Godsgrave Finale Recap

The new gods returned from their meeting with death, tired and sore and ready for rest. Esmerelda retired to her lair to study the Wish spell, and Elda Gem took the Milkstar, the artefact milk jug created by Amun Khara, and began cooking wondrous meals.

Namjoon was training and sparring whilst Yugom drank, and Sol and Leorah were standing watch on the divine plane. Meena was winding down in her room when the angel attacked her. A great golden skinned figure of terrible beauty, the angel apologised through tears as he struck her with his sword. Meena fled and raised the alarm as the attack starrted in earnest.

Hundreds of angels were winking into existance around the temple of the well. Sol and Leorah, aided by Ubitysa, defended the well from an endless onslaught. As the rest of the new gods rushed to help them, Leorah called out and told them they had to go and kill the king of the gods now, as the angels would never stop coming as long as he was alive.

The new gods, minus Leorah and Sol, began to climb and fly up the goat-path that lead to the King of the Gods home at the summit of Cloudpiercer Mountain. Above them the stars were blinking out, one by one.

As the night turned into day, the gods saw the landscape below blanketed by the deadly silver mist, and the sky was overcast with dark grey clouds. The new gods saw what they first thought were meteors, falling from the sky, but on closer inspection, they realised they were dragons, falling through the clouds, with trailing lines of mist that they clawed and flamed at madly as they fell to the ground below.

The King of the Gods awaited them at the end of a trail, on the other end of a broken bridge, in an ancient temple of the same style as the well of souls. He was flanked by his bodyguard of angels.

They spoke briefly, and the king admitted his hubris created the fog, and offered them a chance to join him, and they would keep the people of Sorefoot Sanctuary safe as they waited for the fog to pass. He also told them they knew nothing about being gods.

The new gods were unimpressed with his plan to be vassals to a king in a dead land, and told him that it was time for the old world to die and a new world to be made in its place.

The king acknowledged their call to battle, and reached up and plucked the sun out of the sky, placing it in his lantern.

The battle was long and arduous, with the king being a masterful sorceror and warrior, and the lantern producing scalding radiance which took a heavy toll on the new gods. Eventually Yugom wrenched the lantern from the king, and placed the sun back in the sky, burning himself terribly.

Elda Gem used her potent healing magics to keep the gods alive, even bringing them back from the dead on several occasions.

Esmerelda released the imprisoned apocalypse beast, and Amun Khara leapt upon its back and wrestled it to attack their enemies.

Namjoon and Meena dealt death wherever they went. Meena's bow sang and Namjoon's flaming spear struck over and over again.

The King's bodyguard were slain, and the apocalypse beast fell into the fog below.

Eventually the new gods prevailed and struck down Orolt, the king of the gods. He instantly dissolved, leaving only his crown behind.

Looking around, the new gods realised the mist had enclosed the entire world. The site of their battle was a tiny bubble in an eternal sea of oppressive grey fog.

The crown lay between them, and when Amun Khara picked it up, it spoke of how he could slay his friends and become the new king. It was quickly dismissed, as the new gods had been friends for decades.

When the crown's manipulations were stripped away, it repeated two words endlessly: Belief, Sacrifice, Belief, Sacrifice, Belief, Sacrifice, over and over again.

The new gods tried to send message spells and scry Leorah and Sol, but received no answer. They were lost to the fog. They discussed what to do next.

They knew the fog was made up of the remnants of souls that the king had taken too much essence from, just fragments of personality, starved of life and identity.

Esmerelda was the first to act, taking her draconic form and flying into the fog, lowering her defenses. She felt the fog draining away her own divine soul - her life essence.

Understanding oblivion and death better than most, Esmerelda decided to turn back. But her actions inspired Namjoon, who took a leap of faith off the side of the mountain into the fog. Namjoon gave almost all of himself to the fog, sacing only a shred for himself. He landed on the ground in front of the injured and maddened apocalypse beast.

The new gods that remained, Meena, Yugom, Elda Gem and Amun Khara, gathered around the crown, and gave themselves entirely to the fog. They heard a million voices call out to them: "Everything was taken from us. And you have sacrificed yourselves to us willingly, and given it back. And now we return it once again to you, willingly, power returned a thousandfold."

So Meena, Yugom, Elda Gem and Amun Khara, were the first to achieve apotheosis. They destroyed the apocalypse beast and Namjoon joined them, then they appeared, with Sol and Leorah, around Esmerelda.

Yugom said:

"Esmerelda... Let go. Come Home""

And she did. And they were the new gods.