As described in the rantings of H. P. Lovecraft, the ‘pallid gods of Earth’ were no match for the mind-numbing power of the Old Ones. At least not individually or in their existing pantheons. After getting smacked around a bit by Cthulhu and crew, deities with eons-old antagonisms resolved their differences and aligned themselves into the alchemically potent configuration known as ‘The Five-Fold Court’. Arranging themselves by their mystic element, the gods formed a ‘court’ to guard one of the four specific directions, with a fifth to hold the center and co-ordinate. This was the core of the civilization that would become known as Atlantis.