BSG | The Deposed Gods
The Deposed Gods are the Eight Gods who were defeated by The Ninth God in a terrible war after He willed Himself into existence to save the world from its creators. This moment was known as the Ninth’s Triumph.
Worshippers of the Ninth refer to the period of the Eight Gods’ hegemony as the Cursed Age. The game’s calendar starts at 948 - the Kingdom is counting from year 0, where the Cursed Age ended and the Ninth God was finally victorious.
The official teachings of the Church of the Ninth is that the Eight were each defeated in different ways:
The First God vanished upon the Ninth’s arrival, and was never seen again;
The Second God was exiled after most of his power was stolen by the Ninth, and now wanders the world as a sad and powerless creature; The Third God was drowned in the darkest depths of the ocean, where her ghost still lingers;
The Fourth God was eaten by the Ninth and the Sixth in a grand banquet;
The Fifth God was burned to ash, which scattered across the world, causing demons to spring from the land which flocked to serve the Seventh God;
The Sixth God who had thought herself allied with the Ninth in his war, helped him devour the Fourth - but the Ninth fed her a poisoned seed, causing flowers to blossom within her and kill her;
The Seventh God was banished to the Hells, along with all his demonic followers, where he still plots the Ninth’s downfall to this day;
The Eighth God was torn into eight pieces and buried deep beneath the earth.
Common folk remember the fates of the Eight with an old schoolyard rhyme
“Eight dark Gods, lords of hellfire,
Three would live and five expire;
The First, the coward, fled and vanished,
The Seventh, the rebel, beaten and banished;
The Second wanders, now depowered;
The Third was drowned, the Fourth devoured;
The Fifth burned while the Sixth bloomed;
And the Eighth, asunder, lies entombed.”
Worshippers of the Ninth refer to the period of the Eight Gods’ hegemony as the Cursed Age. The game’s calendar starts at 948 - the Kingdom is counting from year 0, where the Cursed Age ended and the Ninth God was finally victorious.
The official teachings of the Church of the Ninth is that the Eight were each defeated in different ways:
The First God vanished upon the Ninth’s arrival, and was never seen again;
The Second God was exiled after most of his power was stolen by the Ninth, and now wanders the world as a sad and powerless creature; The Third God was drowned in the darkest depths of the ocean, where her ghost still lingers;
The Fourth God was eaten by the Ninth and the Sixth in a grand banquet;
The Fifth God was burned to ash, which scattered across the world, causing demons to spring from the land which flocked to serve the Seventh God;
The Sixth God who had thought herself allied with the Ninth in his war, helped him devour the Fourth - but the Ninth fed her a poisoned seed, causing flowers to blossom within her and kill her;
The Seventh God was banished to the Hells, along with all his demonic followers, where he still plots the Ninth’s downfall to this day;
The Eighth God was torn into eight pieces and buried deep beneath the earth.
Common folk remember the fates of the Eight with an old schoolyard rhyme
“Eight dark Gods, lords of hellfire,
Three would live and five expire;
The First, the coward, fled and vanished,
The Seventh, the rebel, beaten and banished;
The Second wanders, now depowered;
The Third was drowned, the Fourth devoured;
The Fifth burned while the Sixth bloomed;
And the Eighth, asunder, lies entombed.”
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