Almor

Also known as the God of Everything.

Almor is the only known elder god, the creator of the universe and everything in it, including the other gods. Almor is genderless, without personality, and impossible to communicate with. It's only goal is to create endlessly without rest or purpose. Almor's creations have no rhyme or reason to them, it simply brings things into existence seemingly at random.

The creation of the universe was itself an accident, likely the result of an unknown number of failed universes that Almor attempted to make before it. Even the natural laws that govern all life, magic and the paragon system included, are thought to be the end result of Almor creating numerous conflicting systems until one stabilized. The gods and all races of life in existence are simply the ones that by sheer chance were created with the tools necessary to live. Numerous failed attempts, such as creatures made without the ability to breath or gods unable to use their own powers without imploding, are known to have existed but perished almost instantly after coming into existence.

Because there are many possible universes that would've collapsed on themselves because of inherent contradictions in their natural laws, it's difficult to determine just how many realities Almor has attempted to create before the current one. Even the gods themselves have no knowledge of the previous universes or how successful they might've been. It's possible that many of them were stable long enough to form their own gods and different races of life before eventually falling apart.

Almor is currently imprisoned inside the moon Ebony under a barrier maintained by the four World Chains. After it had created enough gods with the capability to reason for themselves, they in turn decided that their creator was too dangerous to leave alone. They agreed that it was likely Almor would destroy all life in the universe if left unchecked, either through remaking all of reality on a whim or something nonsensical such as converting all matter into energy. Therefore they pooled their power together to imprison Almor and erected a barrier that would power itself via the four World Chains. The chains feed off the energy that drives the natural cycles on each world to maintain a dynamic barrier that would thwart any of Almor's attempts to escape.

Very few mortals know of Almor or its true nature. However, many of the tales passed down through the ages are not far off from the truth save for a few details. Many tell of the gods' battle against a great demon no single one of them could defeat alone. Others tell of a monster that threatened to swallow the whole universe. Still others paint the black moon of Ebony as a cursed place, though rarely elaborate why. Regardless, the grains of truth spread across the legends of the world mean that Almor's influence is still felt whether most people know it or not.