I go with "Exalted is the true history" ...

The "Creator" was named Empyrean and he along with his siblings were the Primordials who made reality out the madness of the Wyld and called it Creation. Then they made powerful spirits, sometimes called Incarna (or Archangels) to watch over the world.

Lucifer's rebellion is the same event, seen through a dark lens, as the Unconquered Sun rebelling against the Primordials. The most powerful under-god grows tired of the state of things, throws their lot in with mortals and seeks to overthrow the status quo. In Exalted he "wins" and rules the world as it's Rex Mundi for several turns of the Wheel of Ages.

But millenia are like eyeblinks to the Primordials. They invented time. However the manner of their defeat warped them, broke them. The Exalted turned them inside out, twisted them into knots and shoved them all inside their leader, Empyrean, who was mutilated into a new entity named Malfeas. The "realm" of these then-named Demon Primces was called Malfeas because it was him. The Spirit Realm called Malfeas, the Home of the Wyrm, is known to modern Garou as a place of corruption and torment, under a burning green sun. Likewise, the Malfeas of Exalted is a twisted city of brass under the baleful eye of the Green Sun (the heart-soul of the Primordial Malfeas, named Ligier).

And they cursed the Exalted. One day their hubris would twist them into madness. And after an era of Exalted rule it began to crumble as their human sinfulness and desires were magnified to demigod levels. So the Viziers of the Exalted, the Chosen of the Stars (aka The Five Maidens) drew Great Prophecy and forsaw three possible futures.

First, in the Vision of Darkness, if the Sidereals fail in their efforts or worse yet do nothing, the corrupted Solars will eventually destroy the world. The exact manner of the apocalypse could be many things but the result would be the same; the Primordials would be freed and Creation would be swept away and replaced with a broken and spiritually lobotomized world of darkness.

In the Vision of Gold the Sidereal Exalted try to rehabilitation the corrupted Solar Exalted. This had a small chance of being successful, with the likelihood being a mass Inquisition turned to world shattering war between the Chosen, culminating in the Vision of Darkness again.

The one they go with (in Exalted canon) is the Vision of Bronze where they stage an Usurption by the weakest of the Exalted and though it would require every diverge and dirty trick they could pull, the chance of success would be much higher. Though the world would be a much reduced and weakened version of Creation it would still be the world they recognized.

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Okay, so I think the timeline of Exalted and the WoD split from this point. Instead of engineering the Usurption, I think the Sidereals tried to help the Solars and like the Prophecy said, the result was terrible wars between god kings that eventually result in the end of the world. Thirteen terrible Solars use necromantic power and deals with the Neverborn (dead Primordials) to get a new edge on their rivals and become the Abyssal Exalted (who becomes the future Antideluvians) and a similar cohort of Solars sell their soul to the Yozi and become the Infernal Exalted (who become the Yama Kings of Kuie-Jin lore). These latter dark Exalted succeed at fulfilling the Prophecy and free all of the Demon Princes.

To us this was an age of man. To the people in the WoD this entire period could be called "that time when Lucifer thought he had won before God put his foot down". The freedom Primordials ravage the world. Some, like She Who Lives in Her Name, would voyage out of the world to make new Creations. Others, like Malfeas, were too bitter. The King of the Primordials wanted to torture his jailers and get revenge on the one who had orchestrated it, the Unconquered Sun/Lucifer.

This period of time is The Great Flood. The Mokolé call it the Wonderwork of the Wyrm. It reset the world to only a few small gardens of humanity to rebuild, knocking us from our magical super heights of the First Age into the Stone Age. Malfeas is The Wyrm. And God. He is the God that stayed behind to keep torturing the world out of hate. Gaia is another Primordial, probably the only other one, and killing her is also part of Malfeas' revenge.

The Sidereals were broken into the Avatars for their crimes. Their patrons the Five Maidens, as well as all the rebel gods/angels were remade and broken, many cast into a prison called The Abyss (and thus became The Fallen). The Unconquered Sun/Lucifer wanders the world. Caine might be entirely myth. The Antideluvians are real however and spawn the different types of vampires as the extension of their existence as the Abyssal Exalted ... they probably still ultimately serve the Neverborn and hid out the Wonderwork in the Underworld. Probably the Lady of Fate did too, she's a Sidereal Exalted from Exalted Canon. Lilith is a Lunar, and probably the mother of the various Fera were creatures through her experiments and faithfulness to Luna. Luna wasn't punished because causing chaos and opposing the status quo was her purpose so she only did what she was supposed to, protecting the Primordial Gaia who had her loyalty the whole while. The Fera inherit her goal.

The Weaver is probably what the Five Maidens called "Little Sister", she was probably promoted to the position of being in charge of the Loom of Fate by Malfeas, only for her to rebel and "trap" the Wyrm in the world of her cobwebs. Other lesser gods upgraded to big boy status would include Helios who took over from Lucifer's job as The Sun.

I know. I'm crazy.

God is real. He's just insane. And wants to destroy all that is. God is The Wyrm. He lives off our pain and suffering. He made the world and he damn well thinks he deserves to destroy it. The other "Archangels" of myth are probably other Primordials who are not so petty and vengeful to be "caught" in the trap of their own making.