Ozcymath
Ozcymath is a demon lord who led a massive invasion of the Prime Material Plane during a period that has since been called The Demon War. Seeking an unbound Divine Spark he asserted was hidden somewhere in Acaelica, his invasion would ignite the The Ascension War immediately following his defeat.
The Demon War
Without Prelude
Using means that are still unknown to scholars, Ozcymath initially managed to open several, massive gateways from his layer of The Abyss onto the Prime Material Plane. These gates, although theoretically impossible, were nonetheless torn open for several seconds before collapsing on the southeastern island of Acaesura.
In those few seconds, innumerable demons poured onto the Prime and immediately began ravaging everything with which they came into contact. Catching so many Acaesurans plainly off-guard and defenseless, those who did not manage to flee were killed almost to a one.
The Ravelwinds
The death toll was swiftly accelerated as the demons began to spread out across Acaesura, invoking massive storms of ravelwinds as they went. Because these winds did not slow the march of those that survived them, it is speculated that Ozcymath was aware of the dangers they posed and had calculated his losses in advance, deeming them acceptable.
It is not known how many demons were slain, but the survivors were splintered naturally into contingents small enough to avoid invoking the winds further. This, in turn, allowed them to travel at even greater speeds. It was not long before the entire subcontinent of Acaesura had become Ozcymath's personal stronghold.
The Void Song
In a gambit originally devised by Inibis Valmeia, a group of adventurers were secretly transported to the inverted tower of Nuross where they managed to release the creature called the The Void Song from its prison.
The creature was loosed upon Acaesura and was content to massacre demons just as well as Acaesurans, and the devasation it was able to visit upon the horde ultimately crippled it. As his legions were forced to regroup around their leader, their march toward Acaelica proper was at least temporarily halted.
Ozcymath and his generals were forced to divert their attention to taking the creature out--a task in which they ultimately succeeded (inasmuch as the Void Song's apparently immutable nature allows). However, Acaelica had bought precious time, giving Lady Mallory the opportunity to perfect the spell that the voltas would use during The Scourge of Acaesura.
The Scourge of Acaesura
The demons' reign of terror only lasted a few months until Ozcymath was slain by the combined efforts of Palasar Tolthik, Inibis Valmeia, and Taslyn Cordaer in the cataclysm since styled The Scourge of Acaesura.
Despite the brevity of their campaign, however, the brutality that Ozcymath and his horde visited upon Acaesura was nonetheless pervasive. They caused chaos and destruction on a scale almost unrivaled in Acaelican history and were ultimately responsible for the deaths of millions.
The Ascension War
It would eventually come to light that the entire invasion was borne of Ozcymath's belief that an unbound Divine Spark existed hidden somewhere on Acaelica. Should he have been able to acquire it, the demon lord would have ascended to true godhood. With a foothold already established on the Prime, it is virtually impossible to imagine the world that would have resulted.
Although the origin of his belief is yet unknown, few have questioned its legitmacy given the remarkable lengths to which the demon lord had gone in its name. With the prospect of godhood still apparently within reach, the so-called Ascension War that has erupted between the voltas was a predictable (and perhaps inevitable) result of Ozcymath's defeat.
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