Long Before the Creation of the Universe
"Before there was time, before there was anything, there was nothing. And before there was nothing, there were monsters."
-The Lich, one of those Monsters.
A swarm of beasts, teeth, tentacles, all living as an extension of one, the first, writhing on his back. His name was Azathoth, the blind idiot god, but do not let the name deceive was, by mortal standards, a misleading name. Azathoth was not stupid, he was oblivious, for as he slept the world was born around him. A birth by sleep for reality was his dream. He had no cemented form for all saw him differently and his form always changed as if to reflect the vision of the observer. What didn't change was what he was. He was a god and a Black Hole, now residing in what Eons later would come to be called Sagittarius A in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. All this happened while he slept, yet at the time of his birth he was awake, conscious, intelligent, and he was not alone.
The darkness that was the void, the abyss, the Empty,Ginnungagap, all names for the dark emptiness, came to be ruled by an entity. He would come to be called the Shadow. Like Azathoth, the Shadow had no physical form. Other beings appeared. Beings of evil. It would be untold ages before they were given names: the Lich, GOLB, Orgalog and Cthulhu among others. The single cell organisms in the Primordial Soup of the Universe, born into darkness and there to witness when the universe shifted and the conditions became right for life. When two floating orbs: The frozen world of Nifelheim and the burning world of Muspelhein came into existence separated by the void.
-Oliver Haddo, On the Descent of the Gods,1941