History of Immortuos

The Era before mortals found the key to gaining divinity. Known for its advanced magical technology and the direct influence of the Old Gods leading to conflicts between different followers.

#### THE SERENDIPITY OF THE WHIMSICAL FATE

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**Celestial**

The first being to exist, the Whimsical Fate created the universe so they might have something to do. The Lawful Fate brought order to the confused mess of a universe the Whimsical Fate created, and in doing so created the planes of existence. The Knowledgeable Fate, wishing to populate the planes, created the Old Gods and tasked them to make denizens of these many new worlds.

### THE GODS WAR

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At this point, the God's War's exact beginning is unknown.

As the story goes, after mortals unlocked the key to divinity, many fought to become gods. Their petty squabbles turned to earth shattering conflicts with their newfound power. So terrible was the damage they wrought on the material plane that the Old Gods united to fight against them. This conflict only ended with the rise of the Veil.

#### THE LEGEND OF THE DAWN MARTYR

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Military action

Eike was a powerful paladin of the Platinum Dragon who fought a warlock known only as Anathema. Anathema had made a pact with one of the New Gods, and she had summoned an army of devils to storm a city. Eike fought their way to Anathema, intending to slay her, but the warlock used her powers to open a portal to hell beneath Eike's feet, attempting to banish them there.

As the legend goes, before they fell, Eike lashed out and stabbed Anathema through the heart, before pulling her down with them.

With the warlock controlling them gone, the fiendish army fell into disarray, and the fight turned to a rout. By the break of dawn, the battle was over, and everyone knew who to thank for the sunrise they saw.

### IMMORTUOS, THE LAND OF UNDEATH

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In this part of the Material Plane, Chemosh took control after The Creation of the Veil. Over the centuries, the land has become desecrated, overtaken by followers of Chemosh, undead, fiends, and other monsters.

Followers of other gods, humanoids and the like, hold on in this wasteland by living in forbiddances, places where undead cannot cross without bursting into holy flame.

#### THE CREATION OF THE VEIL

(6000)

Created by the Old Gods, the Veil is erected to end the Gods' War by separating the New Gods from the Material plane. It is a barrier that prevents all but the most powerful portals from making a way into the outer planes, and portals are impossible to open from the outer planes to the Material plane, leaving the New Gods to rot, disconnected from their followers.

The influence of the Old Gods remains, however, thanks to the artifacts they created before the Veil was put in place. These powerful magical objects work to bypass the Veil, though only slightly, allowing a trickle of the Old Gods power to reach their followers.

#### THE DESTRUCTION OF ROANOKE

(6000)

The Town of a Roanoke is destroyed by Anathema, a follower of the New God Zaxantruss who turned into a banshee after her death by Eike's hands. Bound as all banshees are to their place of death or, in her case, corpse, she found herself tied to the town she destroyed. There she would remain, her pleas for freedom ignored by Chemosh and unheard by her god, taking what pleasure she could by torturing the spirits of the townspeople.

#### THE GROTTO'S END

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Consantoir and his flock fall to infighting and paranoia spawned from being trapped in the dark of the grotto that Consantoir created to try and protect them from the followers of Chemosh.

#### THE RISE OF THE FORBIDDANCES

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In the face of Chemosh's increasing hold over the land, powerful clerics of The Raven Queen are able to devise a new abjuration spell, allowing the creation of Forbiddances, large swaths land protected by the Forbiddance spell. The first Forbiddances were Wavecrest, Valor's Creed, and Stormstriken.

#### BESHABA'S TEST ESTABLISHED

(6017)

Faced with a lack of arable land and a rising population, Wavecrest establishes one of the first Forbiddances, Beshaba's Test. It is named in honor of the Goddess of Misfortune in hopes that she may look kindly upon the venture.

The Forbiddance is established successfully, and Beshaba's Test becomes one of Wavecrest's most important lifelines as the city-state continues to create new forbiddances.

#### HEAVEN'S NEST ESTABLISHED

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After the discovery of rubies in a northern mountain valley, a cleric of Moradin, Dà Laoban, travels with fellow cursedefiers to establish a forbiddance there. Due to the way the mountains are almost always in view, cradling the sky, they dub the new forbiddance "Heaven's Nest." Laoban elects to stay in the forbiddance as the first psychopomp and senior stonekeeper. The former title he gladly hands off to the first qualified person, due to his hatred of dealing with other people and their petty problems.

#### THE MODERN DAY

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The current year that the campaign takes place in. Right now, it is summer.