Godfall

The Godfall was a pivotal conflict that spanned the entirety of the Third Age. The conflict led to the devastation of many regions of the world, especially Nivelor, Uxalon, and Vantion, and the departure of the Divines from the Material Plane to the Outer Planes.
Initially, the Mortal Pact, guided by the Nameless One, was able to vanquish the Primordial Divines and usurp their Souls. Over the bloody and apocalyptic next centuries, however, the inheritor Divines were able to gradually recapture the ineffable power contained therein, and re-establish Divine rule over the world. 
== Background ==
== Course of the conflict ==
=== Phase I: The Eclipse===
The so-called Eclipse was a pivotal event in the history of the universe. In a carefully-coordinated and syncopated events, the four Primordial Divines were either killed or crippled in under three hours. In Elysium, the Nameless One challenged and defeated Soros the Ancient atop Mount Pyreiades; Sinvariol's magical experiments were tampered and her countermeasures against death sabotaged, leading to her demise in research; Amon-Sekh, the God-Pharaoh, was assassinated by his eldest, Amon-Khel, and his remains defiled, although the loyalists of Khalanset were able to recover his body and conduct the necessary funerary rites to return him as an Archlich Undead; in Mzundelft, during Mzund's wedding, Deep Elves infiltrated the event and killed many of the guests, including Tzulft, who, despite being too inebriated to lift his weapon, slew hundreds with his hands and teeth--Mzund himself was captured.
=== Phase II: Twilight Years ===
During the second phase of the conflict, the Mortal Pact and its allies were able to continue with a string of victories that resulted in their control of much of the world, and significant portions of the Elemental Planes. However, their efforts to capture territories in the Outer Planes were in vain, and the Divines slowly began to rebuild their armies and their power. With the death of the First Divines, and the conquest of the Primordial Souls by the 
=== Phase III: The Lost Heroes ===
Even in the darkest days of the conflict, a series of legendary and tragic figures arose that allowed the Divines to seize victory from the jaws of defeat.
Amongst the Dvaerkar, the man known as Thorek Gorunn led a band of mighty heroes to the rescue of Mzund, recovering his soul from the depths of the Deepfell. However, Gorunn had to give his life for the endeavor to succeed, damning himself to eternity in the depths of Tartarus for the rescue of the Dwarf-Father.
=== Phase IV: The Last Battles ===
During the fourth phase of the war, the renewed Divine Council began to finally secure the upper hand against the Mortal Pact. This was partly a result of the growing enmity between chromatic and metallic dragons following the death of Sollos, the red dragon primarily responsible for bringing both sects of dragons to war on the side of mortals, leading both to enter the War of Chromatic Succession and leading both to sign an armistice with the Divines.
The exit of Dragonkind from the war led to devastating defeats for the Mortal Pact throughout the world. In Vantion, the Archlich and Divine Goddess-Pharaoh, Neftis, destroyed Amon-Khel and his legions, before aiding House Nagashido to topple the final anti-divine insurgents within the Shogunate. In Erideon, the forces of Mzundelft were finally able to recapture the defiled capital of Tzand, launching an incursion deep into the Deepfell and vanquishing the Nerevar as a credible threat. On the surface, the followers of Soros and Dalos in the Western reaches of Erideon vanquished the Moranian and Duranian tyrants, breaking the Mortal Pact's strongest human nations. In Uxalon, the heirs of the destroyed Uxal were able to vanquish the traitorous Hexal, although the Uxal collapsed shortly thereafter. The Uxal would never be joined as such ever again.
And finally, in Nivelor, the Avarese mages were finally able to recover Oseilon and launch a counteroffensive against the forces of the Nameless One. With all the pieces in order, the final battles were held in eastern Nivelor, and the Godslayer vanished from both the world and from the annals of recorded history.
== Aftermath ==
=== Political consequences ===
The most significant direct consequence of the Godfall was the subsequent retreat of the Divines to the Outer Planes, from which they would never return.
Indirectly, the Godfall taught the Dragons chromatic and metallic of the incredible might that they could summon by working together. One of the Dragon commanders during the war, spared by the Inheritor Divines, a Silver-Blue dragon by name of Noldorant, would go on to negotiate the unpredecented Alliance of Dragons Chromatic and Metallic, and the subsequent inauguration of the Tyranny of the Fifth Age.
Category:Third Age