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Life begins to evolve on Eden.
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When life starts to evolve on Eden, the Older Gods are born from the planet's natural magical energies.
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The first supercontinent on Eden is fully formed, named Vaalbara.
Most of the Older Gods start devouring each other and devolve into demons. A Drurllon Elemental known as Gaea has been visiting to watch the formation of the planet, and to learn more about the Element of Nature. She avoids being consumed and summons the planet's sentient biosphere, and mates with it, creating Shamash, the sun god. Shamash sets about destroying the Older Gods, but in so doing he too becomes corrupted and is transformed into the Eater of Gods.
The Rogue Monitor arises on a moon of the planet Dragsnao in the Counter-Matter universe. Simultaneously, the Overseer arises on a moon of Oansgard in the positive matter universe.
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Some of the Older Gods die bravely with cunning, able to revert to their uncorrupted forms. The noble ones perish, locked in battle with the unleashed evil of the Eater of Gods. For them, this was the Last of Days. Out into the cosmos their battle moved, raging so intensely that whole star systems would perish. Then, from the blinding death-flash of their destruction, two molten bodies began to form from the shattered megaplanet as well as the carcasses of the Older Gods. One world, suffused with the cunning and evil of these primordial beings, became Holokaust, forever spinning in the shadow of Amaranthine, which was bathed in the bravery and nobility of their forerunners.
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Gaea, who had stayed behind on Eden, continued to watch the evolution of life on this new planet. Under many different guises, she would become the mother goddess of Eden's second generation of gods. The Eater of Gods then released the energies he had absorbed, returning to his form of Shamash; these energies would later lead to the birth of the later generation of demons, such as Entropy.
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As the creation process was completed and Eden was fully-formed and life began to spread across its single, giant continent, Gaea has completed her self-education and journeys to Oansgard to prove to the Elemental Council on Oansgard that she is an Adept and then shows her true power by bringing a dead planet back to life, where it is believed by the Council, that she had also given it sentience. In reality, the planet she had deliberately chosen, was the dead husk of Mogego.
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A century after reviving the dead planet, Gaea and Mogego merge into one being; becoming a living, thinking, feeling and self-sustaining world, shaped in the features of Gaea's face, the living planet was renamed Mogaeago. It is later stated that she merged with Mogego in order to curb his desire for destruction, and to assure him that he was no longer alone.
Oansgardian's females abandon their mates in dissatisfaction, eventually renaming themselves the Zamardians. While there still existed an intermingling, the two kept themselves separate, sharing custody of children and seeing each other occasionally.
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On Eden, photosynthetic organisms produce oxygen in the atmosphere, killing off most anaerobic life in the Oxygen Catastrophe.
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The Archean Eon ends.
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The Siderian Period of the Proterozoic Eon begins.
The Siderian Period ends.
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The Rhyacian Period begins.
Eden's atmosphere gradually becomes oxygen-rich due to biological processes, as the first eukaryotes begin to thrive. Anaerobic bacteria produced the oxygen, and their own doom. Eukaryotic life involves cells with nuclei, an innovation, and it reproduces sexually.
The tectonic shifts reform the supercontinent in a different configuration. This new supercontinent was named Rhodinia.
The Zamardians begin to mate with another race—natives of the planet REDACTED.
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The Oansgardians vow never to harm the Zamardians' newly chosen mates.
Fungal life appears on Eden.
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Late Proterozoic period.
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Some fungi (Prototaxites stellaviatori) and "the Mist," its metaphysical realm, may be of extraterrestrial origin.
The Ediacaran fauna evolves in Eden's oceans, the planet's first complex multicellular life.
The "Cambrian Explosion" spreads new varieties of life across Eden, as Eden's axis shifts by 90° and the second supercontinent, Rhodinia, splits and shifts, as a series of major Ice Ages spread across the planet.
The Cambrian was the first period of the Paleozoic Era.
The Green, traveling through time (see 1995), plants Yggdrasil the World-Tree, helping to establish "the Green" and the Parliament of the Ents on Eden.
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This marks the beginning of the Silurian Period, the origin of the earliest land plants. This still allows for the existence of various dinosaur-based (and earlier) elementals. Other elemental "parliaments" (of Flames, Water, Air, and Stones) also develop, independently.
The first amphibians leave Eden's oceans for land. Over the next 50 million years, they evolve into the first reptiles. Occurs during the Pennsylvanian (Upper Carboniferous) period.
