Welcome to the land of Estalia. A world forever changed by what the common folk are calling "The downfall of the Gods". For the Gods have literally fallen from their celestial homes and with them came much change and destruction to the world. The begging of the end came when Daragor, God of violence and power, attempted to steal the Staff of Godly Might from its home in Limbo. Daragor had finally found a trio of artifacts from a lost age that would enable him to trick the other Gods, giving them the illusion the staff rested untouched and to hide Daragor's actions as he stole a fraction of each Gods power from the staff. He would have been able to slowly siphon power from each God until, when they finally noticed, he would be more powerful then all the Gods combined.

All would have happened if not for the actions of a new God, recently joined to the Pantheon. The God Paladine recently forced from his home plane and now greatly reduced in power was looking to find new worshipers on this plane. Somehow Paladine only found out about Daragor's plan and found him as he was about to take the staff. The two reach for the staff at the same time and made the smallest of contact. The two powers surged out of control as they were amplified by the staff until even an artifact of the Gods could stand no more. With an explosion felt across all planes of existence the source of the Gods power exploded.

Shards of the staff were flung across the planes and with it most of the Gods power. Some of this power was captured by residents of the different planes giving rise to the Immortals. The Gods now a shadow of their former selves no longer had enough power to hold on to their domains and with their faithful, acting as a sort of anchor, where dragged down to the prime material plane with highly destructive results. Mountains crumbled, sea coasts were altered, rivers turned off course.

But, this was not the end of the Gods, they were still mightier then all mortals, they were still immortal and could not die. Their power given from the prayers of the faithful still remained, though greatly reduced, they were now trapped in their avatar forms. Quickly the Gods took up residence in population centers to rally their faithful in an attempt to amass power enough to escape back to their domain. But this was their weakness. They need the faithful to provide them with power, but it was the call of those same mortals that dragged them back to the prime material plane. The Gods found they could only get but a glimpse of their old domain before being returned to the prime material plane. They could send proxies to the other planes, they could see into the other planes, they could summon creatures from the planes, but they could not go themselves. There was only one way left to them.

They had to find and reassemble the Staff of Godly Might and return it to its rightful place. And so the search began.

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