Delilah's Betrayal

## The Myth

Once, early on in the time of the world, the gods, looking down from their city in the heavens, decided to pool their power for the good of mankind.  They would all band together to bring the mortals into a new age, a golden age, and bless the world with peace.

The gods put aside their petty squabbles and raging wars, all of them joining together in this effort to bring happiness and health to all.

At their word, the lands grew more fertile than they'd ever been, the raging Winter storms relented, the sweltering Summer sun hid behind thin clouds.  The animals multiplied and grew plump, sickness died out and children were born, discovery, science and invention boomed, and the world was happy.

But it couldn't last.  Delilah, gazing down at the joyful world from above, grew displeased with all the happiness without tragedy, all the gain with no loss.  An anger built inside her as she looked down apon what she'd helped create, and she slipped down from the heavens, into the mortal relm, when no one was looking.

Dressed head to toe in black, as if already grieving for the deaths soon to come, Delilah went on a rampage, black tears streaming from her eyes as she watched cities burn by her hand, an anguished, enraged scream rising into the air as she summoned thunderstorms, hurricanes, blizzards and tornadoes at once.  The sky was choked with black smoke, looking like night for seven days without break.

It was carnage.  The mortal relm never stood a chance.  Armies were smited in moments, brother turned on brother as her power infected them.  Kingdoms crumbled to ruin, and everywhere she went, her seal, be it on a lucky token, or throughout her temples, snapped in two, barely holding together, against all logic.

As the goddess walked by, entire buildings turned to rubble, never to be salvaged, the most kindhearted mortals felt themselves fill with wickedness, and turned on their firends.

It was a terrible time, and on the seventh day, the other gods tracked Delilah down, and put a stop to it.

Descending from their heavenly abode, they surrounded her, and demanded the goddess stop.  Delilah refused, fighting back and wounding a few in her rage, ichor spilling onto the ground, reviving the burned, dead patches of earth that it touched.

The fight was long and tedious, Delilah against the world, but Delilah was chaos and luck and destruction and she was everywhere, so she evaded capture for another two days.

On the third day, she was caught.  Found by the gods by chance, she was collapsed on the ground, crying, and didn't fight or even speak when they took her away.

Delilah wasn't seen for generations, and it was just as well, giving the world time to heal.  In time, fearing her wrath again, the people tried to repair her broken seals, but any that were made new instantly cracked down the center, a marker of Delilah's betrayal forevermore.

## Historical Impact

Proof of the Betrayal is hazy at best, but it is true that the temples and symbols of Delilah do have a crack where stated, and any who try to make some without will find them cracked the next day, though those who are not religious suspect vandalism or pranks by worshippers.

In the days long before the War of Frost and Flame, little is known. It is assumed that was when the Betrayal would have taken place, back when even the Ancient cities had been around for many generations, and the myth was a myth even during that war. Little is found from the dubbed "Pre Betrayal", not a building nor painting, nor any such thing. Rumors speak of carvings or cave drawings existing that may possibly be from the Pre Betrayal eras, but there is no proof beyond scratched out images of a goddess, and odd symbols none can read.