Godswar

The Godswar was the massive conflict between the entire pantheon, the center of which lay The God of Man Zavan and his lover, Mordukai(God of Death). At the end of the hour long war, all of the gods were never heard from again, presumed to have killed each other during the conflict.

At the height of the Hundred Years War between the Duergar and the other races of Man, many Gods grew wary of man’s increasing power. A pact was formed from an unlikely cabal of Siforr, Xunos, Vodon, Vistrix, Voara and Barros. On the first day of the second year of Zavan, they attacked all at once, intent on killing the God of Man with a single strike.

What they had not planned on was Death finally taking a lover. They had certainly not planned on how fiercely he would fight to protect him. The titanic conflict that ensued quickly spilled across the entire pantheon as each Deity was forced to chose a side.

The Great Godswar had begun. It would barely last an hour.

As the Gods battled for control over the mortal realm, they tore the planet asunder. Millions of creatures died within minutes as divine energies not seen since the creation of the universe were harnessed as sword and shield.

Sifor broke the heavens, searing the lands with all powerful rays of light and heat with vaporized those in it's immediate vicinity. Vodon incited the rage of man to invoke the masses against Zavan. Xunos turned the land itself against their adversaries, provoking the rage of the God of Man against the land he was sworn to protect. The gods of order and chaos worked together for the first time since their births, combining their divinities to sow destruction with surgical precision, turning the flow of rivers and sowing discord in the mind of the God King.

However, for each of the gods that sought to destroy Zavan, many more saught to oppose them

In the final moments of the hour-long war, Zavan gave his life defending the continent. Siforr struck at him again and again, sundering the land with earthquakes and volcanos. In order to save the city of Ani, Zavan sacrificed a third of Velend raising the Spine of Ogun and much of the countryside surrounding the capitol city as it sank beneath of the waters of a new inland sea. In his dying moments, Zavan willed his Divinity into the fabric of his armor, weapons, clothing and crown, and then willed these artifacts to a simple farmer from Velend named Jakub Cladivo. The last artifacts ever forged will be forever bonded to the most worthy of those born within the Five Kingdoms.