Editing Midnight RPG - Chapter 30.111 (section)

==THE ULTIMATE LIE==

===Lore===
There is one truth, hidden from the eyes of man, fey and dragon alike. One truth, which would plunge the forces of Izrador, the Shadow in the North, into chaos. One truth, that has been hidden for millenia by the darkest forces on Aryth; one truth, hidden behind thousands of years of deceit. One truth, so absolute, so fatal, it would shatter the forces of darkness into a thousand fragmented pieces:  There is no god. Izrador is dead. All the gods are dead. The Sundering did not cast a god out of heaven. It was a divine cataclysm of heaven, in which all the gods perished. The Sundering was no war between divine beings. It was a war between god and mortal. Mortal won. Maybe the Elthedar grew arrogant, and believed they no longer needed their creators. Maybe mankind looked at the Elthedar and their gods, and his jealousy at the glory of this people turned to hate. Maybe the gods, fearful of the mortal race of Men, not of their creation, began the evil. Maybe the gods made the fatal mistake of making mortals fight their wars. There was a war, a war unlike any other, a war known now as the Sundering. In its final days, the power of mortals shred the divine realm apart, spilling dying gods from heaven. One of these burned through Aryth's skies. Izrador. In the final act of the gods, Izrador's body smashed into the world of the Elthedar, scarring it one final time. Then, there was silence.

'''<font color="990066">Bill's Question:</font>''' What is the source of this information?  Anything about ''how'' mortals won?  As in, what was actually done?
:  <font color=red>ANSWER:  The source?  You just "know" it from the merging of minds.  How mortals won?  Again, you know what you know.</font>






====How did this come to pass? There are many tales.====

Some say that the Elthedar were created by the gods, that they were their mortal descendants on Aryth. If so, they were the ungrateful progeny of the gods. How they did it is uncertain, but as the Elthedar race grew and prospered, they came to realize one thing: They had no need for the gods. Like discontent heirs, tired of seeing their condescending, all-knowing parents make their decisions, they went to war on their creators. They won. They never had time to celebrate their victory. As the gods died, the fabric of the very world was torn and shaken, and the event known as the Sundering came to pass. The Elthedar race died with their divine parents. Their own twisted progeny now walks Aryth as elf and dwarf, gnome, dunni and orc.

'''<font color="990066">Bill's Question:</font>''' I forget, is dunni another name for gnome?
:  <font color=red>ANSWER:  Dunni is another word for Halflings.  It's the word they call themselves.  It means "the people" in their own tongue.</font>






====This may or may not be true. Some claim another tale.====

These scholars claim the Sundering were not an act of the Elthedar. The Children of the Gods loved their parents. They were not alone on Aryth, however. In other lands, the race of Man grew. It looked at the Elthedar, their gods and their glory, and they felt envy. Man had no gods, no glory. Every day was a bitter struggle for survival. Envy soon turned to jealousy, jealousy to hate. Hate to rage. A unified, primal rage that grew so powerful mankind was able to do the unthinkable. They may have been a primitive race, but they were powerful nonetheless. Mankind blasphemed against the gods, stormed the cities of the Elthedar, and brought about the Sundering.

'''<font color="990066">Bill's Question:</font>''' From what I remember, the humans came to Eredane long after the sundering and only ever encountered the "twisted progeny" of the elthadar.  Is this new information supporting a pre-dornish invasion?  Or does this support evidence of elthadar in Pelluria?
:  <font color=red>ANSWER:  Good question!  Unfortunately I can't answer.  It's part of the mystery.  You can consider this "new" information though.</font>






There are other stories too. The truth is lost in time.