Lords
The Lords were the most mighty beings in existence for they were both manifestations of natural forces and of the mind. They bore the attributes of the element or aspect they represented merely because the sentient life at the time imagined them to be so. Similar to the Grand Spirits, the Lords possessed a great quantity of spiritual fragments, but they also had a corporeal form like those living. However, in comparison, a mere mortal's flesh would be seen as hollow to their overflowing vessels. Also unlike the Grand Spirits, whose actions were preordained and set to their given task, the Lords were free to choose their own and could stray from their inherent realm. A Lord's power could be boundless or infinitesimal, for their power was directly stemmed from their belief. There were countless Lords since they could be born by a mere thought, but many were never known or named. They were weakened to the verge of losing their carnality, becoming both invisible and intangible. In this state and all, they were able to communicate directly into others' minds and would use this ability to inspire or poison a mortal's thoughts in order to obtain a name.
Primal
Over the ages, the faces of the Lords changed with everything else, being replaced with new Lords altogether. During the Era of Turmoil, it was the Primal Lords whom succeeded the Grand Spirits. Towering behemoths that took on a mangled and twisted form unlike all those to come, their kind clashed incessantly. There was nothing gained by the wars and nothing lost, to the Primals' views at least as endless mortals were caught in the way. The battles were waged simply because it was their nature to lash out violently, as governed their parent elements and the lower life at the time. As with most things that were the first to come, there was no true way to destroy the Primals since they were the truest thing to a personification of nature, but a solution was found by those that followed.
Noble
As life grew, so did their minds. After ages of development, they began to see more than thundering brutish forces. Elegance and peace became known to them as well as hope. It was from these that a new order, the Noble Lords, arose. The Nobles carried a kinder shape than the Primals that were relatively consistent to one another, vaguely anthropoid. Different from the savages that came before them, the new order had sharp and refined intellect, which they used to do things other than war, although that was not beneath them. Despite being benevolent, both pride and greed were some of their vices. They used their powers to change many things, generally for their favor. It was in this that they came to make the First Race, a conscious life capable of exalting them as supreme beings. They also instigated the rebirthing of the Orbs, for whenever one of their attempts failed or backlashed, as when they made the First Race. The rebirthing involved the swallowing of all life into the earth, thus allowing them to start anew. In doing so, they also removed those who had initially feared and unintentionally created the Primals, greatly depleting their strength. Seeing an opportunity to remove their only competition and interference to future plans, the Nobles took action.
Banishment
The Primal Lords could not be destroyed for they were the embodiment of all things in nature, but, as Creation had shown them, there were always other means. The Noble Lords did battle with the Primals and were successful in subduing them since their rivals had experienced a recent decline in faith. Their foes were dealt with in numerous ways. Forging masterful chains and bondage, some were cast into deep recesses of their Orb, and others were shackled to the highest peaks. The most powerful, however, had to have their very essence extracted from their form, reducing them to lifeless stone, and broken into hundreds of pieces that were sealed in the blood of the living and hoped to never reunite.
Overlord
The Lords numbered many, but an extolled few were crowned as Lords of Lords, the Overlords. The most ancient and powerful of the Lords, they were to their brethren what the Lords were to the mortals. Where a simpler Lord could have risen and fell in power throughout the span of a generation, the Overlords' reigned spanned ages, being the ones who actually controlled their coming and passing.
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