The Divine Wars

The Divine Wars were a series of escalating conflicts between the Fae courts. Many Fae gods began actively recruiting mortal followers form the material plane to amass power. They would grant their followers miracles and directly intervene in mortal affairs. Eventually the avatars of gods would directly clash, leading to widespread destruction. Entire nations organized under the banner of religion and followed their gods into battle.

The divine wars wrought havoc on Adragal over the course of a millenia. Nations would rise to unimaginable heights with the boons of the divine, only to fall to the hands of rival. Infighting in the courts spiralled out of control until there were no sides, just a constant struggle for power between Fae gods through their pawns. The Fae courts still struggled against each other, but there were endless other factions coming and going.

The Divine Wars came to an end after Rajuul, a Primordial God, aided the Ezriath, King of the Summer Court. The summer became endless. Crops died and civilization stood on the brink of collapse, even through the aid of their deities.

Then came the Thaumaclysm. Talia wept for the world, her tears falling as apocolyptic tempests upon the world. The seas boiled with the rage of Wah Feydan. Ish Kaman was silent, buried in grief over the loss of his son, Kamakavaki.

Iorath, predicting the reaction of the Primordials, worked with a loose coallition of Fae gods to create strongholds against their sorrows for mortals and gods alike. After the storms were weathered Ish Kaman demanded and end to the wars.

The Thaumaclysm ended the wars, but it also destroyed much of the main landmass of Adragal. The land of Azariam was claimed by a new sea, the Stormwrough Sea, where an eternal storm rages still.

Ish Kaman threatened desolation if there would not be peace, and after the Thaumaclysm, none dared deny the ceasefire. The Fae Gods came to an accord, the Immortal Interdictions which layed out rules severely limiting the ways gods could influence the affairs of the material plane. Most gods agreed to the basic rules, having witnessed the consequences of the Divine Wars were many of their kind perished, but a few refused to capitulate.

The Fae gods that refused the Immortal Interdictions were exiled from the Fae Lands to planes further from the material, limiting their ability to exercise direct power in the material plane. These gods became known as the Divinities, and their realms known as the Divine Planes.

The Divinities formed new sides based on their view of mortals on the material plane. The Ascendants broadly try to encourage and protect and these mortals, while the Descendants see them as tools or unimportant. The difference in core beliefs leads to eternal warfare between the planes of the Divnities, but the distance from the material plane mostly keeps the damages segregated to the divine planes.