First Age

The First Age is the time when the gods entered the world, Gammara, and began creating the races, mythical creatures, servitors and lifeforms to populate the world.

It ends with the Nightmare Invasion and 400 years later the Second Age begins. During this time there 56 gods.

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Introduction to the First Age
"In the beginning, the world was dark.

It was He that saw the world. He, the Father-God and Maker of Worlds. The Omni. The All.

He spoke a word and the sun was born. The world knew light. The Omni began the long task of making the world. He made the moon, he forged the stars, and his breath became the atmosphere. His hand shaped the lands of the world and then he called water to it, and the seas were born. He gazed upon his creation and smiled. The world was unfinished, but it was not he that would complete it.

The Omni called to his children. From the unco]untable numbers of the divine came few. They would walk this world. They would shape it. Their children would live upon it, and their actions would change it forever.

The Gods would unknowingly make a masterpiece.

The Omni watched, and waited."

Thus, the First Age of Gammara's Story began.

Areas of Gammara in the First Age

 * 1) Môsôoriku
 * 2) Eternus
 * 3) Alabastra
 * 4) Five Isles
 * 5) Old Empire
 * 6) Iron Kingdom
 * 7) Magocracy
 * 8) Free Cities
 * 9) Spectropolis
 * 10) Boquabia
 * 11) Forbidden Isle
 * 12) Northern Sea

Overgods

 * Crav
 * Gilgamesh
 * Hazet
 * Mik Hael
 * Mina
 * The Watchman
 * Uburra-Namall
 * Waverider
 * Zaya

Major Gods

 * Anima
 * Bahamut
 * Dephos
 * Deva
 * Drazel
 * Grace
 * Gravas
 * Illusia
 * Jassi and Jissei
 * Khadai
 * Kyuuketsu
 * Lily & Kyouko
 * Lore
 * Magnas
 * Suna
 * The Reasonable
 * The Veteran
 * Yojimbo

Minor Gods

 * Bazul
 * Coral
 * Fuujin
 * Raijin
 * Sentinels
 * Seven-Sin Sisters
 * Sonia
 * The Babysitter
 * Von Trapt

Demi-Gods

 * Gehenna-Bound
 * Azure Dragon
 * Black Turtle
 * Pink Hydra
 * Red Bird
 * White Tiger
 * Mela
 * Sprites

Events


The Creatures Created at This Time
General flora and fauna, Kitsune, Tanuki, Dragons, Dragonborn, Goliaths, Imps, Draemar, Durhian, Giant Sharks, Succubi and Incubbi, Dwarves, Fishfolk, and Undine.

The World Begins
The First Age began with the gods arriving on Gammara.

The gods arrived in this order:
 * 1) Mina
 * 2) Gilgamesh
 * 3) Crav
 * 4) Zaya
 * 5) Hazet
 * 6) Waverider
 * 7) Uburra-Namall

Almost immediately, they began shaping the areas that they started at as they wished.

As she arrived, Mina began by creating plains, life to go along with it, and then her mythical creatures. Next was Gilgamesh who, after creating his Dragons and races, sowed his lands with food and water for them and encouraged conflict, and he raised Gilgamesh the Second from among the Dragonborn as his first hero to lead the builders of what would become Eternus. Gilgamesh possessed Gilgamesh the Second for his body immediately upon the Hero's creation. Third was Crav, who began by reforming the land in his territory to create a mountain in the center with desert on one side and forests on the other, the base of what would become Alabastra. After the Craftsman, Zaya descended upon the world and landed on the islands to the west, the Five Isles, forming swamps and the appropriate life for that terrain, including crows.

After some minor thought, Mina uses some more of her power to form the third race on the world, the Imps, to build up her area of the world, the future Môsôoriku. As she does so, Hazet made his appearance in the world, south of Môsôoriku, north of the Five Isles, covering his lands with tall waving grass and creating the Draemar to build his lands up, starting with a walled city that would later become the capital of the Old Empire. Simultaneously, Crav finally decided to make his race, the Durhians from clay to spread across his lands and craft.

As the Durhians spread out, Crav decided to journey and entered the area that Mina was in, admiring the design of her Imps as he does so. This was when Waverider chose to come. And enter she did with a splash! Her first creations in this newlyborn world were general sea-life and the intelligent Giant Sharks before going around to survey her domain. As Crav wandered around, Mina took notice of him and struck up a short conversation with him before being distracted as Waverider neared her lands. It would be these first meetings of the Gods that would result in Mina and Waverider being enemies and Crav being friendly to all other Gods. However, a peace was made as Mina agreed not to create any sea-based youkai and keep her water-based ones out of the seas. As the drama went on, Zaya created for herself the first Divine Artifact on Grammara.

After her encounter with Waverider, Mina took the time to create yet another race, the Succubi and Incubbi, giving them the power to create illusions as they wished. As she does so, Crav formed the first religion of Gammara among the Durhians and Hazet created Dwarves to speed up the construction of his empire as it had slowed due to the Draemar not being highly skilled at it.

As the building of nations begins, Uburra-Namall descended upon the world and claimed the western-most lands that would later become Boquabia. She formed the lands, creating everything from mountains and hills to plains and forests as well as lakes with crystalline water for her future races, before crying out, "THIS IS MINE! I MADE IT FOR MYSELF!" While the Goddess of Beauty crowed in joy, Zaya formed yet another race on Grammara, the Fishfolk and Crav created the first easily noticeable sacred spot on the young world as the Durhians spread, a giant replica statue of himself with an altar at the top of a mountain. At this time, Waverider was troubled that her seas were not safe enough and to protect them, created the first Servitors, the Undine. During this time, Gilgamesh formed mountains across his lands, split the Dragonborn into several tribes warring against one another and raised a hero among the Goliaths, Lo-Kag, all before creating the first plane, the Plane of Heroes. As this is finished, Gilgamesh had his Dragonborn build boats so as to find and explore other lands. However, the Undine quickly find and massacre the unfortunate Dragonborn.

The Watchman's Power
The second wave of gods entering the world at this time:
 * The Watchman
 * Mik Hael

Gods Created at This Time

 * Bazul

Creatures Created at this Time
Architects, Endreakians, Graeciourum, Watchers, Steel Giants, Genasi, and Shardmind.

First Blood
As the Dragonborn met their fate at sea, the Watchman made his appearance on Gilgamesh's land, inquiring as to why he favored the Dragonborn over the Goliaths before taking notice of the slaughter in the seas and roaring for an answer for the deaths. As he did so, Gilgamesh requested the presence of the creator of the Undine to make their appearance and Mina noted the slaughter of the Dragonborn and flies to Gilgamesh's lands in order to find out who made the Dragonborn themselves. Meanwhile, the Watchman debated philosophy with Gilgamesh as he pulled an Undine out of the water, questioning its actions in destroying the boats. As he does so, a Giant Shark popped out of the ocean and told the Watchman, "You'll do no good to talk to her. Undines are frighteningly stupid." In the ensuing conversation, the Giant Shark agreed to take the Watchman and Gilgamesh to where Waverider was questioning several Undine.

The Watchman began his conversation with Waverider by asking for justification for the slaughter of the Dragonborn. In response, Waverider gave an answer of slight rage at having to justify herself. At this time, Crav, bored with nothing to do, built for himself the Architects to help himself with crafting. Meanwhile, the Watchman debates philosophy yet again, only this time with Waverider as Gilgamesh threatened to wage war with Waverider over his dead Dragonborn unless he recieved reparations of some kind. As Waverider began to enter a state of sea-tossing rage, the Giant Shark, Bazul, informed her that she was outnumbered and calming down, she asks to know what type of reparations. When asked to give freedom to others upon her seas, Waverider screams out loud and makes Bazul into a god, telling him to make any agreement necessary to keep the Watchman and Gilgamesh away from her. After she leaves, Bazul makes an agreement with the Watchman that when any ship enters the Northern Seas they would hear the Undine sing, as well any ship that throws bloody meat into the sea would be protected by a Giant Shark until they leave and in exchange, the Watchman agreed to make the Giant Sharks capable of growing two legs to walk upon the land should the need ever arise. He also makes an agreement with Gilgamesh to create finer boats than the ones that were lost and deliver them within one cycle of the moon. Meanwhile, Zaya and Uburra-Namall had their fun watching the drama of the situation.

As Gilgamesh returned, he found Mina awaiting him to inquire into talk of whether he had met other gods beyond the two of them and they exchanged their knowledge before flying off so that Gilgamesh could view Mina's lands just as she had viewed his. Meanwhile, the Watchman watched the Durhians and requested a meeting with Crav at his mountain top altar.

It was at this moment that the God of Chaos, Mik Hael, descended upon Gammara, the last of the Overgods to do so. Landing upon the second of the northern continents, what would later become the Forbidden Island, Mik Hael  created a giant tree, forming the Endreakians from droplets of water from the tree's branches and Graeciourum from the shadows of the land. As he finished, he sent them off to explore the world and left to survey Gammara himself.

