Before the Age of Fire was the Age of Ancients. It was a time in which the world was still unformed, colorless and shrouded by fog. The land consisted of gray crags, archtrees and Everlasting Dragons, who were the rulers of the world. Humans and other creatures had yet to make an impression upon the world.
The advent of fire occurred, and with it came heat and cold, life and death, and light and dark. The first flame was born, source of all fire. However, from the dark came humanoid creatures. These creatures found the Lord Souls within the flames and took on the powers they gave. They were:
Gravelord Nito, The First of the Dead, who offered much of his own soul to death itself, granting him the ability to administer the death of all life.
The Witch of Izalith, who became the leader of the flame sorcerers, later the so-called "Witches of Chaos".
Gwyn, Lord of Sunlight, who was to achieve great things in his life.
A fourth unique Lord Soul called the "Dark Soul" was found by the Furtive Pygmy, whose race are the ancestors of the humans. The descendants of the Furtive Pygmy are supposed to bring about the Age of Dark, in which humanity rules the World. A supposed descendant of him is the Chosen Undead.
With their new found power the three Lords challenged the dominion of the Everlasting Dragons over the World. The Lords allied with one of the dragons, Seath the Scaleless, who sought the immortal scales of the dragons and thus betrayed his own kind. A very long and destructive war was begun by the Lords and their amassed armies. Gwyn used his powerful bolts to peel their stone scales, while the Witch of Izalith and her Daughters of Chaos wove great firestorms against them and finally the Gravelord Nito unleashed a miasma of death and disease upon the dragons. The war was won by the Lords and the dragons went nearly extinct. A golden Age of Fire begun as the World rebuilt under the new rule of the now as deities perceived Lords.
