> [!columns|3 no-t] > >[!abstract|no-i title-center] **[[Up]]** > > > [!example|no-i title-center] **[[Elmanon]]** > > > [!question|no-i title-center] **[[Player Hub]]** > [!warning|no-i title-center] **[[Adventurer's Guild]]** --- > [!quote] Dungeon Master's Guide 2024 p. 356 > "Scholars speak of a [[Primordial]] state, a single reality they call the *First World*, which preceded the [[Material Plane]]. Many of the peoples and monsters that inhabit the worlds on the [[Material Plane]] originated there. After the *First World* was shattered by a great cataclysm-giving birth to the worlds that came in its wake-the progeny of the first [[Elf|Elves]], [[Dwarf|Dwarves]], [[Beholder]]s, and other iconic creatures took root on [[World]] after [[World]], like seeds scattered by a cosmic wind. If the musings of these great sages are true, every world on the [[Material Plane]] is a reflection-or, in some cases, a distortion-of the *First World*."