At this time, the Watchman and Crav conversed, speaking of the work that the Durhians had accomplished so far as Mina and Gilgamesh return to find that the Imps, Succubi and Incubi had managed to build a small village, which surprised Gilgamesh, who had already assumed that they would be destructive, a side effect of his Domain of Heroism which caused him to view demons negatively.

After a month, the Fishfolk had built themselves many nets and boats, often presenting Zaya with regular offerings of food and fish, the Great Sharks arrived in Gilgamesh's lands with the powerful ships as had been promised, and the Old Empire flourished. The Capital City had a giant pyramid-temple within and in response to the unsettled feelings of the Dwarves and Draemar, Hazet formed a great wall to the north that would prevent Mina's creations from crossing it. Gilgamesh returned to his lands, finding the ships awaiting him and released sea-life to fight the Giant Sharks so that they would have a feast, before releasing a wave of Heroism to inspire all the races of the world for a day. As the wave passed her lands, Mina formed the first of her planes, the Plane of Gehenna, future home of the Gehenna-Bound. During this time, the Watchman had been living amongst the Durhians after explaining his entire past to Crav. Upon a whim, the Watchman forms the Watchers to hunt down injustice of all kinds wherever it may lie. Deciding to retire from Gammara until his presence was needed once more, Crav created for himself the World of Crafting, a plane that would make any artisan shed tears in joy.

Watchman's Philosophy
After making his Watchers, the Watchman came up with the thought that he needed to form a philosophy, creating masks that rained down upon the world with a message. The message was:

As each god found the masks, their reactions varied. Gilgamesh's response was to inspire the Goliaths into taking slaves from skirmishes won against the Dragonborn. Waverider responded with a small storm near Mina's lands as Bazul was beseiged to read the message aloud to the Undine, confusing them even further until he told them they had a friend and to go back to work. Zaya blew the masks away, preventing them from being seen by her Fishfolk. The greatest response was in the Old Empire however, where the masks caused dissension among the lower classes, leading to imprisonment of the dissenters by police newly created by Hazet, Steel Giants. Order, however, was restored in time.

Months after the masks rained down, the Durhians began to spread across the world in well-made boats and hot-air balloons. As they did so, the Watchman left Crav's lands, giving him a machine for his races to use in the future: the Printing Press. In exchange for the printing press, Crav agreed to the Watchman's request of spreading the idea of the freedom of the press among all the world. Meanwhile, Uburra-Namall finally woke up and decided she was bored as Gilgamesh took his boats and traveled south to end up on Crav's lands, roaring out for the owner of the land to show himself, before being asked by Crav to speak quietly so as to not disturb the Durhians. The two spoke shortly of their lands with one another before Gilgamesh requested an alliance and offered to create a hero for Crav, under Crav's control of course. Crav accepted and the two decided to create a bridge to connect their lands for all time. After that, in order to boast, Gilgamesh formed a giant mountain in the center of his lands with a portal to a new plane, the Plane of the Genasi. In addition, he made his first Divine Artifact, the Well of Eternity, which overflowed with pure mana. As well, to guard the Well of Eternity, Gilgamesh formed two races, the Genasi and the Shardmind, before Crav took his leave to work on other projects.

Meanwhile, Mik Hale decided that the world sickened him and rather than leave, created a giant living crystal before pulling off two pieces to make himself a pair of longswords and ordering the Endreakians and Graeciourum to explore the world, but not long after leaving their lands, the Endreakians soon hear the warning song of the Undine.

Upon leaving Crav's lands, the Watchman decided to visit the one spot his masks had not fallen, starting up a conversation with Zaya about why his masks had not fallen on the Five Isles. The answer that Zaya gave was simple: It had been Waverider who had been blustering about and sulking for a while. The two then entered into an agreement, the Watchman would investigate the matter of Hazet and Zaya would spread The Message to her Fishfolk.

Major Conflict Begins
Not long after arriving on Hazet's turf, the Watchman found one of his Watchers held in the grip of a Steel Giant and quickly freed it before granting sentience to every Steel Giant and filling its mind with thoughts and questions. As the miracle reached every single one of the Steel Giants, they freed all of the Dwarves and Draemar in the prisons, lead them to the Demonwall and began the loose nation of cities that would become known as the Free Cities. As his people left him, Hazet fell to the ground mentally broken and spiraled down into madness... Only to have the Watchman appear before him and tell him that he was the one at fault for his people leaving him because he had imprisoned them. The Watchman then took his leave after asking why Hazet had done what he had done and recieving a nonintelligible response. He then questioned whether or not what he had done was right, stripping a God of their domain before telling his Watchers to keep an eye on Hazet, the new Free Cities, and Zaya. The Watchman then flew over to Uburra-Namall's lands and laid down to sleep in the grass.

New Gods Created at this Time

 * Coral
 * Dephos
 * Bahamut
 * Yojimbo

New Creatures Created During This Time
Endreakian Sea Serpent, Yukionna and Yukiotoko, Raiju, Nekomata, and Sea Hags.

War on the Horizon
As the events wound to a  finish in the Old Empire, Gilgamesh sent out a few Dragonborn to aid in helping solve conflicts in Crav's lands, Mina took the time to make her Divine Treasures, one of which would never actually be used, as well as the Mugen-no-Magatama, and Bazul braved the wrath of his mistress in order to have an Undine, Coral, be made into the Goddess of Undine.

Meanwhile, the Endreakians in the Northern Sea were ripped to pieces before reforming into a giant sea serpent as Mik Hael formed a land bridge to Mina's lands and created Dephos, the Goddess of Creation and Destruction. As the drama ensued in the Northern Sea, Gilgamesh named a hero among each of his races and formed the Council of Heroes to guide them. Mik Hael then flew over to where the sea serpent is and calmed it down before using it to 'sail' south to where Gilgamesh's lands lay as crowds of Undine watched, summoning Coral to deal with the intruder. As Mik Hael noticed that Coral was watching him, he hailed her down and tried to get an audience with Waverider, but to no avail. Instead, he left a single Endreakian with her for whatever purposes that the sea gods wished to use it for in exchange for making sure that none of the others were attacked.

Mik Hael next went to the lands of Gilgamesh and finding no one to greet him, he used his living crystal to find Gilgamesh as it had perpetuated the area beneath every single land. As he approached, Gilgamesh moved to meet him. Meanwhile, Durhian miners found the crystal beneath Crav's lands and listening to their prayers, he examined it, before removing it from his land as he found it distasteful. The meeting between Gilgamesh and Mik Hael resulted in a conversation about the traits of the Endreakians.

Alone on her lands, Mina gave some thought to the matter and formed her third race, the Yukionna and Yukiotoko, from snow, then created the Raiju and the Nekomata to protect her lands even more than before. As they talked, Gilgamesh and Mik Hael came upon a group of Dragonborn fighting off Graeciourum, reacting instantly, Gilgamesh rips to pieces all but one and grabs it for interrogation. Mik Hael admits almost instantly to being the creator of the Graeciourum, much to Gilgamesh's anger.

Meanwhile, Hazet's old lands fractured and fell apart at an amazing rate, forming and destroying new city-states within months. The only stable spots were the center of the Old Empire, the Magocracy and the Free Cities, defended by giants. Simultaneously, Zaya formed her second race, the Sea Hags; they would spread through the world, peddling magicks that the world had never seen before to gain power, wealth and influence...

As the others began their plotting, Uburra-Namall just sat on her lands and started playing around, creating beautiful jewels, everything from quartz to topaz and diamonds. Suddenly, the Watchman bolts up, having had his bed of grass turned to rocks and spotting Uburra-Namall, walked over to her for a conversation. The two talked for a while about the future laws and treatments of Uburra-Namall's future races. As Crav began to move to meet the other gods of Gammara, a Watcher appeared before him with the news that a northern continent required his aid and lead his ships to where they were needed.

Meanwhile, talks between Gilgamesh and Mik Hael spiraled downwards with Mik Hael giving an Endreakian to Gilgamesh, but to no avail, Gilgamesh still closed his borders to all foreign races along with creating the Spirits of Possible Heroes to defend his lands. The chain reaction set off resulted in the Watchers calling the Watchman back to deal with the situation in Gilgamesh's lands. Gilgamesh then raised one of his Dragons to become the God of Heroism, Bahamut, and raised one of his Servitors to become the God of Conflict, Yojimbo. To Yojimbo, he gave the black blade, Muramasa, and to Bahamut, he gave the Well of Eternity.

Gods Created During This Time

 * None

Creatures Created During This Time
Shadow-Scarred, Shifters and Milteos.

Dusk of the Shadow-Scarred
Back at home in Môsôoriku, Mina created the race that would become her greatest: the Shadow-Scarred. Mina then gave them the power to control shadows and to travel through them instantly. From among the Shadow-Scarred, she raised the first to be created as her dark hero, Kagehana, who would later be known by the title "The Twilight's Flower."

