[RPG] What was behind the creation of the gods/planes

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While reading about some of the gods and they all have their own mythology as to how they came to be. For example, I understand that Corellon created the elves and how the Drow got started and so forth. What created him though, or got the planes started whichever was earlier.

Is there a common theory behind it like the Big Bang Theory we share? Or does every race have a different story and believe there is the correct one?

Is there a supplement that explains anything on this or am I just thinking to complex behind the pantheon?

Best Answer

There is not a canonical "D&D" answer. The answer differs per campaign world.

I know it's a little weird - the D&D 3 core books don't present themselves as a generic system per se; they hint at a shared cosmology with the gods, certain roles for the races, etc. that makes it seem like there's a larger world there. But it's just a hollow shell, to be filled in either by yourself or by the specific campaign worlds (Forgotten Realms, Greyhawk, Golarion, etc.).

Now, in 3e/3.5e Greyhawk is the default setting (they didn't follow through on that real well but it was stated) so you could look to the Greyhawk answers as the canonical defaults. I don't know that they ever answered the "but where did they all come from" questions, and I was a Greyhawk aficionado for decades. Canonfire! would be the place to research that. If you're looking for Corellon specifically, try this wiki article. Most campaign worlds are deliberately cagy about how exactly the beginning of all things transpired, however, and Greyhawk is especially so.

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