Prime Deities

The Prime Deities are the Creator deities who chose to stay and help the people of Exandria fight back against the Primordials during the Founding. The Raven Queen is also typically grouped with the Prime Deities, despite not being a Creator.

The Founding
The gods who brought life to Exandria are called Creators. When the Primordials came to retake the world during the Founding, the gods disagreed on their course of action. Those who would later become the Betrayer Gods wished to let the world fall into chaos and destruction so that they could begin anew elsewhere. The Prime Deities chose to remain and to help their creations survive the onslaught and defeat the Primordials. They taught the people of Exandria arcane magic, so that they could defend themselves and build anew without direct aid from the gods. The people succeeded, destroying the Primordials and banishing the Betrayer Gods to planar prisons.

At some point during the Founding, there were two deities, whose trace and names were lost during this time. This disappearance had certain relation to formation of Ruidus.

The Age of Arcanum
The prevalence of arcane magic gave rise to the Age of Arcanum. It was during this time that a mortal practitioner of this magic developed the rites of ascension, challenged the God of Death, and took his place as The Raven Queen. This act inspired others, and the Archmage Vespin Chloras freed the imprisoned Betrayer Gods. They launched an attack on Vasselheim, and the Prime Deities joined with the people of Vasselheim to defend it. The city survived, although with significant damage, but this fight began the long and terrible war that would be known as the Calamity.

The Calamity and the Divergence
The was a war between the Prime Deities and Betrayer Gods, and many of their mortal creations perished in battle. The world they had once created together was permanently scarred, and only a third of the population survived. The Betrayer Gods were banished again to their realms, but the Prime Deities reluctantly chose to leave as well, believing their involvement in Vasselheim had been a precipitating factor and that their continued presence could cause war again in the future. They implemented the Divine Gate, which prevented all of the gods, Betrayer and Prime alike, from physically entering the Material Plane. This event would later be known as The Divergence.

Deities
All of the Prime Deities are good- or neutral-aligned.

Trivia
The Pantheon of Exandria is taken from the Dawn War Deities, with the addition of Sarenrae, a Pathfinder deity. The Prime Deities are the good and neutral-aligned deities from this pantheon.