Deep History[]
The multiverse was swirling chaos. Forms coalesced, creating the planes and the first powers.
Two of the powers championing the forces Law were the Twin Serpents: Jazirian, a winged and feathered serpent dedicated to Good, and Ahriman, a scaled serpent dedicated to evil. The ring formed by two biting each others' tails demarcated a new plane called the Outlands, and other planes fell in around it, forming the Great Ring of the Outer Planes. This action also enshrined the Unity of Rings as a fundamental multiversal law.[1]
In honor of the triple aspects of Law, Good, and Evil, the Serpents established the Rule of Three. The Serpents attempted to define a center for the multiverse. Despite the advantage of the Outlands, Jazirian pushed for Mount Celestia, while Ahriman pushed for the inverted mountain of Baator.
The two tore themselves apart in their disagreement, with both fleeing to their respective preferred planes. Jazirian bled from her tail, the tip torn off. Wherever drops landed, a couatl was born. Wingless Ahriman fell to the deepest pit of Baator, and wherever he bled, a devil arose. The lack of a defined center paradoxically gave rise to the third multiversal law, the Center of All.
Weakened in their struggle, other powers usurped them, founding pantheons and spreading their influence across the planes.[2]
Ahriman rebranded himself as Asmodeus, lord of Nessus, a near-power at best, although he secretly remained a Greater Power.[3]
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- Gifad arrives in the ancient past, and works his way through the planes learning as much magic as he can, dedicated to overthrowing the Lady of Pain. He arrives in Sigil, and works a vast enchantment into the structure of Ward of Masks -- what will one day be called the Clerk's Ward. As he is about to complete his spell to take control of the city, the Lady appears, trapping him in a Labyrinth Stone, and telling him, None but you may unlock this jewel, and then only from without. Thus you are snared, till eons hence. The gem is then cast into the Lower Planes.[4]
10,000 BFHR[]
- Around this time, a mage named Shekelor leaves Sigil in search of the Labyrinth Stone. His journey takes him through Pandemonium], but ends with him burning from within in front of the City Courts. This may be before the Lady knew how to create a Maze.[5][6][7]
3373 BFHR[]
- After discovering one of her own dabus has begun worshipping Aoskar, the god of portals, the Lady of Pain kills the god and destroys his temple. Four portals around the city, perhaps tied to Aoskar in some way, vanish and will not return for 500 years.[8]
2873 BFHR[]
- Four portals around Sigil appear, and vanish again two months later. The dwarf Fargullen figures out the entrance to the Second Door and vanishes within. The city's sage go wild trying to figure out the secret to the doors[8], including the ogre mage Estavan[9]
2373 BFHR[]
- Four portals around Sigil appear, and vanish again two months later. The dwarf Fargullen returns from beyond the Second Door, spouting prophecies related to Aoskar, the Lady, and the Doors.[8]
1873 BFHR[]
1398 BFHR[]
- Around this time on the world of Aebrynis, the gods sacrificed themselves at the Battle of Mount Deismaar to destroy their evil brother, Azrai. However, they passed their powers on to their greatest champions, who became the new generation of gods.[10]
1373 BFHR[]
References[]
- ↑ D&D: Guide to Hell, p. 2
- ↑ D&D: Guide to Hell, p. 3
- ↑ D&D: Guide to Hell, p. 48
- ↑ Planescape: Faction War, p. 112-113
- ↑ Planescape: In the Cage: A Guide to Sigil, p. 73
- ↑ Planescape: Uncaged: Faces of Sigil, p. 63
- ↑ Planescape: Faction War, p. 34
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 Planescape: Doors to the Unknown, p. 4
- ↑ Planescape: Doors to the Unknown, p. 140
- ↑ Planescape: On Hallowed Ground, p. 160-162
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