Genesis

In the beginning, there was nothing, except for the Pillars of Creation and the Living Gate. Then a tiny disturbance in the nothingness between the pillars caused it to split in two, creating what is now known as the Astral Sea and the Elemental Chaos. Out of the Astral Sea arose the gods, created by their own will, and out of the Elemental Chaos the primordials form themselves.

Soon after, angels arose formed out of the astral essences as divine assistants to create mortal races during this time, while the slaads began to exist in the Elemental Chaos.

Moradin creates the first Maruts from the stuff of the Astral Sea and the souls of unborn angels to serve as impartial arbiters of divine disputes and, eventually, enforcers of divine pacts.

Djinns and titans are created by the primordials to populate the Elemental Chaos.

Macera, the mortal world, is created by the primordials and their newly formed titans using the creation-stuffs that eddied between the Elemental Chaos and the Astral Sea by discarding bits which are too bright or too dark. The world was then one of elemental fury, engulfed in an endless cycle of destruction and rebuilding. The bright pieces of creation-stuff detritus coalesce into the Feywild  while the dark pieces of creation-stuff detritus coalesce into the Shadowfell.

The gods look down from the Astral Sea and see what the primordials had created. They covet Macera, because they understand how it can be improved. They create natural life, tame the churning elements, and create the sun and moon in the world.

In the Feywild, the primordials create a new race of titans, the fomorians who in turn create cyclopes as servants and gnomes as slaves. About the same time, death Giants coalesce out of the Shadowfell as the world begins to know mortality. The Shadowfell becomes a focus for the souls of mortals, to which they travel before moving on to their eternal rewards. Falling in love with the mortal world, some angels make a deal with the newly awakened primal spirits and give up their immortality, becoming devas.

Io fuses astral spirits into the raw elements. The greater spirits become the dragons, while the lesser spirits become the dragonborn to serve the dragons.

Corellon discovers the Feywild and creates the elves (then a unified race) to inhabit it. Shortly after, He Who Is creates humans and Moradin soon follows suit, when he chisels dwarves from the bones of the earth. Melora and Sehanine then create halflings. With the creation process done, at least as far as the gods are concerned, Erathis gathers the greatest tribes of all the races to the isle which is now known as the Deadlands, where she inscribes in stone the first laws, using a stylus made from one of her own ribs.

Inspired by the many creations of the gods, the titans create giants to serve them.

A nameless god kills the Living Gate's guardian and opens the gate, releasing the defiling energies of the Far Realm. In order to seal the Living Gate again, Ioun and Pelor shatter it at the cost of Pelor's dominion of Verdant.

Envious primordials demand dwarves of their own. Pleased that the primordials appreciate his creations, Moradin gave the dwarves to the primordials and returned to his work. The primordials gave the dwarves to the giants as slaves, which the giants used to carve the first empire on Macera. For unknown reasons, Moradin doesn't react to the pleads of his people.