History of Shanai

The Major Gods, the god of wind, fire, earth, and water, declare war upon one another and struggle for control over the world, claiming vast swaths of land as their domains. In their warring with one another, the Major Gods cause mass destruction across their battlefields, and many are killed and replaced during the conflicts.   Lapi, The God of Earth and the Fire God move the continents, crashing them together to make their own travel easier and block access to some of the oceans from Nagi, God of Water, meanwhile Nagi and the God of Wind creat devastating storms and permanently change weather patterns across the globe. The gods' actions cause many extinctions in their wake, permanently scarring the world.   In 5892, the Yellowstone Supervolcano erupts, thought by most to be directly caused by Fire God Vega and Lapi warring over the location, both having claimed it as their own, causing the War of Black Ash.   The conflict ended due to direct intervention of Shia, the God of Death, and Mora, The God of Life, coming to an agreement that if the war continued, all life in the world may be destroyed. The Majors were threatened that if they did not come to peace, the gods of life and death would slay all of them, and never again have Major Gods.

Due to multiple factors; the Yellowstone Eruption, worsening climate change, and regional destruction, areas across the globe see devastating flooding from the ocean. Tsunamis caused by earthquakes from the eruption hit the Gulf of Mexico particularly hard and flood out many of the interior states across the former United States that had sunk below sea level as a result of the eruption.   Globally, millions are killed in the devastation and it is thought to be a primary contributing factor to the extinction of the human race due to not just the high death toll, but complete eradication of up to an estimated 65% of farmland across the world.

Neia Lun De Draco and the Lunar Dragonflight declare war on all gods associated with the moon, which quickly becomes a declaration of war on the entire pantheon, mortals, and omnia alike.

With Vega's death there was a short window of time in which there was no god of fire, before Shia was able to allow Maka, God of Fire to ascend due to shi being preoccupied with battle. In this short timeframe, the dozens of volcanos across the Pacific Ocean that Vega had personally been controlling began to erupt, and once started, could not be stopped by the new fledging god.   Mount Shanai, being so close to major cities such as the City of Shanai and its suburbs, caused massive destruction with lava flows and earthquakes leveling homes, adding dozens of acres of land to the islands, and caused the island of Ni'iahu to once more rise out of the ocean as an island again. Many of the eruptions lasted weeks, continuously spewing lava and noxious gasses from the volcanos.   The death toll from the eruptions is said to be in the thousands and that an accurate count may never be collected due to just how much destruction was caused. Thousands are reported missing and among smaller islands, many fled into the oceans where it is likely they were taken out to sea by rip currents and the tides.