Pangea, the third supercontinent, is fully formed.
An unprecedented global extinction sweeps Eden.
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End of the Permian Period.
The dinosaurs rise to dominance, as Eden's first mammals evolve in their shadow.
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The Triassic and Jurassic periods, marking the beginning of the Mesozoic Era.
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Civilization on Ma'aleca'andra, a colony of Annunaki, reaches a scientific peak, and expands to colonize the solar system. These Annunaki, now calling themselves Ma'aleca'andrians create an outpost on Eden, on the uninhabited continent they named Kyrelos. This occurs when dinosaurs existed and Kyrelos was warm and fertile (and if not "tropical" as stated, in this period it had at least a "warm temperate" climate).
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They also build artificial environments in the atmosphere of Ninurta, and eventually populate them with clones. The cloned red and white Ninurtians are the forebears of REDACTED.
Eden's dinosaurs fall prey to a cosmic disaster.
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Mammals ascend to dominance.
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End of the Cretaceous period and the Mesozoic Era, beginning of the Cenozoic Era.
The Celestial Titans began to experiment with the evolution of many intelligent beings across the universe, influencing races such as the Khreeunds and the Drurllons.
The present Maha Yuga begins its first phase (the Satya Yuga). Date according to Hindu belief [see 4.324 Billion BCE].
The earliest hominids (Australopithecines) appear in the area that will one day be called Africa, possible ancestors of modern humanity.
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Mid-Pliocene Epoch of the Tertiary Period of the Cenozoic Era.
The Tretā Yuga begins (the "Age of Knowledge", second phase of the Maha Yuga), and existence grows more chaotic. Date according to Hindu belief [see 4.324 Billion BCE]. Sources surmise that magical energies began to flow more freely during this period [see 1,000,000 BCE].
The "Homo" (Human) genus diverges from the "australopithecines" genus on the African Continent.
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Homo Habilis evolves on the African Continent, first of the genus Homo and a direct ancestor of modern humans.
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The White Ninurtians genetically manipulate the human genetic code; stimulating their evolutionary progress.
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Still mid-Pliocene epoch.
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White Ninurtian colonists establish the settlement known as Praclarush Taonas in the region of Kyrelos.
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The citadel is soon abandoned.
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Homo Habilis, the first proto-human to use tools, thrived until circa 1.5 Million BCE.
As the Ice Ages return, Homo Erectus develops, the first human ancestor to use shelter, the first to venture beyond Africa, and (eventually) the first to tame fire. (One female specimen becomes "Bog Okkara", an early plant elemental.)
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Pleistocene epoch of the Quaternary period.
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Homo Erectus prospers until circa 500,000 BCE, inaugurating the Paleolithic Age (Early Stone Age) and gradually evolving into early Homo Sapiens.
On Eden, proto-humans are known as the Lessermen, a race which ruled the Homo Sapiens.
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The Celestial Titans arrive on Eden and begin to experiment on humanity. The experiments create two new races, offshoots of Homo Sapiens, called The Deviations and the Celestial Children.
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The Celestial Titans also used Eden as a womb to incubate a new Celestial Titan. They gave some humans the ability to develop super powers (this would make their descendants more susceptible to the genetic mutation the Atomic Particle Wave would create later) that would manifest themselves around the time that the new Celestial Titan was supposed to be born. They did this with the intent of these superhumans protecting Eden, and thereby the developing Celestial Titan, from damage in order to ensure the birth.
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These new races rebelled against the Lessermen, overthrowing them in a revolt. Kullking, the ruler of the Lessermen, locked himself in a state of suspended animation.
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The being named Set, one day god of Kemet, also was on Eden, and created a new race, the Snake-People, to be his agents on Eden. They approached the Celestial Titans, but were rejected for experimentation. The Snake-People then became jealous of the humans and vowed themselves enemies of the human race.
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After discovering the existence of the Khreeund and the vegetated race that lived on Mogaeago (called the Entati), the Drurllons gave each race a test to see which of them were worthy of sharing their technology: whichever race created the better achievement would get it. The Khreeund created a city on the dark side of Luna, the moon of Eden, that contained an Eden-like atmosphere and gravity. The Entati created an entire new ecosystem. The Khreeund lost the contest, so they killed the Drurllon envoys and stole their technology. They abandoned the city on Luna.