Ellicor's Tale

Omnos is the creator, the sole God, and he creates the world. He appoints 10 Solars to oversee his creation and guide the main races. These Solars are elevated and able to grant clerical spells to their followers, as Omnos imbues them with a fragment of his essence (divine rank). Over time the races of the First World viewed them less and less as intercessors to Omnos and eventual worshipped them as gods. Omnos, while distant, remained reachable and had a loyal set of clergy that maintained that he was the sole divinity. His worshippers did not have access to high level clerical magic (speculated because he imbued the Solarian pantheon) and thus their theology was often discounted. The Solarians eventually fought among themselves over the manner in which they interacted with their followers. Many believed they were in fact were gods. Some had darkened over time, warping into harsher or selfish versions of their original selves. There was war in heaven, as the Solarians led their respective angel subordinates against each other.  In the fight Culminos slew Allanora and in response Omnos, who had ignored the squabble, cast Culminos into the outer void.

This dramatically ended the fight and the Solarians went their separate ways. The angels who had supported the darkened Solarians became devils, and carried on a quiet war with the angels who remained, on behalf of their dark Lords. Time passed and Culminos sought a way to return to the world from the void, but was barred by Omnos’ edict. Denied, he then chose to lead the dark elder being known as Zarthos to the world in spite. Zarthos was a creature from outside of Omnos’ creation, and seems to be a personification for needless and purposeless destruction.  At first, only the intensity of the heavenly war changed as Zarthos approached and his influence touched the world. Then the peoples of the world began to take a turn for the darker. Madness for the first time was known.  Then the demons began to appear. Finally Zarthos himself began to enter the world (a process which took years).

Instead of fighting Zarthos or denying him entry, Omnos chose to allow him to act. Before Zarthos’ incarnation, Omnos collected all his faithful to him. The Argloians, warned of an impending apocalypse by the Omnian Brotherhood decades before, had spent those years gathering as much written knowledge as they could. This they hid in the tombs and the necropolis against the day that a second world came. When Zarthos’ avatar appeared the Solarians united, Dark and Light, and sought to slay or rebuke him. Only Ellicor refused to participate, which earned him the title of Betrayer from his bretheren. The majority were slain, only 3 besides Ellicor survived. In a gluttony of slaughter Zarthos wiped the surface of the world clean of life. At that moment, Omnos returned and dispersed Zarthos’ essence across the cosmos. All was dead save those trapped in stasis under the ground, and the 4 remaining Solarians who were altered, drained of power, and stripped of any semblance of divinity (divine ranks) by the magnitude of Zarthos’ lifewipe and dispersal. Omnos then gathered Zarthos’ essence and materialized it in a physical form. Then he took the shattered fragments of the world and crafted a prison for Zarthos – a giant ring with him chained within. He then erected massive enchantments over the world, and separated it from the multiverse to keep Zarthos imprisoned. Omnos retreated into the void, to start a new creation elsewhere. Before he left he gave the world itself sentience, and the charge to keep Zarthos imprisoned.