Ascension of the New Gods

Four hundred years ago the world was shattered, and then remade, or so the legends go.   From our most sacred places, the Life Ducts, ancient beings emerged. They claimed to own this world, as it was crafted with their flesh and bone, their blood that gave it life.   They wandered the land, and where they tread, disaster followed in their wake. Fields burned, armies routed, and forests withered into ruin. And worst of all, the Life Ducts were naught but rubble.   The gods themselves walked upon our soil. Our greatest warriors had fallen, or had joined the enemy. The world was ending. Humanity was at its bitter end.   But this is not where the story ends.   The Zodiac, twelve of the Gods, our original creators, they would see their brethren imprisoned once again. The Zodiac chose seven human champions to ascend into godhood, creating warriors the of the like this world had never seen.   The New Gods met with the Old, and the reverberation of their conflict shook the earth. Five long years of battle passed, and at the end the New Gods were all that remained.   Their opponents slain, the New Gods sealed the corpses of the fallen gods in new Life Ducts, and began their glorious reign as the lords of the world. It was a grand, golden age of peace and prosper.   But as all things do, that age came to an end. The New Gods spoke to us all in what we now call the Great Dream. In this dream the Gods proclaimed that they were renouncing their power, that they were be taking their leave. But they said not to despair, for the power will not truly be gone, it will be there for those worthy enough to take it.  

The Greatest Trials of humanity are yet to come. And when they do, we eagerly await the new heroes who will overcome them. - Final words of the Great Dream