Later, upon hearing from her races that Gilgamesh had locked out all outsiders from his lands, Mina sent Kagehana  to straighten out the situation with Gilgamesh's people. As she left, however, Kagehana took the Mugen-no-Magatama with her in case its power was needed. Immediately reacting to the appearance of Kagehana  on Gilgamesh's lands, the Heroes moved to intercept her, but were stopped by Bahamut, who in exchange for allowing the races of Mina to trade with those of Gilgamesh on the borders of his lands, required Kagehana to slay a rogue Dragon for him. As she found the Dragon's den and hid in it, Kagehana was approached by Yojimbo, who demanded that Kagehana owe him a favor, otherwise her quest would become a lot harder. When Kagehana refused to give in to his demands, Yojimbo raised his voice, causing a group of Goliaths, including Lo-Kag to come over and see what was wrong. On Yojimbo's commands, the Goliaths began battle with Kagehana, eventually leading to a one-on-one between Kagehana and Lo-Kag before Bahamut intervened mentally and sent the Goliaths elsewhere, so Kagehana's quest would not be interrupted. Kagehana then returns to her position and slew the Dragon with a claymore to the belly and neck, before returning to where she had met Bahamut the first time. Upon confirming that the Mina's races would be allowed trade with Gilgamesh's, she returned home to Mina and recieved the benefit of the first Divine Law among Mina's races, the Anti-Aging Law, and use of the Shadowscape for the Shadow-Scarred before being given the task of establishing an alliance and trade with the Free Cities. Meanwhile, Gilgamesh created the second-to-last of his races: the Shifters. As Kagehana  left for the Free Cities with three of her fellow Shadow-Scarred, she was given one last gift by Mina: Kagenobara and Kara no Magatama.

As the Durhians realized that they were not made to do mining, Crav came to a decision and made the second of his races to help them: the Milteos. Meanwhile, Gilgamesh raised a monument to his heroes and formed yet another Servitor to aid his races in combat. Upon his Dragonborn finding Uburra-Namall's lands, he sent word to Crav that plentiful materials could be found on an island to the north. However, just as quickly, Uburra-Namall hid the precious gems within the land, to be found only by those with the patience to retrieve them, formed the rainbow, and added beauty and life to every single object on her lands as the Watchman watched her actions. As he did so, the Watchman learned from a Watcher that the Dragonborn slaves in Goliath territory had still not revolted against their captors and sped off to rectify the situation.

Reawakening of Hazet
As Kagehana and the other Shadow-Scarred attempted to teleport into the Free Cities, they were redirected to slightly outside one, in front of a Steel Giant. The giant quickly inquired into the purpose of Kagehana's group and being told their mission is diplomatic, allowed them entry, however Kagehana had had to store Kagenobara for a short while in the Shadowscape while they took a tour of the city, Bluebell with a sorceress, Amalia. As they did so, Mina finished work on an artifact that would make her heroes even matches for even the most experienced of heroes and  waited for Kagehana's return.

Meanwhile, the Watchman arrived in a Goliath camp with a bang, freeing the enslaved Dragonborn before being confronted by Yojimbo. The Watchman then entered the Plane of Heroes to talk with Gilgamesh. The two discuss matters for awhile before coming to the decision that if the Watchman were able to find a way to help the Goliaths be equals with the other races, then the slavery would stop. Wielding his divine powers, the Watchman blessed the Goliath race with extra fertility, formed a mighty mountain range in between the lands of the Goliaths and the Dragonborn with rich deposits of minerals and food, and introduced the concept of non-lethal tournaments to all of Gilgamesh's races. However, almost immediately, Yojimbo and Gilgamesh began plotting to keep the Watchman busy with other gods... specifically one who'd had dealings with him in the past...

The war in Hazet's territories had finally cooled down, resulting in three nations being formed: the Free Cities, the Iron Kingdom and a loose confederation of city states. No one, however, went anywhere remotely near the capital of the Old Empire, and it was to there that Yojimbo went, fully intent on awakening Hazet from his sleep and using him as a tool against the Watchman. Knocking out the guards, Yojimbo walked into the grand reception hall of Hazet's temple-palace with his next act being to curse Hazet into conflict to regain his lands under his rule, however, the attempt failed and Hazet rose once more unleashing his godly power to create for himself a golden spear to attempt to destroy Yojimbo where he stood, then to go conquer Gilgamesh's lands. Before he can do so, Yojimbo formed a mountain in the middle of the temple-palace and used its force to propel him back to Gilgamesh's lands.

Back in Bluebell, Amalia and Kagehana felt the release of power and split up; Amalia to inform those who needed to be informed in Bluebell of the development and Kagehana to alert Mina of the possibility of events to come. Mina quickly made the decision to send a group of Snow Children to Bluebell as an envoy to help them as needed and had Kagehana take the test of the mirror. Zaya noted the beginning of a divine war on her mirror and began to call back all the Sea Hags in Gilgamesh's lands to reduce the casualties among her creations. Hearing of Hazet's rage, Waverider immediately called together her Undine and struck up a temporary alliance with Hazet to take down Gilgamesh. As Hazet began to make his way to Gilgamesh's lands in the form of a towering giant, Gilgamesh took his races and had them form up for war as he, Bahamut, and Yojimbo prepared for divine combat. Learning of Hazet's re-awakening, the Watchman roared in anger at Gilgamesh's stupidity and flew off to aid him in the coming war. Failing to reason with Hazet and knowing he was too weak to stand between the two gods, he impotently left the scene of conflict.

First War of the Gods
Coming in at one end of Gilgamesh's lands came the towering Hazet with Waverider by his side as the double-pronged attack commenced with Undine attacking the other end of the island lead by Coral who held the newly-made Pearl Sword. As they emerged from the seas, the forces of Gilgamesh were redeployed to face them, but to no avail as they were quickly knocked back by Coral's divine power as fast as they came forth. Mina makes two Snow Children brought before her into her next two heroes as Kagehana finished her test. Kagehana and Mina slip through the shadows to appear before Gilgamesh and offer their aid before being told to go to the other end of the island and fighting the Undine off his lands. As Mina and Kagehana moved over to that end of the island, bringing with them large numbers of Mina's Mythical Creatures to aid in the fighting, the Watchman comes down and attempts to prevent as much blood from being shed among the combatants as possible. Simultaneously, Gilgamesh's forces advanced upon Hazet and Waverider to defeat them before they laid even a step upon his lands. Mina and the Watchman easily defeated Coral before attending to the wounded on the wrecked field as they talked philosophy. Mina then made her retreat from the war's fields with all of those she brought with her as the Watchman began to contemplate on the beach how to prevent a situation like the one he was in from occuring anymore. Forming for himself the Golden Dragonscale Armor and the Nexus Eye as Waverider and Hazet attacked with the force of the Golden Spear and shrieking lightning, Gilgamesh blasted back at them with the full force of his, Bahamut's and Yojimbo's powers in a wave of fire.

The clash of powers killed many mortals and Servitors in the field of battle, however, the two gods fared badly and their domains and creations even worse. Half the Demonwall collapsed as those of Hazet's races fell in pain;  the creatures of the sea went into killing frenzies as the sea itself started raging uncontrollably. Hazet fell to the ground, shrunken and unconscious as Waverider went flying, eventually landing in Hazet's lands badly burnt and in pain.

New Gods Created During This Time

 * Lily & Kyouko
 * Khadai
 * Deva
 * Grace
 * Jassi and Jissei
 * Seven-Sin Sisters
 * Gravas
 * Magnas
 * Anima
 * Drazel
 * Mela
 * Kyuuketsu
 * Sprites
 * The Babysitter

New Creatures Created During This Time
Watchdogs, Humans, Salamanders, Tenka, Ondine, Sylphs, Paladins, Antilaw, Golems, Bright-Singers, Wave-Folk,Oreads, Tengu, Vampires, Hengeyokai, and Boquabians.

The Gods and Mortals Rebuild
Having returned to her lands, Mina realized that she could not defend her lands all by herself and created two goddesses to aid her in that endeavor: Lily & Kyouko the guardians of the future Môsôoriku. Over at Bluebell, Koriko and Fubuki help with disaster relief, but their powers were close to being exhausted and thus sent for help from Mina, who in the end made the decision to go herself. With the battle over, Gilgamesh began rebuilding his lands and began to talk with the Watchman, who finally made the decision to create some way for all the gods to get together on a regular basis and keep things from reaching a critical point again.

As they worked on rebuilding the city, Mina sent Kagehana to the Watchman and Gilgamesh to get more help for Bluebell and help they brought. The reconstruction and aid in Bluebell sped up immensely once aid from not just Gilgamesh, Mina and the Watchman arrived, but also when the Sorcerors of the Free Cities arrived on scene. To help find survivors, the Watchman created his Watchdogs, and also to find the missing gods, Waverider and Hazet. As they worked, Mina and the Watchman discussed the consequences of a god's fall and why it should not happen again.

