Primordials

Connections

• Ember fought them, as a guardian of the Fangwild
• Gnash drove the last of them through the Great Crevasse to this place and trapped them there with a giant avalanche
• Scarlet's nemesis, Baron Von Evilstein emerged from the Lost World at the head of a vast armada of airships and dinosaur-riding ape warriors (these warriors were likely Primordials)

Context

The word "primordial" means existing from the very beginning of time. Anything described as "primordial" was the very first...ever. In Greek mythology, the primordial gods were Gaia and Uranus, as well as their children, the titans. The titan Chronos gave birth to Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Hesdia, Hera, and Demeter. In modern fantasy franchises, such as God of War and Dungeons & Dragons, primordials were the first beings and deities of existence.

In the Brawlhalla universe, Primordials are "an ancient race of savage cannibal apes," according to Gnash's lore. They were clearly on earth before humans did, and they almost wiped out all humans until Gnash intervened. The Primordials come up again in Ember's lore, and possibly in Scarlet's. Baron Von Evilstein's army of ape warriors can be assumed to be Primordials, or at least descendants of Primordials, since they emerge with the baron from the "Lost World," where dinosaurs existed as well. Perhaps, as Gnash's lore stated, the Primordials were only trapped by the avalanche, and eventually escaped or carved out a living in the arctic (or antarctic) mountains to eventually live in the Lost World. It is also clear that the Primordials found a connection to the Fangwild, or were close to one, since Ember had a reason to fight them (probably to protect her forest home from the apes).