Gods in Bavelion Part 3: The Mountain and The Garden.

The birth of the 10 is seen as mixed event in the history of Bavelion, as it resulted in not only the birth of the schools of Arcane magic, but also resulted in several off-shoot problems indirectly or sometimes directly. Two such crisis was the war of Nine and One and the Mind Flayer crisis, both of which require their own explanation which is not necessary for this tale.
Our story continues with the gods, who had found themselves to be far less powerful after the Mysterium era ended with the war of the 9 and 1. The fact that such an event was even possible was a display that the worst fears of the gods was true. The longer they stayed on the Material plane, the more their power would wane and the more powerless they would stop any oncoming crisis in the future. The gods of the Mountain and Garden were always two different breeds. Gods of the Mountain were generally more hands off and more often wished to guide their followers down the right direction rather than take action, whereas the Gods of the Garden prefer direct action and would guide their followers to act similarly. In a simplified sense, one could look at the Mountain as Law and the Garden as Chaotic. A solution seemed impossible without leaving the realms in chaos, and so the gods of Garden and Mountain argued for years over the solution. Until a solution was proposed by an unknown third party. The solution was to force many of the existing gods to renounce their Mantle, or they would be killed. The God of the Hunt Venswal took this idea as the only possible solution.
Without the knowledge of the other gods, Venswal alongside his pack of generals began their hunt of all the gods they had deemed as unworthy to hold their mantles and offered the gods he encountered a choice, relinquish your godhood and be returned to mortality, or die and lose it to the hunt. It wasn’t long before Venswal cut a swathe through a majority of the gods of the realms. At this moment it is said that the hold world could feel Asmodeus grin.
The king of the Nine hells wished to test this new playing field and took the opportunity to move against the plane of Limbo and claim a new army of souls. The Gods of the Mountain and Garden were torn between what they should do. Many began to throw blame in each others direction, some gods of the mountain joined the garden and vice versa as each believed in a different solution. The gods of the Mountain believed that they should pursue the armies of Hell instead of Venswal as it would tip the balance of the blood war and spill chaos for the entire universe, whereas the gods of the Garden believed that they needed to save their brothers from the Onslaught of Venswal if they were to have any hope defending the realm ever again.
And so the gods split entirely, with half of the remaining gods on either side choosing to side with the Mountain or the Garden. Both of these former locations of the material plane were torn from the realms by the gods that inhabited them and cast into the astral sea, becoming their own planes, the mountain now known as Mount Celestia led by Moralin and the Garden now known as Ysgard lead by Annam. The Celestials of the mountain lead a massive assault on the 9 hells, forcing them to retreat from limbo to defend their home, whereas the gods of the Garden, now known as the Ysgardian's began collecting any surviving gods they possibly could from the material plane and took them into the garden.
5 of the most powerful gods of the time, Odin, Thor, Loki, Freya, and Njordr fell in this conflict while attempting to allow their people to escape to the Garden. But just as Venswal came to the last of their pantheon, the God Baldur, he struck him with his spear made of accursed flora and the putrid mistletoe at its top pierced Baldur’s heart and flung him into the Garden, but he would rise from death, reborn in the garden as they would retreat from the material plane.
To the dismay of the gods, Venswals plan had worked. The gods fled from the material plane and became much more powerful as a result of their siblings demise. Once this was done Venswal would attempt to slay the Archdemons of the Abyss, only to end with him becoming the most powerful demon, but such is a story for another day.
Now the gods were split into two remaining pantheons that felt bitterly towards each other, but occupied the same domains in the complete inverse of one another. The gods of Mount Celestia made up of primarily the younger gods lead by Moralin Half-Maker, and the gods of the Garden made up of the Older gods lead by Annam the All father.