A/n this is told by the Sael'gar, enjoy
At the beginning there were three, the Sky, the Ground, and the Between. The Fade made up the sky, its creatures were Energy. The Ground was the Titans, blue blooded and full of potential. The Between was called the Void, because neither Fade or Titan could see inside.
The Titan's children were born from the stone of its body. Little creatures that lived inside their creator, for they would be destroyed by the Void that lived upon its skin. They were gifted with a special kind of power, a magic similar but different from the energy in the Fade. Isolated from the surface of their creator, they built roads and civilizations underground, networks through the whole of all the Titans.
In the Fade we started out as one; raw Energy. All clustered together, moving, shifting, living as one. Slowly over millennia, sections began to form consciousness, and we isolated our form from the rest of the Fade. After many of us formed, we began to speak to each other. Sharing thoughts, feelings, and testing out our powers. We were the first Spirit. We had no purpose, we just were, like all things in the beginning. Soon, some of us wanted more. They turned their eyes to the Void.
The Void was nothing. Empty as far as anything in Creation knew. All anything could feel was just death, disease, and corruption, before those things even had a name. The creatures that lived there, unlike the Fade's energy, died and consumed each other. Hungry and feasting, unending was their appetites. These things called to the Fade's creatures, whispering promises of the indescribable. Many of the Spirits listened.
Other Spirits began to enter the Void, testing its boundry with their power. At first the Void was unyielding, but eventually, like all things, it gave way. The Spirits hungry for more, dove into the unknown while we few tried to stem the tide of corruption. The Spirits left in the Fade once corrupted broke into pieces and took on Purpose, reflecting the Void and its inhabitants. Some of us went into isolation to protect ourselves from the Void's corruption. The raw energy of the Fade evolving to the change of the Void. Eventually few of us, True Spirits, remained in the Fade, and the ones who entered the Void took on physical form, to retain their power. The first of the Elves were born to these Spirits.
The first of the Elves and their descendants, beseeched their fathers and mothers to destroy the Void for it was twisting their minds and bodies. The physically bound Spirits taking pity on their creations, broke open their forms and used the energy to trap the Void. This destroyed them as they were. The energy returned to the Fade, to form a new; Spirits with Purpose, reflections. Those of us left in the Fade mourned our brethren; Some vowed to help and watch over the Children of the Fade, while the rest of us hid away, seeing the corruption of such creatures.
The Elves took to the lands of the Titans skin, spreading far and wide when the Void was gone. They used the powers given to them by the blood of their Fade ancestors to create large and extravagant cities. The Void now trapped and hidden away; the Fade's energy seeped into the Between and the Elves' powers grew. We watched in a mix of horror and awe as they grew in numbers.
The children of my brethren quickly discovered the blood of the Titans underground and its ability to make them even stronger; they started seeking ways to cultivated it, ripping and tearing into the Titans. The Children of the Stone fought to protect their Stone, cursing and hating the Fade creatures that invaded their home. Again, the Children of the Fade called for the help of the Spirits. Many helped the Children of the Fade, a few would not. A Titan fell, and the Children of the stone retreated deeper underground, and the Children of the Fade cultivated the Blood of the fallen Titan. A few of the Elves rose above the rest, hiding the Spirit's assistance, claiming ultimate power.
Eventually even that was not enough, and the Elves remembering the Spirit's power, sought that as well. Some Spirits lent their power willingly, but eventually, the False Elven Gods trapped the Energy of the Fade and grew stronger and stronger, until none stood against them. By the time the Fade was trapped behind the Veil, only I remained of the True Spirits.