The Horizon

refers to a future point in time in which the gods will abandon the cosmos entirely, choosing to withdraw completely from an insane and unworthy timeline.
== History ==
The Horizon first became a common political concern to the mortal great powers during the Leandran War of . During the war, the nations of the cosmos binded themselves with a Material Covenant to limit their use of occult technologies, and thus hopefully forestall the coming of The Horizon.
While most eschatological traditions have historically emphasized an end to the universe as we know it from a reopening of the Pantheon War, some traditions over the millennia have anticipated a form of apocalypse in which the gods withdraw from the cosmos. These traditions bear some commonality with the Cult of Zulkir, which anticipates the total death of all life including the gods, and the Cult of the Unnamed, which anticipates a universe colonized or reunited by the "outer reality" or "true reality" that the gods would conceal. The Horizon gained significant attention as a concept with the ascension of the Church of the Spires, whose prophet Al'Hazred saw it as a cataclysm to forestall through stewardship of the ether on behalf of the Elder God Noloth.
The Veiled Masters of Nippon have long claimed to be the mortal power best able to outlast the Horizon. The Masters in part justified their dominion over the Nippon States and their attempts to control all of Celestial Space by way of their expectation that they will be the last surviving bastion of hope in the coming post-Horizon era.
Category:Historical Eras