- In The Beginning -
The Big Bang was imminent; the laws of physics were breaking down and the lifespan of the current universe was coming to its end. Soon everything would be destroyed and reborn at the expense of all current intelligent life within this universe. Some of the beings within did not want this to happen.
One such race were the Adrifell. The Adrifell took to the science of Universal Engineering and dedicated their entire culture and civilization towards the end goal of creating a brand new Universe in which they would live; one free of the problems and corruption of the natural one they currently resided within.
The Adrifell created a Hadron Collider, the likes of which had never been seen before; it was so large that it stretched around the entire circumference of their Stapledon-Sphere, known as the Archetyme. The Adrifell would eventually run experiments on this Hadron Collider. Thier eventual purpose was to create a Higgs Boson type particle, however, they did not want to replicate the events that created their own universe but create a variation of the event that would lead to the creation of a universe that would be perfectly suited to their needs.
After centuries of experimentation and hard research, the Adrifell finalised plans to create an event in the Collider that would generate a new type of particle - the Ether Particle. The Ether Particle would generate a new type of Universe, a variety of other changes from the old and free of expansion and gravity. This "Etherverse" would be a controlled, secure and stable place to create a realm of learning, peace and creativity.
Things, however, don't always go according to plan. While the creation of the Etherverse was successful, the Adrifell had not anticipated the unforseen laws of creation that would occur - the creation of new lifeforms in the Ether. Though the Adrifell Ether-empire was alone for millions of years, new life took root and new civilizations began to slowly appear in the hidden recesses of the Ether. The first of these were named by the Adrifell as The First Evolved; a race that revolved around the Ultimate Element.
The First Evolved called themselves the Karuthrax. They were a cruel race of overwhelmingly powerful amourphous organic tanks with limited capability to shape-shift. In secrecy, they had built their numbers up and eventually, in the period known as the Falling Century, made war with the Adrifell, almost entirely destroying them. The Adrifell, however, were often underestimated and near the end of the Falling Century, both factions were almost extinct. The Adrifell became all but forgotten as the newer Elements grew and created civilizations while the Karuthrax would return to their birthworlds and shroud them with advanced cloaking technology.
With both races vanishing slowly from the Ether and the rise of the new Elemental races, the second age would begin and great and advanced civilizations such as the Iaethlein, Tolathians and Cascadians would take the lead in protecting the Ether from the more dangerous species like the scourges that are the Jequerita, the zealous Luuran and the cruel Axon Synapse.