What kind of creatures were the Old Gods?
That was not an easy question to answer. In the oldest Titan records, those deities older than the world itself, with their near omniscience and omnipotence, had given the Old Gods a classification that was rather difficult to understand.
Light-Dark Parasites... That was the name Norgannon had given the Old Gods in the records of Ulduar. In that same stone book, held for tens of thousands of years by the archivist Auriaya, who had fallen into the embrace of chaos, Dick had found more of the Titans' notes on the Old Gods.
These twisted ancient creatures were said to have come from a place called the Shadowlands. The Void Lords who ruled that place had cast them throughout the mortal universe to corrupt planets that harbored Star Spirits but had not yet grown into true Star Spirit Titans. Norgannon had recorded it quite clearly in that book: to true Titans, the Old Gods were very weak creatures. The mental corruption they took such pride in could not shake an adult Titan's mind at all, so they could only prey on these infant Titans.
The reason, it seemed, was that the Titans always thwarted the Void Lords' invasions of the physical universe.
In short, it was a tale of war spanning tens of thousands of years, filled with deception and treachery. The Void Lords had cast millions of Light-Dark Parasites-Old Gods-into the mortal universe. In essence, these creatures were parasites, but the hosts they parasitized were planets!
"Endless mountains heaped from diseased flesh, filled with filthy, chaotic wills. Like twisted vermin born in the most revolting black sludge, they are covered in masses of writhing, churning tentacles, some with a thousand eyes, others with a thousand maws, forever spreading like festering sores. This