The Four Eternals and the Beginning...

In the era long past, the Four Eternals lived peacefully on their world, until the One Who Made All decided to create more beings, lesser beings, to populate the world. The One Who Made All charged the four Eternals to keep watch over the fragile lives of the new creatures, a task they readily accepted. Starine and Perseterra nourished their bodies and spirits by giving them sunlight, rain, and food from the earth. Azumaron gave them friendly pushes and pulls along tides and currents to carry them to the farthest reaches of the horizon. And Gosoroth saw the mortals to their final resting place when their lives came to an end. Starine favored the long-lived beings with pointed ears, and she taught them her ways, and Perseterra favored the short-lived beings with rounded ears, and did the same. However, these new beings were not only fragile, but also flawed, and corruption overcame them. The beings they protected and grew to love eventually started to destroy each other. The Eternals came to a summit to decide the fate of the mortals. Azumaron of the Sea declared the mortals had to be forced to obey the will of the Eternals, as the tides force their will upon the shore. Perseterra suggested to destroy all the corrupt mortals and return them to the earth to be reshaped into perfection, a task that would take a great many years. Gosoroth suggested one of the Eternals absorb all corruption and move it to a place farther from the reach of mortals, so they had more of a choice between good and evil. Starine saw that Gosoroth’s plan was the wisest, but deciding who would take the corruption was difficult. The God of Death himself decided to take on the heavy burden, and pulled all the darkness into his own soul, warping and twisting his once tranquil mind into wickedness and chaos. The other Eternals chained up their once-brother and buried him deeply below the surface of the earth, hoping the chains that bound would never break…