A very, very long time ago before anything walked this land, there were the ones we call Gods. Great entities that held sway over every aspect of our world; from the metal deep beneath the earth, to the sky itself. The Gods were numerous, and as unique and different as the things they held domain over.
One day, the God of Life grew sad; for where other Gods had their domain, she had nothing in particular to call her own. The other Gods saw this, and most felt sorrow for her. "Were it not for she" they said, "We would not have domains of our own. And while life exists in everything, there is nothing she can claim is hers alone. For rocks and trees and wind never truly live."
The Gods convened, to come up with a way to solve this problem and make the God of Life happy again. The meeting went on for many a day, and many a night before they all reached an agreement. They each would give the God of Life a part of their own domains to do with as she wished.
When they told her, the God of Life was overjoyed and deeply touched at the selflessness and generosity of her fellow Gods. And so, to show to them her gratitude she took the parts of the other's domains into herself, filled them with Life and set her children into the world among the domains the other Gods held. These parts would grow and become the first creatures and the spirits that would inhabit the land.
As time passed the Gods watched over these creations together; molding and shaping them in their own images. But, as time went on, the creatures began to grow more and more different from each other and the Gods grew more and more protective of what they deemed as 'theirs'. Soon, problems began to arise among them. For you see, when the God of Life had released her Life into the world, those parts had drawn in aspects from all around them and no longer truly belonged to only one God.
The Gods began to argue over which creature belonged in which domain, and which God had the right to decide its fate. The fighting grew fierce, and in their anger and hate the Gods began to warp some of the creatures into hateful beings to strike out at the other Gods and the creatures they called their own. These would be the first of the many cruel beasts that inhabit our world. Some Gods banded together to bring forth powerful chaotic beings; The first of the monstrous races with their unique strengths and abilities and their forms malleable. Others were born of order and would go on to become the first humans, elves, dwarves and halflings; with their prowess and skill in any and all tasks they took upon themselves.
There were many clashes, and the fighting went on without end. The God of Life watched on in horror and sorrow as the beautiful things she had created and breathed life into, the gifts she had given to those who had been so kind, were used to bring pain and violence upon each other. Weapons for the very Gods that had once done her a great kindness.
Overcome by her sorrow, The God of Life wept; her tears spilling to the world below. And as they did, they carried with them the sadness and pain that had grown within her; at the injustice born down upon her children. They stained the earth were they fell, black and fel. A great Darkness grew within these tears, and Death was unleashed upon the once peaceful world.
Beings began to fall in battle, the Life within them torn away by the shadow of Death. Those fallen would then rise again as the undead, turning on friend and foe alike; filled as they were with the sorrow and anger that was contained within the God of Life's tears.
As the shadow of Death spread ever quicker, spurred on by the fighting, the Gods began to realise what they had done. They grew horrified at themselves, and could only watch as Death began to destroy all they had created, and consumed their domains bit by bit.
The beings saw what was happening, the threat that had been brought down upon them and the world they lived in, and they rose together to fight it. The God of Life stood behind them, imparting more of her Life upon those who were strong enough to wield it.
The Gods, whom had started this war with their fighting and bickering were ashamed to see the beings, the ones the God of Life had created out of kindness and they had shaped to fight each other, standing together against Death and pushing it back. They too imparted their power upon those strong and skilled enough to wield it, giving the monsters strange, new powerful forms and abilities and the non-monsters vast skills and knowledge that would aid in the task of pushing back Death.
Under the combined might of the beings and the Gods, Death was forced back and the God of Life, who had created it with her tears of sorrow, was able to seal it away.
Alas, it was already too late. Even the God of Life could not remove its taint completely from the world; for it too was now part of Life, and to remove Death would be to remove the Life from her children. Life was no longer eternal for the creatures the Gods had created, and Death magic, necromancy, had seeped into the magic of the world; unable to be removed.
The beings, now faced with mortality grew scared and angry. Who were the Gods to have treated them so? Turned them into their puppets of war for their own petty squabbles, and brought Death down upon them.
The God of Life saw this, and felt pain for her children whom she had brought into life through her own power. She went to the Gods, and told them that for their transgressions and for corrupting that which she had created, they would all watch over the beings for eternity; There would be no more bickering over which domain they belonged too, for they now all belonged to Life's domain and they were no longer to be shaped and molded as the God's desired.
Instead, it would be done accordance to the desires of the beings themselves; granted their deserved and desired power when they grew strong enough to wield it. From this, the beasts and monstrous races gained the power of Evolution, and were able to Rank Up as their power grew. The non-monster races, born of order unlike the monsters, were given the power of Jobs; to better utilise their many varied and powerful Skills and Abilities.
It was now the God's task to watch over their creations, their children, and guide them along their paths. And should a being show that they are a truly great example of their kind and obtain the strength necessary, they were to be granted immortality once more and rise to join the Gods as a Demi-God; as reward for the struggles they had endured and as repayment for the transgressions of the Gods so very long ago.