Dakanrøg

The **Dakanrøg** was the "end of the world" event that happened at the boundary of year 1 BD / 1 AD (before/after Dakanrøg).

## Timeline:

### Abyssal Plane:

During his stay in the Abyssal Plane, Xokaldir rallied a lot of the other exiled abyssal beings, while searching for the crystal.

It took them tens of thousands of earth-years, but since time doesn't flow the same in other planes, it didn't take that long for him.

### The teleportation crystal:

After a long search, Xokaldir and his horde eventually found it... They found the crystal.

They attempted to use it, but were unsuccessful at first.

After some time, they felt that the level of astral energy was increasing. Their continued presence in that spot concentrated enough energy to activate the crystal.

### The crossing:

They attempted another crossing. They overloaded the crystal, creating a massive inter-planar implosion. All of the planes burst into each other, creating a multidimensional hole that joined all of them together.

Xokaldir and his army survived.

In the material plane a prolonged very deep, loud, and thunderous rumble was heard basically everywhere on the continent. It seemed to emanate from a point very far east.

This event marked the beginning of Dakanrøg.

### Early Dakanrog in the material plane:

The earthly beings initially had no idea, all they knew was that something very very powerful exploded somewhere far away.

Some people wanted to find out what caused the sound that was heard seemingly by everyone, no matter how far away.

Soon, the mages felt something. What they felt was the gods being murdered by the army of Xokaldir, they didn't know that yet though.

### The battle of the gods:

When Xokaldir escaped, he didn't immedietaly appear in a place where the rest of the gods were. He was pretty far away.

He eventually found his way back to where the rest of the gods were and *immedietaly* started pounding the wall with astral cannons, astral explosions, and other magical projectiles.

A battle started under the <main\_gate>, but the forces of good were horribly outnumbered, literally hundreds to one.

The defence lasted several minutes, before they were overrun, the wall completely destroyed in multiple places, and the horde entered the palace. They pounded the palace with the same weaponry that they used to destroy the wall.

### The slaughter:

Some gods tried to flee, planeshifting away.

Many fought back, but the numbers of evil were far too great. The entire battle was over in under a day.

The initial horde numbered in the millions, and on the march, they stretched for tens of kilometers.

Only the front of the column partook in the fight, it was over before the rear could reach the battlefield.

Within a few days, more deities were found and killed by Xokaldir and the horde.

### Xokaldir in the material plane:

Soon after, they left the smoldering ruins of the palace and went to different planes to search for the remaining gods.

The material plane soon too became overran with evil, but not everywhere.

Some gods fled to the material plane, hoping to take on a physical form to hide from Xokaldir's eye.

Following the movement of gods to the material plane, the density of astral energy was increased.

### The chaotic aftermath:

This caused many dormant things to became active again, as well as twisting and modifying many of the material beings.

- Giant spiders, ogres, slimes, corpses, skeletons, and among others were created.

- Many ordinary beings were also "mutated" into corrupt versions.

Both the murder and leaving the astral plane caused the events associated with each god (e.g. the goddess of weather) to destabilize.

The once prosperous Old Kingdom started falling apart and descending into conflict and rivalry.

## Trivia:

The name Dakanrøg is derived from Ragnarok, which is the end of the world in norse mythology.