Primordials

In the beginning, the Primordials shaped Creation out of the Wyld and ruled with whim and unknown purpose. They created the gods, from the least spirits to the Unconquered Sun, Luna, and the Five Maidens, to do the work of managing Creation while they played the unfathomable Games of Divinity. Eventually the greatest of the gods grew tired of their labor and desired possession of the Games of Divinity and revolted against their whimsical and cruel overlords. However, they were bound by their nature against direct revolt, and so they sought help. Aided by two of the Primordials, Gaia, who in some sense WAS Creation, and Autochthon, whose aspect was Order, they created the various forms of Exalted, the Solar Exalted, the Sidereal Exalted, and the Lunar Exalted. They were joined by the creations of Gaia's five children, the Elemental Dragons, who were referred two as the Terrestral Exalted or Dragon-blooded. After a long-fought war, the Primordials and their followers were killed or surrendered. The dead Primordials became the Neverborn, or Malfeans, unable to truly die while Creation existed. Those still alive were exiled in a prison made of their own bodies and became the Yozi, and their remaining minions became the first demons. The toll of the war was high, however. The Primordials had ravaged and changed Creation in their struggle and had destroyed the Elemental Dragons. In addition, they laid their Great Curse upon those who had defeated them, twisting their own greater-than-mortal natures against them.