Meanwhile, in a village in the Iron Kingdom, Waverider was found by villagers and adopted into the house of an elderly Dwarf, later she was discovered to have had amnesia. As well, Hazet began a long and agonizing journey back home in the form of an elderly Draemar. Using their noses, the Watchdogs quickly found their targets, the missing gods and stayed by them until they could get the gods back to the Watchman. Waverider, however, would be a long time in coming due to her injuries.

During the reconstruction, Uburra-Namall had made from a glowing orb a goddess, Khadai, who immediately started exploring the world, mostly around the Demonwall. As well, yet more projects had been started and finished by Gilgamesh's pantheon: the Grand Mind and the King's Treasury. Crav had made 5 new artifacts to spread amongst his races: the Hammer of Crav, the Inspiration Totem, the Resource Totem, the Clarity Goggles, and the Fear Stone, before walking among his races disguised as a mortal to watch how prosperous they'd become. Gilgamesh next began a search for Bazul and Coral once he made a protected oasis in the raging waters of the sea, however his search ended up being futile as the two gods had seemingly disappeared. Instead, he returned to his lands and made sure that his lands were well before creating the last of his races, the Humans, the Goddess of the Body, Deva, and an Elemental Forge, before taking control of the body of his hero Naram and leaving his lands to see what other repairs needed to be done in Bluebell.

Meanwhile, Mik Hael stepped foot upon Mina's lands and was immediately stopped by Lily and Kyouko. The two attempt to make him leave peacefully, however when he doesn't Mina is summoned to help them remove him from her lands. As she made her way over to where they are, Mina formed the Heart of Gravity, Twin Fangs of Fire and Ice.

While working on clearing the rubble from Bluebell, the Watchman was interrupted by a reporter by the name of Pessimal Tomes who began pestering him for answers as to how all the death anbd destruction had begun in the first place, but recieves an answer along the lines of "We will release a statement of what happened later, once we have all gotten together and discussed what happened," much to the reporter's amusement. Later, he interrupts Koriko and Fubuki as they work and is told that he can leave before someone gets hurt from him being a distraction by Kagehana. As Gilgamesh continued working in the body of Naram, he created the Hero's Mark and the Dragon's Crown, and the Watchman sent off two Watchers to find out where his Watchdogs that were searching for Waverider and Hazet were.

Gathering up bags of jewels, Uburra-Namall visited Crav's lands, striking up a conversation with him after hours of walking and the two talked about how Crav could use Uburra-Namall's gems to create many beautiful things in the future before creating the most beautiful of statues together with the gems to guard her lands. Noting how bad the situation was, Zaya decided to pick up where Gilgamesh had left off and search for Bazul.

As he waited for Mina to make her appearance, Mik Hael formed a few Divine Artifacts in preparation for future fights: the Cross of Mik Hael, the Gauntlets of Chaos and Order, and the Barrels of Void and Power. Upon arriving, Mina kicked Mik Hael off her land before returning to her duties of repairing Bluebell. As he returned to his lands, Mik Hael, tired of distrust, manipulated his crystal, creating a dome in the form of a crystal castle, isolating himself from the rest of the world until he decided to rejoin it.

Several days later, the gods stopped their aid to the Free Cities allowing them to grow as they needed. Meanwhile, Mik Hael decided to make more races to populate his lands: the Salamnders led by Juggler, the Tenka (children born of Dephos), the Ondine led by Archiver, the Sylphs led by Acrobat, and the Paladins (those made to bond with the Tenka). In addition, he created the second addition to his pantheon, Grace, the Goddess of Death, giving her the Scythe of Eons as her weapon. Hazet finally made his move, flying over the waters back to his lands, with the Watchdog accompanying him, as the Watcher sent to find him came upon Zaya searching for Bazul instead. The two quickly found Bazul not long after, and he pledged his time to finding Coral so that the two could try to find out where Waverider had ended up.

Birth of Antilaw
As the others work upon their tasks, Mina forged the second of her blades, the Heart of Gravity, and took the Mugen-no-Magatama, the Kara no Magatama, the Twin Fangs of Fire and Ice, and the Yata-no-Kagami back. Laying each one in a different cardinal direction, she used their power to form and power the first Incarnate: Antilaw. To protect each of the Divine Artifacts, she then established the four major cities of the cardinal directions in her lands, however as Gilgamesh left Bluebell, he ran into Antilaw's power almost immediately and began to attempt to break through to find out why it was there. Lily and Kyouko quickly see to him and he leaves after a brief conversation. Mina then left her lands to go exploring and see how the rest of the world fared.

At home, Crav formed his first mythological creature to help others and be friends to all: the Golems. He then left his lands for the time being to explore and see how the rest of the world had advanced in his absence.

Spectropolis Rises
Remembering that there was one unclaimed continent left of those that he knew of, the Watchman began flying straight to it in order to put his plan to unite all the gods in action. Landing on the continent, the Watchman first created a giant lake in the center of the desert with five rivers flowing from it towards the sea. The Watchman next  took the sands of the desert and formed them into the city of Spectropolis, the one spot where all Gods could meet as equals. Feeling the power of the Watchman forming Spectropolis' powers, Mik Hael warped space-time and traveled from his continent to the dome in the center of Spectropolis and introduced himself to the Watchman. Coming upon Spectropolis, Crav entered and began admiring the architecture that he could see everywhere. As they began to talk, the Watchman took a quick count of the chairs in the room and realized that there had been 14 Gods who had entered Gammara since it had first been created. Simultaneously, Mina, Crav and Hazet, who had accidentally flown in the wrong direction, entered the room and took seats to discuss matters with the Watchman.

They all began discussing what their goals for the world were as Mina introduced the creation of Antilaw to them all. The other gods reacted in various ways to the news of Antilaw's creation, but leave her to keep it as she wished. As Zaya arrived in the room, the gods finally came to the decision that if a great threat to all ever came to be, then they would put aside all their petty conflicts and join together to fight or parley as one against the threat until it was ended. As they finished with talks and things began to twist towards Zaya's role in the Old Empire's fall and Mina began to draw on the sleeping Goddess's face, Gilgamesh finally tried to enter Spectropolis, however, as he attempted to do so. the land started to rumble. As the city itself had lowered his powers to that of a minor god's, he could not handle the five Divine Artifacts that he had on himself at that point and the Watchman took him outside the boundaries of Spectropolis to give him a quick course on the powers of the city. Gilgamesh then removed all of his Divine Artifacts, but one then reentered in order to participate in the meeting.

Meanwhile, Uburra-Namall and Khadai reformed Uburra-Namall's lands to be even more beautiful and placed the Precious Sentries at each of the four cardinal directions of her lands to alert her of intruders to her lands. the two then took the time to create the twin gods of Uburra-Namall's pantheon: Jassi and Jissei. The next group that she then formed was the Seven-Sin Sisters to aid them in the ruling of her lands. As well, Waverider helped the matronly Rada with household chores as Bazul and Coral calmed the raging seas as well as they could.

Back in Mina's lands, Lily and Kyouko established the University of Elements for any to attend as Mina excused herself shortly from the meeting where conflict was growing between Gilgamesh and Hazet and created the next two members of her pantheon, Gravas and Magnas, before returning to the meeting. The meeting quickly broke up with Hazet storming off as Gilgamesh and Mik Hael prepared to spar with Gilgamesh creating the latest addition to his pantheon, Anima with an accompanying Divine Artifact and Mik Hael creating one for Dephos and himself. The two then sparred with neither side the clear winner.

Peace Is Brought To The Northwest
Hazet returned to his races a new ruler and quickly spread peace-keepers to prevent further turmoil among his realm. To aid him in ruling his realm, he created Drazel, God of Legal Proceedings and Law, and Mela, Goddess of Secretarial Efforts as well as his first Avatar, Hazet Jr. In his lands, Crav observed his Durhians and for the first time decided to raise a hero from amongst them, Aox. Hazet Jr. quickly decided to go exploring, and ended up first in the lands of Crav, where he was quickly noticed by the god himself and engaged in an amusing conversation dealing with the lands they were from.

Hearing of the conditions of the sea, Waverider, still not knowing of her divinity, created the Wave-Folk in a moment of creativity. In a fit of boredom, Grace took the time to create yet another race, the Oreads led by Gardener as Mik Hael returned and brought forth the Plane of Dreams to increase his powers. In order to increase the power of her realm's defenses yet again, Mina formed the fifth of her elemental goddesses, Kyuuketsu, and for her and Gravas, Mina created the Tengu, Vampires, and the Hengeyokai, Kyuuketsu creating the heroes Kira and Taro the Blood Baron as she did so. Out of the desire to have their own mortals to rule over, Uburra-Namall's Pantheon decided to create the Boquabians to amuse themselves and rule over, but ended up answering the questions of a much more curious race than they had anticipated. On Gilgamesh's continent, in order to conserve energy for future projects, Bahamut took the Monument of Resurrection and combined it with the King's Treasury.

Meanwhile, the Watchman and Zaya engaged in an intellectual conversation. They were quickly interrupted by a Watcher who revered Zaya and was quickly made into a goddess by request, The Babysitter.

