For fifteen centuries the Elder gods guided their children. Then they destroyed each other, and the world with them. The war that ended the divine age is remembered, with dread, as the Conflagration — and at its heart were two sisters.
"When gods cannot forgive one another, what hope is left for the rest of us?"
The Sisters Divided
The Ancient Deity, goddess of light and harmony, and the Ancient Devil, goddess of strength and power, were sisters — and opposites in every way that mattered. In a crisis whose true nature the faithful still argue over, the Devil broke a sacred and forbidden law. She may even have done it to save the world; the Infernal Creed insists she did. But the Deity could not abide what her sister had become, and demanded that the Devil be cast out of the world forever.
The Devil refused.
A Century of Fire
What followed was not a quarrel but a war among gods, fought across the last century before the close of the age. It drew in their followers, their fellow Elders, and whole nations; it scorched the heavens and the earth alike. Mortals died in numbers no chronicle could hold, caught beneath a sky that had become a battlefield. The proud alliance that had won the Crusades was forgotten; the gods who had once marched together now turned their full and terrible power against their own kin.
A century of such war could only end one way — in a catastrophe so total that the world resets its very calendar to the moment it happened: the Deity's Sacrifice.