Ao

Ao was a formless shapeless entity of infinite dimensions that existed before the creation of all existence. It brought everything that is into being by detaching pieces of its infinite self and shaping them in various ways. Such was the intensity of Ao's work that it managed the impossible task of reducing its infinite form to one of measurable size and in modern times Ao rests in the void beyond reality, distant and silent. While Ao did create all the astral sea, the prime material plane (including the feywild and the shadowfell), the elemental chaos, the gods and primordials, it did not create everything. There is a place beyond time and space where horrifying, impossible creatures are born from the nothing between the stars. That place is called the Far Realm and there, trapped, live an unknown race of creatures endlessly wandering that dark place and searching for a way to breach the boundary between their reality and that of Ao. Some ancient cults believed that the Far Realm is born of Ao's nightmares as he slumbers and regrets the terrible nature that so many of his creations assumed after their birth.