pre dawn war & dawn war

PRE WAR
- aberrations, aberrations everywhere
- aboleths at the top of the foodchain
- chuuls as their servants

- beholders/beholderkin doing their own thing

- slaads don't exist yet

- gibbering mouthers happen in places where stuff happen Too Much

- protomindflayers are slaves of aboleths
- as are neogi
- also nothics and otyughs and various other eldritch horrors and monstrosities
- kruthiks, lobsterfolk, thri-keen
- if it looks like an insect or a sea critter or an amphibian, it probably exists

- there is no far realm, so instead all the horrorterrors are h e r e

WAR
- something occurred
- like the big bang or smth
- the song of creation was sung and oops now there's insanely powerful things everywhere
- originally one category (primeval), rapidly morphs into two - primordial and supernal.
- primordial and supernal fight, accidentally creating the planes as we know them
- this lasts a lONG ASS TIME
- so long that other new and interesting forms of life start emerging as a direct result of these clashes
- eventually everyone settled down???

dragons: primordial
giants: supernal