The Underworld Rebellion
When Ugrach's son slew the god of Death, Thoth, the Divine called a moot trial to decide Slith's fate. Ugrach raced to his son's aid, striking a bargain with the gods by which his son would be punished but not executed, to be locked afterwards in the Underworld, while Ugrach himself abdicated as Lord of the Undead and took over Thoth's role in the guidance of souls within the Halls of Death.
The sudden absence of Ugrach, who had ruled the Underworld for untold centuries, coupled with the ascension of Slith, who was unable to properly govern on his own, created a vacuum of power in the kingdom of undeath. The Ur'Vampires, lieutenants of equal power and rank under the former king, vied now for superiority over each other, forming factions with the intention of becoming closest to the incapacitated new king and thus more easily carry their own agendas. Before long, however, others, strangers to the Underworld, would join the fray as well.
In the end, the list of competing factions would look something like this:
- Magister Dominar --- Who sought to expand the influence of the Underworld to the Material Plane.
- The Ur'Vampires Tizane and Zigana---- who sought to enhance the physical and mental prowess of creatures both undead and not, and who wished to take their experiments further in order to progress and change their kingdom as well as the overworld with the help of the Soulbleed and the Nexus.
- The Ur'Vampires Asztrik and Prioska ----- who sought as well to enhance the physical prowess of the creatures they exposed to the Nexus, bolstering the power of their undead.
- The Death Knight Lord Kemnast and Ur'Vampire Gerzson ---- who sought to keep other factions from controlling the Soulbleed Nexus, and to keep it from misuse.
- The Vampire Lord Zsarachnor ---- who wished to become advisor to Slith on the basis of having served as his advisor during the Wars of Humanity, despite the fact that he had once been exiled by Ugrach, and was considered unwelcome by every other member of the undead nobility.
- The Vampiress Belladona ---- who wished to become Queen of the Underworld, though she had no real claim to title, apparently being driven mostly by the wish to thwart her old nemesis Zsarachnor
Each city state was promised that if there faction would would win they would honour there agreement by Divine Mandate.
The city of Ashtan joined forces with the Tizane and Zigana seeking there knowledge on how to alter there creatures prowess. The city of Targossas joined forces with the Vampire Lord Zsarachnor who promised the to them to guide them to the Holy Phoenix. The city of Hashan joined forces with Asztrik and Prioska who promised to lend there knowledge on the undead to help the city better understand the Sunderlands and help control the beings there. The village of Eleusis joined forces with Kemnast and Gerzson who promised to protect the Soulbleed from the the other factions and to keep the Underworld in check from affecting the Material Plane.
The city of Mhaldor and the city of Cyrene choose not ally themselves with any faction, but rather the individual citizens were given a choice of who they rather fight for and each of the citizens joined different factions.
Before the fighting started, the Magister Dominar withdrew from the war, plotting in achieving his goal in some other fashion, thus leaving only 5 factions.
In order to help facilitate each faction he left he faction in the hands of a capable demigod, Hanindir, the Aureate Savant, Ulerin, the Artificer, Rhivona, the Toxotes of Woe, Flaris, the Servant Tactician, and Pindara, Advocate of Desolation. Each demigod lead each of the factions to in a series of tests and collections in first to set up a portal to the Underworld, and then to help set up supplies and defenses that would help in the upcoming battle. In the very last phase of the battle, a war brought between the many factions in many battlefields that assaulted and defending there forts and auxilary fortresses. With no winner in sight yet, the battle continue to rage on.