Dahak's Destruction
The god Dahak rampaged across Terravita, burning everything in his path. He made massive volcanoes erupt where there had been none, splitting the land to bring the fires of the earth bursting to the surface. He blackened whole continents and razed great nations to the ground. This continued for an untold amount of time until, amidst the fire and ash, a group of heroes arose to bring him down. Aided by his father, Apsu, these heroes gathered an army of the mortal races for one final, desperate attempt at putting an end to centuries of ruin, and, battling through the demons and dragons that had risen during this age of destruction to face Sorrowmaker. A bloody battle ensued, during which the such tremendous power was unleashed by both sides that the entire world shook. The heroes suffered catastrophic losses both to their army and to themselves before striking a mighty blow against Dahak himself. In a desperate gamble by the most powerful arcane and divine casters the age had ever seen, they had succeeded in stripping The False Wyrm of his immortality. The discharge of magical energies wreaked havoc among the ranks of the heroes even as it did the same to him and as he fled to his volcanic lair, he left behind an enemy that was nearly spent. A meagre handful of those who had set out to rid the world of this threat, the remaining heroes regrouped and set out in pursuit of Dahak to finish what they had begun. Confronting him in his volcanic lair with a portal to the Abyss spewing forth hordes of demons far below them the mortal heroes struck the final blow to the weakened, wounded, and most importantly mortal god. And with that, The Endless Destruction was ended.
After some debate, the heroes offered Dahak's Godspark to one of their patrons, the Archdevil Mephistopheles. This granted him full divinity and the Trickery domain and Deception and Thievery subdomains.
Some peoples were able to evade the worst of Dahak's rampage by going somewhere he could not easily reach. One notable occurrence of this was the vast majority of dwarves who survived the initial slaughter retreating deep underground.
Since the end of the Destruction the gods have maintained a strict policy of non-interventionism towards the inhabitants of the Material Plane, or at least Terravita, and have been permanently banned from entering the Material Plane. They are still able to interact with it through followers and avatars, but cannot enter it themselves. Possessing someone might be a way to get around this.
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