After the Akostón people left the Auraleaf Coast, many of the other races began attempting to fill the power vacuum that arose, however all attempts were thwarted by another, similar battle for power occurring in the heavens above. The modern accounts of this event frame the Battle of Heaven and Earth as the struggle between the now commonly worshipped Dawn War pantheon, and the old, fervently hated Akostón pantheon that preceded them. It's during this battle, which lasted an entire month, that Pelor was said to have smited the old gods down to the depths of the coast's waters, shattering the earth below to form a prison deep enough to keep them contained by the ocean's weight. In his divine radiance, he blessed all the nearby lifeforms with a golden color, defining the coast as his domain.