Prelude to the Tournament
On her lands, Mina established the first of her religions, one that would never be known by any of the other gods for as long as it would exist. Gilgamesh formed four Sprites to aid in the defense of his lands before entering the Plane of Heroes to name the Endreakian given to him long ago as his newest hero, Atlas. He then returned to Spectropolis and began work on the creation of an arena for a grand tournament...

Gods Created at This Time

 * Sentinels
 * Lore
 * Suna
 * Illusia
 * Monsterking
 * Fuujin
 * Raijin
 * Sonia
 * Sonia
 * Von Trapt

Creatures Created at This Time
Lycanthropes, Muffin, Gargoyles, Zombies, Nightmare Virus, Hippogriffs, Treants, Warp Stalkers, Minotaurs, Changelings, Goblins, Phoenix, Gryphon, Unicorn, Pegasus, Elves, Zombies, Light-Scarred, Kata, Homura, Vandals, Gremlins, Snorkel Giants, Mosquito Riders, Void Walkers, Spirit Titan, Face Stealers

The Princess of Stealth is Found
As she wandered around after the creation of her Vampires in Bluebell, Kyuuketsu was nearly pickpocketed by a human whom she quickly brought before Mina. The human was given an appraisal and handed the Cloak of Hiding before being made into the latest of Mina's heroes, Nayotake no Hime and taken to Kagehana for training. At the same time, as she was bored, Magnas decided to create the Lycanthropes and established for them the Cult of Fur.

Preparations Begin
Meanwhile, things began to heat up in preparation for the tournament to come as invitations were sent out to each God and Goddess in Gammara. As well, every single one of Mina's heroes took the test of the Mirror of Potential in order to prepare for the foes they'd be facing and Mina gave to Hime the Hydra Dagger as Mik Hael, Grace and Dephos created the beast Muffin, the (as they hoped) future destroyer of civilizations. Uburra-Namall brought to her Plane, five Boquabians: Tyran, Mina, Bo, Zai, and Revei for training to participate as experienced warriors in the tournament. However, Zaya merely sat back and prepared snacks for the coming tournament. The only non-God to recieve an invitation though was Pessimal Tomes, who immediately went into near hyperventilation as he thought of how much quality information there would be at the tournament.

As they prepared to leave for the tournament, Mina created an avatar, Mikoto, to go on before her in order to save spots at the tournament and gave to her the Artifact Icefire. Simultaneously, Gilgamesh's heroes left as he created the Sentinels to guard his lands. In order to keep the tournament and festival grounds safe, the Watchman created Servitors bound to Spectropolis in order to uphold its laws, the Witnesses. Uburra-Namall gifted her five heroes with the greatsword Babaraina, the twin tessen Perincessai, the mace Tereiein, the mallet Geranfeit'r, and the staff Victoraiyein all mundane weapons for now.

Arrivals
Mikoto arrived first at the grounds at Spectropolis, recieving an over elaborate welcome as the Babysitter christended the city for the first time as "Spectropolis." Upon the arrival of Gilgamesh, the Watchman was named to be the judge for the tournament and in exchange a halftime show is arranged with him facing the three Goliaths, Eglath, Vimak, and Nalla, from the slave quarry before. Meanwhile, Mik Hael left a few minutes later from his lands for the tournament with the first four Endreakians and the leaders of his elemental races, and upon arriving, Grace inquiring as to the Babysitter's presence. Not long after, the delegation from the Magocracy, the Free Cities and the Iron Kingdom arrived to only to be accosted with questions from the reporter, Pessimal Tomes, along with their overly large escort through the Northern Seas, Pike, before exchanging information with Mikoto on the events since the falling of the Demonwall. Simultaneously, Waverider arrived on a boat with Rada, the Watchdog sent to find her and her Watcher guardian as well.

As the mortals arrived, stalls were quickly set up, businesses began and criminals were quickly captured as the Babysitter went on a crazy shopping spree. Mik Hael returned home quickly before returning with Muffin to watch the tournament as Crav gave Aox a pep talk. Back at home, Mina created the Heart of Blood for Taro after his fight. Meanwhile, Mina the Sly was nearly put into jail, but was released when Mikoto paid her bail. Before the tournament started, Gilgamesh formed the last of his Gods within the Plane of Heroes to hold his King's Monument upon his back, Lore. He then made the announcement that the tournament would begin and people began to flood into the arena.

Tournament... Start!!!
The tournament started off with the first match of Bo the Quick and Thram as they entered the arena grounds.

Meanwhile, Mina's Pantheon quickly began work on creating an underground cave to house her next Divine Artifact, one that would encompass all of her lands and be the new storage area for the supporting artifacts of Antilaw. When everything was done, they moved everything down to the Illusory Labyrinth for safekeeping and Mina, Gravas, and Magnas left to attend the tournament.. Mik Hael made his way back to Spectropolis with Muffin and created for himself out of boredom, the Chaos Chains and the Mask of Mik Hael. Mela quickly sat down and began taking rapid notes on the fight, while back at home, the fighting had finally ended in Hazet's lands with the power solidifying around the Iron Kingdom, Old Empire, Magocracy and the Free Cities.

As the fight advanced, Crav became enamoured with Uburra-Namall as he drank lots of wine.

Bo the Quick vs. Thram
Thram began by launching into a spell, muttering words of power and making dramatic hand gestures. Thram soon came to a conclusion with his spell, causing Bo's clothes to start smoldering and ignite as Bo responded by starting to vibrate as he built up concentration to move faster. He then ran forward and walked Thram on the chin as the spell was finished, making the ground beneath Bo's feet turn into foot-deep mud. Bo then got out of the mud and began running around Thram, striking him with his staff on the chin and knocking him into the ground before beating him with a quick kick to the chin.

Rest Before the Second Fight
After Gilgamesh declared the winner as Bo the Quick, discussion began as to how good the fight had been and Aox began to get nervous about his chances in the tournament. As well, Mina's races and pantheon left in her lands began to work on building a temple to honor her and all of her pantheon, and still en route to Spectropolis, Mina created her mythical guardians of tombs and temples, the Gargoyles. Of course, being the good reporter he was, Pessimal Tomes got himself an exclusive interview with Bo the Quick after the match much to the hero's confusion.

Bored, Mik Hael left the arena grounds and began playing with Muffin.

Ten minutes after the fight between Bo the Quick and Thram, Revei the Brave and Jessex entered the field.

Revei the Brave vs. Jessex
The match began with a few strikes from Jessex that relied on naught but his strength and Revei relying on his power to fly, however as the fight continued it became clear that Jessex had the better understanding of combat as he would catch Revei bare-handed in mid-flight, then just throw him. In the end though, it was Revei who was the winner with a single mallet strike to Jessex's head.

Rest Before the Third Fight
Having finished her flight to get to Spectropolis, Mina took a quick break before marching to Spectropolis' boundaries and created the Zombies.

Outside the boundaries of Spectropolis, the Babysitter began to play with Muffin as he constructed a giant mud castle with the help of the Watchers and Watchdogs. Soon after, the Babysitter and Grace go off into Spectropolis to play around. The Watchers and Mik Hael began to add thousands of minor additions to the sand castle such traps, divine crystal walls and rooms as Crav walked out from the tournament bored and started to help them with the design. The ideas began to get even more crazy with fire shooting from every orifice in the castle, communication pipes that shoot darts, an indoor pool filled with sharks, a music machine of death and more death traps.

Not long after the previous fight, a human rushed into the battlefield and quickly drew a picture, summoning the leader of the Genasi, Emere for his fight as Zai the Thinker walked out to face his opponent.

Emere: Stage One: Elemental Manifest
In moments the fight had begun as Emere threw a single fireball at Zai the Thinker. Thr two fought for several minutes with smoke obscuring the battlefield from any fully visible details before clearing with only Emere left standing.

Rest Before the Fourth Fight
During the fight, Gilgamesh had taken the time to forge himself yet another Divine Artifact with which to make himself more powerful.

Meanwhile, construction on the castle of doom continued as the Babysitter and Grace continued walking, searching for a spot to do something divine. They eventually came to a stop in the desert sands and dedicated their power to creating the Mirror of Clones. Noticing the creation of the mirror, Mik Hael goes back into the city to talk with the Watchman.

Continuing on her way to Spectropolis, Mina took the time to create the last of her circle of elemental gods, Suna,  and one more, Illusia.

On his way to meet the Watchman, Mik Hael collapsed and from his head formed the last of the gods that he'd make in the First Age and the perpetrator of the next act, the Monsterking.

As Pike entered the field, the ground shook slightly as he waved and said, "HELLO LITTLE FRIENDS!" Archiver next entered the field, a thin line of ice trailing behind her.

