War of the Gods

Tens of tousands of years ago, lost in the mists of time the gods of the outer planes began ot get restless. The evil gods moved to conquer to realms of the others. No one was able to make real progress on either side but the conflict threatened to tear the outer planes apart.

War of the Gods
Lead by the evil god Hextor the evil gods plotted to conquer the whole of the outer planes. Huge armies of outsiders were raised up to assualt the other planes. As war raged across all the known lands neither side was able to gain an upper hand. For thousands of years the conflict stretched until the neutral gods Boccob, the god of magic and Obad -Hai the god of nature devised a plan. They tricked the warring gods to come to a battle on the plane of Arborea which is filled with huge plants and trees. Obad-Hai caused the trees themselves to raise up and entangle the warring gods. While they were bound Boccob banished them each to their home planes and created a seal that prevented each of them from leaving their respective home. This seal manifested itself as the material world. While the seal is in place each god must remain on his or her home plane, but they were still able to influence it by channeling some of their power into an avatar that can walk through the planes.

Creation of the Material World
After Boccob created the seal each of the gods sought to influence the new world in hopes of exploiting the seal and either finding a way to continue the war or keeping the other side from doing the same. The gods used their avatars to create living creatures in this new world. They created vast mountains and deep seas. The various creations of the gods took up their causes and eventually continues their ancient conflict in the newly created lands. Some of the most intelligent creatures were able to tap into the latent energies in the seal between planes which allowed them to learn arcane magic. Others asked their patron gods for the divine power to take up their cause. The most powerful among these learned rituals that allowed them to call the avatars of the gods into the world in order to take up the fight directly. The elves were the first race to master advanced magic and nearly conquered the entire continent before being driven back by a coalition of evil creatures. This was only the first in a series of great wars that shaped the history of Liendor.