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Olden Ones
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Mentioned in The Colour of Magic, these supernatural entities (also known as the "Old High Ones") are more powerful than even the gods. In fact they gaze upon infinite pantheons of gods across many worlds in many universes.
They have in the remote past exercised their power to prevent the Disc from being utterly destroyed during the first Mage Wars, shortly after the creation of the human race. Under their tutelage, the Gods of the Discworld were forced to acknowledge a higher authority, and the human race was recreated a good deal smaller and less powerful, so as to prevent them from sucessfully challenging the Gods again.
Azrael is the only one of the Olden Ones named and acknowledged in the Discworld canon.