Pike vs. Archiver
Pike and Archiver began by circling around one another as the circle of ice left behind by Archiver's feet continued to grow. Then Pike lifted a rock above his head and threw it at Archiver, as she dodged and began forming a circle of ice to entrap him. He then stomped the ground, making it crack to keep it from becoming too slippery to walk on and advanced towards Archiver. She responded by showering him with snow and blanketing the arena floor with ice as well as Pike continued to move forward relentlessly, growing in size with each step. Archiver's next move was to shove a column of ice up between Pike's legs, earning him a groan of sympathy from every male watching in the stands. With her opponent temporarily incapacitated, Archiver started turning the ice into snow and freezing Pike's legs to the ground as he started to grow in size becoming twice his previous height with the sandpaper-like textured skin normal for sharks. In response, Archiver froze the entire area around Pike into a mountain of ice, before slipping out from it and watching as she called forth more ice from the atmosphere to the arena floor. Reaching a height of around 8 metres now, Pike shoved apart the ice, lunging for Archiver as she dived right into the ice, leaving behind her icy spikes. Pike barely managed to stop himself before being impaled upon the spikes as Archiver fled from the arena, at the call of Dephos as Gilgamesh announced that the heroes of Mik Hael had forfeited all rights to be in the tournament.

Rest Before the Fifth Fight
As Rhogar entered the field of battle, confidant and unwavering, Aox nervously entered wearing many contraptions attached to his arms, legs, and back.

Rhogar vs. Aox
The fight began quickly with Rhogar's blade coating itself with frost as he began to charge at Aox. Aox nervously drew his dagger, only to have it knocked out of his hand almost immediately, but he pulled out a hidden crossbow firing a single arrow at Rhogar. Rhogar jumped to the side instinctively, the arrow embedding itself in his scales as he started circling around Aox defensively. Next, Aox pulled out of his bag a smoke bomb and threw it at Rhogar's feet using it to get as far away from his opponent as possible as Rhogar let out a blast of ice, missing his target. Rhogar then built up a wind around his blade to blow away the smoke. Though he was scared by the sudden turn of events that had the sky turning into crystal, Aox continued fighting by Gilgamesh's command, drawing out ceramic tubes and lit their ends as he approached Rhogar. Rhogar responded to Aox's approach by moving to attack with his blade coated with ice, however, Aox threw a tube as its wick ran out and it exploded in a quick, colorful display of fire.

Rhogar: Second Stage: Spell Scales
Confused by the turn of events and determining that his base level of power wasn't a match for Aox, Rhogar let loose a blast of ice as his body became more draconic. Stunned by his own attack, Aox shielded himself with nothing more than a leather apron his teeth chattering not just from the cold, but also from fright. Next, Rhogar took the time to fly into the air, breathing onto his own blade, he let the frost form around it in a cold determined cold. Tired of the cold, Aox pulled out another contraption and let fly, firing a stream of wet mud at Rhogar, instantly freezing in the already frigid air into a rock-hard sphere. The sphere flew threw the air much to Rhogar's amazement as it struck him, knocking him to the ground unconscious.

Attack on Spectropolis
As the fight between Rhogar and Aox progressed, another drama was also taking place. The Babysitter and Grace were attacked by the Monsterking and the Mirror of Clones stolen as Dephos found Mik Hael unconscious just outside Spectropolis. Suddenly, 5 giant clones of Muffin appeared and Dephos made the decision to return home as the situation rapidly got worse with a crystal dome appearing around Spectropolis to entrap all within. Chaos rapidly ensued as mortals realized that the only meaning of such an act could be a declaration of war against the gods, but are frightened into being tamed when Mela shouts out that she needed to finish her notes and none would stop her as Gilgamesh yelled out that he would not let the fight stop under any circumstances.

The Watchman quickly took stock of the situation and blasted his way out of the crystal with divine power and was quickly followed out by Zaya who escaped from the area to check what her mirror had to say about the situation.

Meanwhile, Dephos began to heal the damaged body of Mik Hael in the crystal castle at the center of his lands and reinforced the crystal with the power to absorb force, heal others and be harder to damage.

Meanwhile, the Watchers took Crav and getting him to see how dreadful the situation was he quickly animated the castle allowing them to move around to attack the crystal and the Muffin Clones under the command of the Watchers.

Deciding to do something, the Babysitter quickly jumped into action, attacking one of the Muffin clones as Grace was telepathically contacted by Mik Hael and made to have Muffin attack one of the clones.

Arriving at Spectropolis' boundaries finally, Mina and her entourage began to blast holes in the crystal with the full might of five goddesses, several Gargoyles, and Zombies all covered by illusions to prevent others from seeing what they were doing.

As the situation started to go bad for the Clone Muffins, the Monsterking quickly changed what the portion of crystal he had could do, making it cloak his presence from all outside.

Finally managing to touch the crystal dome, Grace sent a pulse of energy through it making it fall to pieces with each being no larger than a snowflake.

Rest Before the Sixth Match
Meanwhile, back in her lands, Mina's races had continued work upon the temple that would honor all of the gods of her pantheon. Each individual had either carved a block of stone to grace the walls of the temple and a stone had been set aside for each god to carve themselves, as well each god had an altar that was being made for them.

Going up to where Grace and the Babysitter were levitating, the Watchman inquired into how events had gotten to be as bad as they had, recieving an answer of denial of knowledge.

In a hidden room, the Monsterking began his agenda to destroy the world creating first, shadowy copies of each god, weaker than the originals, but still powerful enough for his purposes, and second his Servitors, the Nightmare Virus.

Meanwhile, Zaya sent the Watchman a message telling him to search to the southwest of Spectropolis as that would be where he would most likely find the perpetrator. Before leaving to find out who it was, the Watchman turned two of his Watchers into Gods in order to guard the city in his absence before leaving to find Mik Hael, The Reasonable, and to accompany him on the manhunt, The Veteran. Noticing the Watchman, Mina follows him, taking Kyuuketsu, Suna, and Illusia with her as Magnas and Gravas led her retinue back to Spectropolis. Before they left to find the perpetrator of the events, though, Mina raised the last two gods that she'd create during the First Age, Fuujin and Raijin. Illusia then raised an illusion to hide them all and off they went searching.

Having calmed down the entire crowd, the Reasonable then left the arena with the Babysitter and Grace in tow, heading towards Mik Hael's lands. Before he left, he was questioned by Pessimal but gave no answers. The next one on Pessimal's list to talk to was Emere, however from Emere he recieved mostly questions about his own lands but did learn of the newest God under Gilgamesh. He then returned to the stands and began talking with one of his crew, Mileena, and learning of the fight between the Castle Von Trapt and the Muffin Clone, he started on writing an article almost immediately.

As the match between Kagehana and Tirion approached, the two strode out into the arena floor, confidant and ready to fight.

Kagehana vs. Tirion
The match began quickly with Tirion entering into a practiced aggressive stance as Kagehana began to sing. Listening and commenting on the song as he attacked, Tirion moved into position to swing his sword at Kagehana as she drew Kagenobara and continued her song. The two exchanged blows as Kagehana finished her spell, Elemental Barrage, firing off a barrage of elemental power at Tirion.

Tirion: First Tier: Light Bringer
Blocking the spell with a shield of light, Tirion responded with a blade of light to cut Kagehana as she moved to the side and formed a tendril of shadow to trip him, but not fast enough to keep herself from getting cut. Falling hard on the ground, Tirion laughed in joy as he formed another blade of light and threw it at Kagehana. Forming her own shield from shadows to block the blade, Kagehana slipped into the shadows beneath her and re-appeared behind Tirion, slashing at him with Kagenobara as he rolled away, the strike glancing off his armor. Forming a field of light behind himself to alert himself to more attacks from behind, Tirion waited for Kagehana's next attack with his blade at the ready. Kagehana quickly formed spheres from shadows, throwing them at Tirion as he deflected them and kept the distance between them stable, waiting for a moment to attack.

Tirion: Second Stage: Spectral Slayer
Casting yet another spell, Stride, Kagehana charged at Tirion with a brass knuckle formed from shadows and Kagehana ready to parry counterattacks as his blade began to glow red. As the two attacks connected there was a burst of flames and Kagehana moved back repeating her attack with the orbs from before, only with twice the magnitude in number. Charging forward while he still had the element of surprise, Tirion cleaved the orbs in half as he fired off another arc of light only this one froze the arena wall as Kagehana slipped into the shadows, coming out of one of her orbs from before, firing yet more orbs at her foe. Struck by several of the orbs, Tirion stabbed the ground beneath him releasing a ring of light to banish the shadows from around him as he charged forward, swinging his blade to release several blades of multi-colored light. Kagehana slipped into the shadows once more, letting them crash into the walls around where she had been in a shower of sparks and blasts of flame. Tirion quickly decided to give up chasing her down and stuck to throwing another arc at Kagehana who blocked with a sphere of darkness and three shadow spears that Tirion deflected with light.

Kagenobara's Power
Deciding to test her opponent once more, Kagehana charged at Tirion with the spell Stride boosting her once more and Kagenobara at the ready, as Tirion began to react by releasing his full might, a golden dragon circling around him, he was quickly cut down with what the spectators saw as no more than a flash of shadows.

