In the beginning, their was only the Wyld. Then the Primordials came, and worked their wondrous Creation on the Wyld. But then, the servitors the Primordials created to administer everything rebelled, sending the Exalted to kill and imprison their masters. And thus began the First Age, when the last Primordials were imprisoned within Malfeas. The Age of Wonders, The Age of Dreams.
Or at least, that's what I've been taught. It doesn't really matter anyway. The Zeroth Age of Primordial Rulership is gone. Still, sometimes I wonder.
What really happened?
Sutra of the Troubled Maiden
There once was a maiden...
Who was troubled by things
she could not grasp.
She searched far and wide for answers
To questions she did not know.
And when she died, having learned nothing
She said, "The answer lies within the question."