).
The Dwarrow took the other side. Earth-elemental fae of great intelligence, they had sided with the Elementals in the Primordial War and, after the defeat, "moved deep underground to avoid the influence of the new gods". When the expanding races found them again, the Eldritch Keepers were ordered to bring them under the same law as the other elementals, and the Eldritch-Dwarrow Wars followed, "genocidal wars that raged for 1000s of years" (S529).
The Elder God-War¶
As order settled, the Einar "began to argue amongst themselves about how things ought to be". Tamariel suppressed most of the dissent, and the quarrels were fought out by proxy: the early races "were used as pawns in the struggles of one Einar against another", and many of them went extinct "either through war or neglect" (S386).
The proxy wars grew into a civil war among the Einar themselves. Many Einar died, and the war ended when "Tamariel was murdered by his wife Izhtari in a coup". Izhtari "ushered in a new era for the Elder Gods and consolidated her power over the Throne of Law, which she directly controlled and delegated to those Einar in her favor" (S386). In the 2026 cosmology the same period is described from the Throne's side: "for most of the Second Age, Einar (The Elder Gods) squabbled and disagreed on how to bring order to their new world. The Throne of Law was forged to settle the matter and granted uncontestable dominion to 12 High Gods of the Einar" (S001).
The war is also recorded as the First God War, with Kalar's later rebellion counted as the second; none of the sources read for this page uses that name in its text.
War of the Titans¶
The 2019 overview of the gods outlines Terrun's ancient history as a list of ages and the one event that defines each: "Age of Titans. Event: War of the Titans" (S429). Nothing more is said of it. The same document describes the Titans' later fate: after Rakkar and the Dark Gods split from Kalar, "the Titans became pawns in their conflict. Many were destroyed, taking with them a portion of the planet's life and mass. Some were corrupted by the Dark Gods, and spread massive destruction." The Einar judged them too easily corrupted and "decided to put all of the Titans to sleep in order to keep them hidden", where they remain, their dreams blamed for "many of nature's mysteries" (S429).
Gap
No source describes the War of the Titans itself: who fought, where, or how it ended. It may be the same conflict as the Elder God-War seen from the Titans' side, but nothing says so.
Golden Age of Kahun'Darahl¶
The only account of the Dwarrow's successors in this period is the Dwarrow history (S529). After the fall of the Elder Gods, Khardas, himself a Dwarrow, became the first Dwarrow to hold an Astral Shard, and he and the few surviving Dwarrow "formed the Dwarven race (as non-fae) as the successor and inheritor of the Dwarrow legacy". The early Dwarves, the First Ones, were armed with Dwarrow technology and used it against the Eldritch, but too few Dwarrow remained to teach its secrets, and "as the last of the mortal Dwarrow died and their creations returned to dust, much of knowledge surrounding the dwarrow technology was forever gone". The dwarves "reconstructed much of the Dwarrow technology during the Golden Age of Kahun'Darahl", and lost it again "with the fall of Kahun'Darahl and the loss of the majority of their population and cities during the first demon wars" (S529). The frescoes on a vault door at Kilmarn set the founding of Kahun'Darahl in the same sequence: the creation of the dwarves by Khardas and the Dwarrow, Khardas kneeling before Kalar to become a god, the creation of Rune Magic, the founding of Kahun'Darahl, and Khardas binding the earth primordials (S163).
Gap
No source dates the Golden Age or says how long Kahun'Darahl stood. The Dwarrow history places it before "the first demon wars", which this wiki treats as the Demon Wars of the Age of Demons; the dwarves it concerns were made after the fall of the Elder Gods, so the Golden Age belongs to the very end of this age at the earliest.
Earlier accounts¶
The 2014 compendium (S372, S384) knows no Primordial Age and makes this the First Age, "Formation of the Earth, Initial Evolution of Lifeforms". Its Titan races are Dragons, Giants, Dinosaurs and Faeries, with the Ventari created separately as "Servants of the Einar (super race of guardians to manage everything)". The schism it records is among the Ventari rather than the Einar: "Ventari became fractured as some decided to follow Rakkor, while most remained loyal to Kalas. The titan races became pawns in this struggle, and many titans became extinct, and many Ventari were slain." The 2020 history dropped Dragons from the Titan races, since it has them created later to fight the demons.
The 2019 overview of the gods (S429) places an "Age of Illumination" with its "War of the Gods" before the Age of Titans, which no later source repeats.