The Cataclysm

At the peak of The Atrean World War, the gods involved themselves, fearing the annihilation of the world if gone unchecked, acting against the wishes of the rest of the gods. A few members of The Benevolence (the good deities) declared war on The Dark Six (the evil deities of the world). At one point, three of these Dark Deities came head to head with the three of the Benevolent Ones in The Last Battle, a battle that none who engaged in lived through. Something occurred during the battle that so far none have been able to uncover the source. Whatever that trigger was, it set off a chain reaction and triggered a Cataclysmic event that split the world in two. It also set off a thick deadly mist spread across the surface of the planet, either killing or mutating all in it’s path. The epicenter of the mist is unknown, as is the nature of the mist itself.

When it looked as though all was lost and the planet was about to be consumed, many lesser deities and great mages sacrificed themselves to keep the world from being completely annihilated. They created a spire, a thin pillar of stone and earth that connected the two halves of the planet like a tendon and managed to freeze the planet into stasis while mid-explosion, and adjusted the gravity to the inside. The remaining mages, along with the several of the remaining Benevolent Ones, sacrificed themselves to create strong magical transport to teleport as many survivors as they could into the inside, concave halves of the planet.

Only roughly one-third of the population of the population survived the Cataclysm. Those who survived are often wracked with survivors guilt or insist that their loved on is still alive and is hiding somewhere out in The Mourneland, just waiting to be rescued, despite the Mist wreaking havoc on the outer edge of the planet.