Editing The Wyzard Setting Essays (section)

=== 4. The God-War ===
A heavily chaotic race, the Amaranthans eventually rebelled against those beings claiming the status of deityhood.  It galled them that any being should arrogate to themselves a higher station than what their Emperor appointed.  Thus began the dreadful God-War of the Amaranthan Empire.  It raged on for centuries, and the Amaranthans did in fact manage to subjugate the four major elements - to this day the great elementals are unusually susceptible to the antique sorceries to which the Amaranthans bound them.  The war did not end, however, and each new year brought more powerful beings into conflict with the unbelievable might of the Amaranthans.  The great houses were eventually tempted to rebel against the endless war, and the Empire self-destructed in a decade of blood and fire.  This left the world and humanity at the mercy of all the things they had pissed off. Hint: It was almost everything.

The ruins and deep fastnesses of the Amaranthans are still considered to be some of the most valuable and dangerous sites for adventuring; they had vast wealth and had created innumerable artifacts. It is said that there is somewhere a desert wasteland, at the center of which is a huge black obelisk engraved with the names of all those deities slain during the God-War.