AQL | The Deposed Gods
The Deposed Gods are the Eight Gods who were defeated by The Ninth God in a terrible war after He willed Himself into existence to save the world from its creators. This moment was known as the Ninth’s Triumph.
Worshippers of the Ninth refer to the period of the Eight Gods’ hegemony as the Cursed Age. The game’s calendar starts at 948 - the Kingdom is counting from year 0, where the Cursed Age ended and the Ninth God was finally victorious.
The official teachings of the Church of the Ninth is that the Eight were each defeated in different ways:
Common folk remember the fates of the Eight with an old schoolyard rhyme
“Eight dark Gods, lords of hellfire,
Three would live and five expire;
The First, the coward, fled and vanished,
The Seventh, the rebel, beaten and banished;
The Second wanders, now depowered;
The Third was drowned, the Fourth devoured;
The Fifth burned while the Sixth bloomed;
And the Eighth, asunder, lies entombed.”