Balasar's Raids Begin
In Gilgamesh's lands, a group of Dragonborn led by the esteemed Balasar ran from authorities as they had become outlaws, with the aid of Yojimbo they managed to fly across the seas on Hippogriffs to the lands of Uburra-Namall. Meanwhile, at the tournament, Uburra-Namall and her deities left for home, leaving their heroes to participate in the tournament as long as they could. Upon returning, she learned of the presence of the intruding Dragonborn and decided to pay them a visit, however first they made themselves appear mortal before going out. During the night, under the watchful eye of Yojimbo, the Dragonborn attacked and plundered the closest village, taking goods as they pleased.

Rest Before the Seventh Match
Returning quickly to his lands, as the spectators filed out from the arena, Bahamut quickly created many mythical creatures on Gilgamesh's lands: Treants, Warp Stalkers, Minotaurs, Changelings, and Goblins.

In an interview with Aox, Pessimal quickly learned that Aox had very little skill at combat and gave credit to luck for his victory. The two then quickly discussed how to improve Aox's pressure hose before leaving quickly to keep from interfering with the results of future fights.

Quickly making her way to where Gilgamesh rested, Magnas quickly told him that as a Vampire, Taro, could not fight in full sunlight and that in agreement that a match at that time would be for the best, Gilgamesh started the match between Taro and Thorn quickly.

Finding out about the match starting early, Pessimal attempted to enter the arena to get a good story with Mileena by his side but was quickly stopped by both Gilgamesh and Kagehana. As they answer to their reasons for getting close to the fight, a rather large woman entered the area and began to watch the fight as well, introducing herself as Madame A. Gant.

Thorn vs. Taro
Before they began, Thorn took the time to quickly prepare mentally.

Thorn: First Stage: Primal Predator
Once he finished his preparations, Thorn quickly transformed, turning into a powerful animal with large muscles and paraphernalia from many different creatures before lunging at Taro with upraised claws to strike at him as Taro's body flew apart into a group of bats and recomposed itself on the other side of the arena. He then pulled out a knife and slashes his wrist, the blood pooling before turning into a wolf as it charged at Thorn and he made a small group of bats. Thorn quickly rips it in two before running at Taro, disregarding the bats as they blinded him with their bodies and wings giving time for the blood wolf to catch up with him, having reformed its body. He quickly moves to shred Taro with his claws as the Vampire dodged, but was harmed, allowing the blood that came out to form into a butterfly to cover his enemy's nose.

Thorn: Second Stage: Keeper of the Hidden Flame
Tired of Taro's tricks, Thorn unleashed the hidden magic of the Shifter Druids burning the wolf's jaw into a mass of blood while simultaneously whipping Taro's inner spark into a bestial frenzy as he then proceeded to attack, unfortunately not cunting on the fact that Taro would start trying to drink his blood. He quickly dodged Taro's attacks, trying to decide how to decide with the wolf's relentless advance. Realizing that their attacks were useless, the bats quickly combined with the wolf into a bear advancing on Thorn in a now more powerful form, however Thorn quickly burnt it into a pool that would not reform anymore before lunging at Taro once more. The two quickly clash, Taro biting deep into Thorn's neck as he in turn grabbed Taro's hand, soon a golden dragon circled around Thorn's body as it grew larger and he became the perfect hunter throwing Taro away from his body.

Thorn: Third Stage: Archetype of Nature
Thorn roared with the power of a dragon as Taro began to recover from his bloodlust, pulling out three vials of blood before forming a sword of blood from their contents. Thorn quickly responded with attempting to trip Taro, but his target burst apart once more into a swarm of bats before recoalescing on Thorn's back and stabbing him in the shoulder. Howling in pain, Thorn drew upon the powers of the Warp Stalkers and disappeared before reappearing a few metres away and swung his good arm at Taro. Taro just as quickly split apart into bats and flew around to distract his opponent who began to hunt down every single individual bat as Taro reformed on his good arm and swung down with his sword onto the arm. Igniting Taro's inner flame once more, Thorn prepared for yet another attack, however fell to the ground as Taro bit into him yet again and began drinking his blood once more.

Rest Before the Eighth Match
Fiddling with some metal while searching for the Monsterking, Mina quickly made a few Artifacts, the Clone-Blade and the Shadow's Armory. Tired from the day's activities, Crav walked over to the castle and came to the conclusion that a Goddess of Architecture would be nice for the world to have and thus formed Sonia, though at this time, she was unnamed.

With the fight having finished, Kagehana quickly brought Taro to the stands for an interview with Pessimal as healers began to run in to help Thorn. Mina soon showed up, having found nothing in the desert sands with the Watchman and hands to her heroes who won Artifacts, for Kagehana the Clone-Blade and for Taro the Heart's Blood, as well Kagehana was given the power to control light leading to her power "Twilight's End" and as a side effect gained lighter skin than the rest of the Shadow-Scarred.

In Uburra-Namall's lands, a new being suddenly appeared, calling the area a fairy garden, she quickly came upon the footprints of the intruding Dragonborn and decided to purge the lands of them.

Deciding to augment his power and that of his races even more, Gilgamesh created the Gate Stone and the Moon Star to aid them.

Lying down in a temple dedicated to her, Uburra-Namall let her mind wander, accidentally creating the Plane of Inspiration and inspiring hundreds of Boquabians to work as hard as they could to become better beings. Deciding that things were taking far to long for any results to come about of the outlaw Dragonborn's raiding, he cursed them to invisibility for the tales that would be spread around. The next morning, Prasim came upon the Dragonborn's cave and began a conversation with Yojimbo before leading him to Uburra-Namall as they struck up a bargain that mortals would deal with mortals, no divine interference, at least not from either of their pantheons.

The next morning in Spectropolis the next match began with Atlas and Mina the Sly entering the field of battle.

Atlas vs. Mina the Sly
Atlas quickly started the fight, stretching one of his hands out into a blade.

Atlas: First Stage: Blade-Forger
Mina stood still, waiting to see what her opponent would do as he lunged at her blade first. Mina quickly responded  with a backflip to dodge then moved to slice Atlas with her tessen only to be deflected as he then struck out experimentally with his blade before forming another one with his other hand to attack once more. Dodging the unexpected attack, mostly due to luck, Mina brought up her tessen to attack him with a slice once more, the strike glancing off his armor, as Atlas slashed with his blade, knocking Mina to the ground as she landed on her rump. Taking advantage of Mina being on the ground, Atlas swung his blade at the downed hero as she swung her tessen up to block the swing and knocking the blade away, Mina slashed at Atlas' tendon with her tessen. As her foe stumbled from the blow, his armor protecting him, Mina lunged forward, her tessen aimed for her foe's neck.

Atlas: Second Stage: Liquid Being
As the tessen sliced through his neck, Atlas looked straight at Mina and knocked her away with a stretching arm as she blocked the blow with her tessen as her shield. Dodging further blows from Atlas, Mina ran up the arena wall, backflipped off it and slashed at Atlas' neck landing a blow... That did no visible harm as he jumped into the air, forming a blade that he stretched down to slash her. Mina dodged and quickly began reassessing her options even as Atlas slammed back into the ground, letting his blades slide in before coming up from beneath her. The blades struck true within Mina's gut and left shoulder, leaving the poor Boquabian to watch her life fade before her eyes.

The Raids Continue
With the deal having been struck with Yojimbo, Uburra-Namall retreated back to her mountaintop even as her dear Boquabians were being robbed from. However, lo and behold! A savior quickly appeared in their midst, a scientisit who would find the theives and help to make them pay. He had found a scale of one of the Dragonborn and would work to find out whose it was.

Bored due to her deal with Yojimbo, Uburra-Namall quickly went on a spree of creation within her lands, creating the Phoenix, the Gryphon, the Unicorn, the Pegasus, the Centaur, and the Elves.

Meanwhile, the unknown visitor to her lands began to poke around the cave where the Dragonborn were living. It wasn't long before they put a knife to her neck and forced her to walk forward to make her go before their leader, but as soon as they reached Balasar's throne room, she quickly attacked with a pair of knives and in response, they began to breath poison, filling the room with their noxious vapours. A fight quickly ensued with all of the Dragonborn being cut down by the woman's blades, only for her to reveal at its end that she was a goddess, Sonia, daughter of Indki (Time) and Gadvaj (Wisdom), sister of Jdhydhiaei (Diligence) and wife of Gzb (War), Goddess of Experience. She then brought the Dragonborn back to life, and left having agreed to leave them alone. Later, in order to raise morale among his band of Dragonborn, Balasar had them kill those that they stole from later as well as poison sources of water in several villages.

In response to the pillaging, the inventor Draias quickly created a fingerprint identification device in order to determine who had been stealing goods, resulting in a festival to honor the Boquabians' goddess. As everyone began to prepare, three young Boquabians (Rox, Linessa, and Gosso) came upon Sonia brooding on a rock. The four quickly struck up a conversation, in which they discussed from when and where Sonia was from as well as what life was like in Uburra-Namall's lands, though the three Boquabians did the majority of the talking.

