Harmonic Convergence

From the elvish text of the same name, this almost mythical event brought Aletrias and indeed the world to the brink of destruction. It is an accepted truth that in prior ages the gods were numerous and enjoyed great power, they roamed the material plane and many were their interactions with the fledgling mortal races. It was a time of gods, monsters and the forging of the continents. Then one day a dark terror fell from the distant stars and changed everything. The Calamity, a force so powerful the gods themselves were left helpless by its power. For an enemy they scarcely understood, the gods reacted in different ways. Some fought, others hid and more beside begun to seek ways to seek peace between all. Yet in the wake of the calamity there could be no peace. It was single minded, seeking only en end to all life. And so, with little choice in the face of oblivion the multitudes of life, both divine and otherwise banded together and an alliance was formed to combat this great foe.

The Calamity was legion, a seemingly endless stream of power decimating all who opposed it, gods that had shaped the planes of existence fell besides mortals that had lived only a handful of years. It seemed desolation was inevitable.

When all hope seemed lost only eight gods remained and much of the mortal world had been decimated. On the verge of oblivion, Bahamut, dragon king, saw through what the great darkness had brought, a union, between ancient foes, bitter enemies and eternal rivals. He saw the enmities of the past set aside and a spirit of cooperation inconceivable until this great end faced all life. It was in this moment he let out his legendary thunder call; When the black breath blows And deaths shadow grows And all lights pass Come brother Come sister Life to the dying In mortal hands lying!

Fear had seized the fractured survivors but in that moment the courage of Bahamut shone brightly, yet the first to answer his call was no god, but a mortal.

A single elf walked forward and side by side the two charged the darkness that was at the precipice of completing its task. Bolstered by this sight the rest of the living struck forth and somehow beat back the dark.

In time the elf would become known as the Silent King, a hero of unmatched renown who would go on to shape much of the new world.

Much of the truth of Harmonic Convergence is lost to mortal history, in the wake of so much destruction it is clear a period of rebuilding that would last an age took place but it was not without its own strife. It was due to this that the surviving gods retreated from the material plane and established much of the cosmology of the multiverse we understand today.