The First Epoch covers the period of time in the First Era when scholars believe the earth was on fire, a liquified ball so hot that the metals and stones themselves ran as rivers and oceans. This period of time, though largely theoretical, is known as “The Molten.”
When the world began to cool, Adnati moved to the Second Epoch, known as “The Cooling.”
How can sages and scholars know what Adnati was like before living creatures existed, much less intelligent creatures that could pass along oral and written histories? It is said that dwarves trained in the racial art of Stone Singing were able to learn of the world’s earliest history from the stones of the earth themselves.