Eternal and limitless, the power of creation enspirited the cosmos.

  Across infinite realms the energy flowed everlasting, imbuing all worlds with form and essence – yet only a few with boundless magic.

  Of one such world, far beneath the surface, an ancient power of destruction was awakening.

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  For eons, the entity had slumbered, engulfed by primordial chaos and imprisoned by powerful seals of warding within the heart of the earth.

  For ages untold, forsaken and forgotten, in deathless sleep it waited – as empires emerged and flourished across the sunlit realms, only to crumble back into dust – as the world passed into an age of cataclysm, and the skies raged with tempests of fire and the seas boiled black – and then with colossal earthquakes reverberating through the abyssal depths, to shift the foundation of the earth itself and finally, to fracture the warding seals of divine might.

  And from the seals thus weakened, the primordial energy began to seep through …

  Slowly, the entity stirred and gathered its sentience among the oblivion, as an ember smouldering in the deep.

  And slowly, across the centuries, it was breaking free.