When Maya the Aldar was raped by the Unnamable Horror, the course of history was changed forever. War among the Gods broke out and eventually Ayar himself took a hand. After many years of gestation and a long, painful childbirth, Maya gave birth to two strange babies. Smaller by far than any Aldar babies, these 'humans' were also weaker and were born with a tabla rasa; a blank mind. Aldar children are born with inherited memories and skills and are immediately capable of caring for themselves. The Aldar laughed and mocked them, calling them weak and pitiful. When Proteus declared that the children would be the inheritors of the continent of Sapience on the world of Achaea, Aldar dissent grew and exploded across the cosmos into the Chaos Wars (see Mythology).

Maya loved and cared for her two offspring, the male of which she called Callisto and the female, Sinope. As they developed and grew, the two human children were constant companions. As a natural outgrowth of this closeness, and because they had been charged by Proteus to become the progenitors of a new race, they became lovers. We of the modern age, with our iron weapons, sophisticated warfare, and learned scholars may consider this evil, but let us not forget that times were different then. This was the age of legends, and we have no right to judge these heroic figures of antiquity with our modern morality. Sinope bore Callisto seven children, collectively known as the Offspring. Four of them - Pasiphae, Elara, Lysithea, Himalia - were female, while the other three - Carme, Anake, and Ledo - were male.

As Sinope and Callisto grew older, it became apparent that they were not aging. It seemed that they possessed the near-immortal lifespans of the Aldar and would never perish of natural causes. However, Lucretius, God of Knowledge, theorized that as the generations of humans came and went, each succeeding one would possess less and less of this long lifespan, until they were as other mortals. He went on to explain this as being a result of the interbreeding of pure Chaos, in the form of the Unnamable One, with Aldar. The entropic energy would cause the Aldar energy to dissipate over time, leading to lifespans more on par with the lifespans of the other mortal races.

Soon after the birth of the Offspring, Proteus, Phaestus, and Daedalus came to Achaea with the Sceptre of Divinity. They broke the sceptre into seven pieces and gave one to each of the Offspring, saying that whomever could unite these pieces into one would attain rewards beyond imagination. Sinope and Callisto were dismayed at this, for they did not wish to see their burgeoning race torn apart by strife. They had raised their children well though, and, taking the advice of their parents, the Offspring agreed never to strive for domination over the others. The Gods were pleased with this compact, and created a wonderous valley called Ceylon, which means Golden Land, for the humans to dwell in.

Soon after this, the battle on Nishnatoba took place, but the humans, with their limited perceptions, knew none of it. Never did they know, until later generations came and established close relationships with the Gods, how close they came to being exterminated, and what an impact their birth had upon all Creation.