The Soulflood

A well known doomsday prophecy in all corners of Aedelor is the Soulflood. In this prophecy, Ziune is destroyed and his duty of ferrying souls to various afterlives is left vacant, though different tellings of this prophecy have different reasons for why this occurs. With no one to shepherd the souls away from Aedelor, they are left to linger. The souls grow restless, angry, and violent and with each new death, their numbers grow. The process lasts centuries, but at its culmination there is no single living thing left on Aedelor.   There is disagreement on what happens next, but a popular version is that the gods go to war over the right to this treasure trove of souls and bring ruin upon themselves in doing so. Without souls to draw power from, they are weakened and easily destroyed by each other. And as they are destroyed, so too are their realms and all those who dwelled there, until eventually there is nothing left. It is therefore often proposed that Zazelthul, Godking of Nihil, will be the one responsible for Ziune's destruction and the onset of the Soulflood; however other tellings blame Sirae, Godqueen of Meija, for stirring the conflict; and rarer still are those that believe Ziune will bring about the Soulflood himself when he tires of ferrying souls.