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==Foundations of Reality - The Great Elementals==

The four Great Elementals - Air, Earth, Fire and Water - hang in the sky, immense orbs that can be seen from the world.  They lie dormant, unmoving, holding fixed positions regardless of orbits or other heavenly bodies.  They are vast, slumbering giants who have retreated from the world they created to ponder the conundrum of life.

In the modern day, the Great Elementals are paid respect and hold an important place in understanding the origins of the world, but they are not truly worshipped.  How could they be?  These four creators forged the world and the planets and the sun, and made the elementals and primal spirits that tend to existence, but they could never manage to make True Life.  Frustrated, they fell into slumber and from their dreams came forth the Elder Gods.  It is commonly held that the Great Elementals hear no prayers, see nothing, are aware of nothing.  When - or if - they will ever awaken is unknown, as is what they will think of the current state of the world.

A few cults do hold that the Elementals are, in fact, watching the world and aware of events; these rare groups offer worship and prayer to the god-worlds, but can offer no evidence to outsiders that their claims are true.  No spirit or elemental can offer any insight into the state of the Great Elementals, and the Elder Gods apparently received no direction from their dreamer-parents after their conception.

There is one specific area where the nature of the Great Elementals does still hold a position of significance - science and scholarship.  The Elementals represent the underlying fundamentals of reality itself, and there are great academic debates about what each 'element' truly means.  Better understanding the nature of the four Elementals might lead to great leaps forward in science and knowledge.

In theory, were one able to cross the intervening void, one could alight upon a Great Elemental and walk upon its surface.  To achieve such a journey would be a task of incredible scope, and not even the Elder Gods achieved such a thing.