The Plane Meld

As the corrupted followers of Taraka gathered en masse deep underground in @trentenstone and concocted the ultimate way to bring their god's beloved chaos to all, they contrived to perform the most devious ritual. As the ritual began, their numbers quickly were cut down as the magic needed sucked the lifeforce out of the cultists. Finally after days and nights of ceaseless ritual and inscribing complex sigils the magic came to life in terrible form. The earth began shaking violently across all the realms, fire rained from the sky and tsunamis pounded the coastlines for what felt like forever but in fact only lasted for the longest 30 minutes in history. The essences of the gods tied to each plane were partially ripped out weakening them significantly. Yet this cataclysmic event did not reach its planned crescendo thanks to the intervention of Arengen willingly sundering his essence into several pieces casting his might across the planes. His shattered soul became the anchors keeping the order of the planes in place stopping all planes from fully melding into one single chaotic primordial plane turning in on itself.    In the aftermath of the thwarted destruction of all planes, the world has taken on a completely new shape. Planes of existence have been jumbled irreversibly. Whole continents and oceans from other planes have been violently yanked into and out of the world removing known lands and adding many new unexplored ones.    Thus was born the new world of Syn.    Tensions rise among the nations as their borders have been irrevocably changed and where once stood farmlands or mines to supply the wealth of a nation stands an ocean or new unknown neighbors.    In light of the dramatic upheaval that has occurred throwing all into disarray leaders and historians across the lands have a least agreed on one thing...this is the start of a new era. This will become the new year zero on the calendars from which all time will be reconciled as things can never go back to the way they were.