Shar fell silent for a few seconds before she slowly said, "Their world was actually quite good. It had both a sun and a moon from the beginning, its land was solid, and it had plenty of resources.
"Unfortunately, not long after the Three Primordial Gods were born, disaster struck... Demogorgon and a Star Spirit fought in a nearby universe. They tore through that universe and even shattered a third of the planet Telashir.
"The Elves and Dwarves originally lived in that neighboring universe. They fled to Telashir afterward.
"You were all among the first Gods, so you should know that newly born worlds experience a different flow of time. For tens or even hundreds of thousands of years after the Primordial Gods are born, life should flourish throughout the world.
"That is also when energy is most abundant.
"All worlds remain closed off in their infancy. Even in Toril, no new life appeared until tens of thousands of years after Selûne and I were born.
"If Ao hadn't been so greedy back then, he wouldn't have released such an enormous burst of energy while creating Toril... It attracted so many Savage Gods that Selûne and I struggled to fend them off even together.
"Toril would not have had to divert so much energy to fighting outside enemies, and that burst of energy would not have created the first Primordials.
"Those Primordials should have appeared only after the Gods were born... But too many Primordials without the potential for godhood emerged, consuming far too much of the world's initial vitality.
"That is why most of Toril's later Gods were born from the battles between Selûne and me.
"Heh. Sometimes I can't blame Ao for wanting to bring in Gods from other worlds... How could Gods born amid our battles have