The elder gods made basic life forms on the planes they created (plants, whatever equivalents to them Infernus has, etc...). During their creation, they were confronted by the Dragonkin, whose home they had recently 'made uninhabitable.' The meeting did not go well, and the Dragonkin were bound to the Catalyst. Once the elders created Gielinor, their perfect world, they slept leaving the kin to their own business.
At some point, either while the elder gods were creating this cycle or after, Mah awoke and created Zaros for company. When he tried to leave, she created Seren, and bound the two so that they'd be unable to leave her. There they stayed for an untold period of time.
It is this period, after the elders went to sleep and before Zaros left Freneskae, that would comprise the lion's share of this cycle's lifetime. Aeons passed, life evolved new forms. Some came about naturally, whilst others were 'aided' in the process by Dragonkin experimentation or other magical sources.
The ancestors of humans evolved on Teragard. And through exposure to the Schism (perhaps accidental, perhaps religious offerings to the 'consuming lightning,' perhaps as executions), they would find themselves on other planes. On planes that were hospitable enough and managed to accrue enough of these beings in a short enough period, a population would take hold and develop separately from those back on Teragard.
Fast forward, and we see the rise and fall of sapient races throughout the planes. Humans arising on Teragard, elves on Tardiad, Aviansie on Abbinah, the succession of demons on Infernus, etc... Sometime during this, we see Zaros leave Freneskae and begin exploring the elder gods works from the beginning of this cycle. We see individuals of these sapient races stumble across artifacts of incredible power who rise to become gods.
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