The gods were fallen.  It took many generations for humankind to learn of this.  Many prophecies and visions.  Many failed quests by heroes and explorers who sought to find the truth of those prophecies and visions.  It was not known how or when it had happened, and perhaps a few gods still lived, but it was well-known by Damario’s time that the gods had fallen.

And they left chaos in their wake, a chaos that followed from the unraveling of everything that the gods—for all their faults—had held together.   Continue reading