Due to the Grim nature of the Corrupted Three, they learned to lie and to hide their Grim nature from their fellows. Their new creations of Chaos had a dread sentience and they fed on death and Radiant power. These new types of Grim beings are what we now in general call Demons. The Corrupted Three thought the Demons would serve them forever. But the most powerful of those they had created with pure Chaos took control of the lesser creatures and eventually turned them all on the Corrupted Three. Like a Black Widow on her husband, the Demon Lords sent their horde of Grim creatures to attack their creators. The demons tore into the remaining Radiant energy still within the Corrupted Three. The Radiant energy was like a nectar that the demon’s one sided nature craved to consume. The Corrupted Three’s Radiant side was consumed completely. What remained of their sentience was torn and shredded. The largest portion of the shredded sentience fled the World into the empty darkness of the Universe to fester and plot. But the many smaller pieces escaped into the World. These became spirits which roamed the spirit world and attached themselves to grim places and objects in the World. These Grim spirits continue to corrupt the world with their malice to this day.

The War of the Demons and the Gods

Then the Demons discovered the other Beings, the ones who had not been unbalanced. They attacked and fed on the Being’s Radiant energy, which was a banquet of unprecedented power to them. Unaware of this threat and weakened in power from their efforts of creation, the Beings were overwhelmed by this sudden and unexpected attack. Weakened from what they had given of themselves to create the World, they were sorely hurt in the opening skirmish. They were not used to war, because up until now they had no enemies. To counter the attack of the demons they tried one last ditch effort, and used all their Grim power in an attempt to destroy the demons. But this was their undoing, for they lost the balance of their Radiant and Grim minds. Without the balance of their Grim side, their Radiance could not be contained and what was left of the Beings was torn apart. Each small remaining Radiant piece became a spirit that wandered the world, with varying amounts of sentience and memory. In time these remnants became individual Radiant spirits that forgot their beginnings. Although they had been much reduced, they were at times still powerful sources of power. Each supreme consciousness that had come together through random chance over eons to form one of the Beings was undone, scattered as pale shadows of their former glory throughout the World that they had created.

Without the Beings to continue to feed their hunger, the insatiable demon horde turned on the creations of the now Dead Gods. They began to feed on the Radiant side of the humans.

What once was a world of peace was now permeated with the Grim power of the Demons and the spirits of the Corrupted Three. It took many years, and many lives before balance was restored.

The Time of Darkness

We call this period the time of Darkness. Scholars believe that this was a time when there was no order and demons ran amok through the world. Scarce human groups banded together in small enclaves and tried to hide from the minions of the hellish Darkhalls. By night, demons came up out of the darkness to feed on human suffering. There was no art, no society, no enjoyment, just survival. It is unknown how long humans toiled under this blanket of nightly death and destruction. It went on until a lone grieving human whose family had been killed by demon hordes crept into the heart of darkness to exact revenge. Peran Tremora went down into the realm of the demons, the Darkhalls. He reached the Creation Crystal where the demons had hidden it away since taking it from the Dead Gods. Peran knew of the crystal, for legend said that the Dead Gods created this crystal to make the one World.

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