Gia was an egg, and from it hatched The First Man, who's name is not spoken, and Rhea, The Mother, who was his wife. Their siblings came also: Ignia, Life Made Fire, Calcula, Life Made Stone, Undina, Life Made Water, and Ventia, Life Made Wind.
Rhea's Firstborn was Noraino. Her second was Santcia. Her third and fourth children were the twins Arithea and Arantos, and her last child was Untos. Rhea was a kind and caring mother, but The First Man was cruel and adulterous.
He went to Calcula, and took her, and by her were born the Dwarves and the Trolls. When they looked upon their mother, they saw only unliving stone. They quarreled about who's birth had killed her, as they quarrel to this day.
He went to Ventia, and took her, and by her were born the Pixties and the Harpies. When the sought their mother, they heard the wind, but so no life. They quarreled about who's birth had killed her, as they quarrel to this day.
He went to Undina, and took her, and by her were born the Merpeople, who have no sibling. They mourned thir mother, as they do to this day.
The First Man and Rhea lived in a great house on the isle of Selnia. When his children came of an age to labor, he made them to work for him. Santcia, who loved to paint and write and make music, he made to work hard in the fields. Arithea, who loved flowers and plants and natural beauty, was made to serve as a housemaid. Arantos, who was meticulous and worked diligently on his histories, was made to tend the gardens. Untos, who loved to work with stone and metal, was made to be his father's clerk and squire.
Then, in a distant and uninhabited land came the Elves, Gia's late children. Confusued and overwhelmed, they were insular, and had little contact with the other races.
Only Noaino, the eldest, escaped his father's service. On the day he came of age, he built a ship, and sailed off to explore the world.
Rhea objected to this treatment of her children, but the anger of the First Man when questioned prevented her from doing anything but tending to them after their day's labor.
Eventually, Rhea learned the Dwarves and the Trolls, and asked the First Man whence they came, but this only angred him. She learned of the Pixties and the Harpies, asked the First Man whence they came, but this only angred him. She learned of the Merpeople, asked the First Man whence they came, but this only angered him. She saw his burns, and asked the First Man whence they came, but this only angred him. Rhea accused the First Man of his infidelity, and this angered him further. In his rage, he killed her.
Noaino, in his travels, had seen the harshness of his father's rule, and had learned of the harsh treatment of his siblings. He felt his mother's death, and knew that the First Man had killed her. His siblings, he knew, would be powerless against their father, so Noaino sailed around Gia, and gathered a great army of every race but the Elves, who would not give heed to one not of their people. A year after his mother's death, he came to the isle of Selnia with a fleet of a thousand ships.
The First Man, however, had heard of his first son's efforts. From clay and the last of Gia's life force, he created the Goblins to oppose Noaino's forces.
Noaino's fleet landed, and fought a hard battle against the First Man's Goblin forces, but prevailed. Noaino found and freed his siblings, and, with the remnants of the forces he gathered, confronted the First Man.