Exile
Meanwhile, in Mina's lands, the succubus Brynhildr Homura was kicked out and swore to come back with allies for revenge. Leaving Mina's lands, she quickly came upon the island of Uburra-Namall and passed by Diamond, one of the sentries of Uburra-Namall's lands. Not long after, three villagers were killed and their hearts eaten.

Searching for Answers
Having left Spectropolis, the Reasonable, the Babysitter, and Grace arrived at Mik Hael's lands and were quickly allowed in to determine what had happened so far and learning that Mik Hael was currently in a catatonic state, they quickly exchanged information with Dephos before deciding to search the memories stored within the crystal itself. Meanwhile, impatient for answers, Zaya followed the others into the crystal disguised as a crow.

Rest Before the Ninth Match
As soon as the match ended, two Spirits of Healing rushed in and made sure that Mina the Sly lived through her near-death experience.

During the ninth match, Suna and Illusia took the time to create the Reino Tessen, the Anathema Scythe and the Endless Bag. While working on the Core Temple, Lily and Kyouko took the time to make Sora, Mizuna, and Koneko into heroes for their races as well as making any who left Mosooriku would remember nothing about its defenses.

Drunk and bored during the match, Crav had left it and taking some of the sand from the area around Spectropolis, he created the Clay of Creation. Finding everything around her to be exciting, Sonia eventually wandered into the arena and quickly ended up in a conversation with Kagehana, who encouraged her to make up her own name, eventually deciding to call herself Sonia.

As well, the avatar Hazet Jr. arrived in the arena and began to inquire as to the information that Mela had managed to gather on each of the fighting heroes. Meanwhile in Pessimal's area in Spectropolis, Torbin, a dwarf hired by  Pessimal quickly found himself nose to nose with Madame A. Gant, yet again.

Lo-Kag vs. Shifter
The match ended just as quickly as it began, Lo-Kag took one swing at his opponent and, swinging his club once, snapped his opponent's weapon in half and the poor Shifter's ribs as well.

Watchman vs. Eglath, Vimak, and Nalla?????
As it was now the end of the first round of the tournament, Gilgamesh started another entertainment, the Watchman against 3 of his Goliaths. The three entered first, Eglath carrying a waraxe, Vimak with two warhammers, and Nalla with a club. They would be waiting for awhile as the Watchman was nowhere to be found for the next few hours.

Rest Before the Tenth Match
In Uburra-Namall's lands, Khadai and the Seven-Sin Sisters quickly began plotting on how they could inflict more sins upon the Boquabians who didn't worship them with her permission. They entered the Plane of Creativity and quickly began searching for anything to use... They quickly found items before turning them into the Bowl of the Provider, the Chalice of the Provider, the Writer's Block, the Love Lock, the Heart's Bane, and the Soul's Vanity.

Changing her body to that of a Giant Shark's, Deva sought out Pike for a conversation as Gilgamesh brought up the possibility of  two new crafting projects with Crav: the tournament's trophy, which the crafter gladly accepted and the creation of weapons for each of Gilgamesh's heroes, which would later be turned into artifacts. Deva and Pike quickly struck up a conversation during which Deva gave the Great Sharks the power to "reflect the nature of the sea in their bodies and [have] the sea's power at their disposal."

Continuing the spurt of divine creation, Illusia and Suna formed the Zombies, Light-Scarred, the blind Kata, and the Homura as they raised the first of the Light-Scarred heroes, Hikaru and the heroes for the Homura, Jigoku and Hiko.

While they waited for the fight with the Watchman to finish, Gilgamesh let the next match of the tournament go on simultaneously in another portion of the arena.

Bo the Quick vs. Revei the Brave
The match began quickly with Bo rushing at Revei as the flier dodged, going into the sky before coming back down with his mallet at the ready, only to be dodged as Bo then began to jab at him with the end of his staff. The match continued on with Bo jumping up to thrust, jab and attack as Revei merely defended himself, causing Bo to slowly wear himself out throughout the match before getting Revei to land due to an insult about how Boquabian he was. As soon as Revei landed, Bo rushed at him to strike with his staff, only to notice that Revei was still hovering and dodged out of his way, allowing Bo to painfully crash into the arena wall at full speed. As Bo collapsed to the ground and was taken out for healing, Revei made a flourishing bow to the audience for watching the match.

Rest Before the Eleventh Match
During the matches, Rubi, a half-Lycanthropic half-Yukionna crossbreed, wandered around Spectropolis, admiring its architecture as back at home, her mother wondered what she was up to and if she was safe.

Pike vs. Emere
Emere quickly began the fight making his hair turn black and the lines of power on his body turn a darker red as Pike began to circle around him.

Emere: Stage Two: Dual Soul
As Emere began to gather power to attack, Pike charged him only to have Emere dodge before sending a blast of flame at the Giant Shark. As he was struck by the flames, Pike turned towards Emere as he began to grow larger, like he had in his previous match. Emere quickly formed a barrier of flames in the floor only for the flames to dim slightly due to the new power of the Giant Sharks courtesy of Deva before Pike lunged at Emere to strike while he could. Quickly, Emere launched five wires of fire at Pike as the shark began to grow in anger and a wind smelling of the sea began to blow in the arena. Using the wind to his advantage, Emere began to form flames and release them into the winds, only for them to fade as Pike continued to advance. In desperation, Emere gathered his flames around himself before teleporting to the other end of the arena and firing a star-shaped bolt of void flames at Pike. The flames scattered in the wind, reducing it to naught more than a breeze as Pike charged Emere yet again, growing larger as he did so. Gathering his flames for one last strike, Emere threw them at Pike, who collapsed in pain, leaving the Genasi the winner.

Rest Before the Twelfth Match
Meanwhile, during the match, Pessimal and Madame A. Gant began to discuss matters, especially that of how she knew all of the delightful details that she had given the night before. The two entered the arena stands and began to discuss matters before eventually gaining the information that Pessimal had desired for awhile on the first Divine War and was quickly confirmed by Kagehana who had been lingering around since her conversation with Sonia and overheard the conversation. At that point the Kata and the Light-Scarred entered the arena and another just as interesting conversation began about the (dis)advantages of having or not having sight.

As well, the Artifact weapons had been finished and delivered to Gilgamesh, allowing him to distribute them among his heroes: the Staff of the Cosmos, the Claws of the Hidden Flame, the Spectral Slayer, the Tempest Orb, the Hercules Bands, the Scabbard of Many Blades, the Spell Scales, and the Storm Matrix.

Back in Mina's lands, the smith Sora began creating weapons for Mina's heroes, but just couldn't get the design right in his mind as Koneko ran in to hide from Kira, who had just bought new clothes. As well, at this point it was revealed that more Halves existed in Mina's lands beyond just Rubi as Isabelle, a Werepyre and niece of Sora, and Miki, a Shadow-Scarred/Lycanthrope began fighting with Isabelle as the eventual winner.

Slipping through the shadows, Kagehana quickly entered the arena as Aox came in with goggles, this time confidant and ready to fight.

Kagehana vs. Aox
Aox began the match pulling clay spheres from his satchel as his foe formed an armor of solid shadows around herself and drew the Clone-Blade. As Kagehana gathered flames around the Clone-Blade, Aox charged, screaming to psych himself up and threw his clay pots, letting them explode at her feet. Kagehana quickly used the power of the explosions to backflip away from where Aox charged at, then slipped away through the shadows as he charged through the smoke, waving his arms to strike her as hard as he could. Noticing that she was in another area of the arena altogether, Aox lifted his arm before firing a small metal disk at her with a contraption on his arm that bounced off her shadowy armor as Kagehana responded by firing off a crescent of shadows at him, the first showing of her technique "Midnight Fang."

A Fight with Tricks
Narrowly dodging the attack, Aox fired more razors at Kagehana before grabbing a clay pot from his satchel as he charged yet again. Countering with her own disks formed of shadows, Kagehana moved out of his way as Aox flew into the air firing disks, propelled by a spring in his boot, however he was struck in the leg by one of the disks and landed hard, dropping his clay pot, scattering its contents over the arena floor. Dodging through the shadows yet again, Kagehana fired another Midnight Fang as Aox blocked with a knife before limping across the arena scattering caltrops behind himself. Forming small amounts of fire and ice, Kagehana resonated them together partially before firing them as a combined blast as Aox pulled out a white clay pot, threw it, and put on his goggles. Upon striking each other, the two projectiles resulted in a bright light that shined across all of the arena, banishing every shadow as Aox ran forward to attack Kagehana with a hooked blade as she swung at him with the Clone-Blade. As the two weapons ran down each others' lengths with a loud screeach and Aox attempted to disarm Kagehana, she started to draw Kagenobara from its sheathe and was hit from the side with an awkward right hook from Aox. In response, Kagehana kicked at Aox and grabbed his hand as he attempted to swipe at her with his blade. Blocking the blade with the Clone-Blade as she finished drawing Kagenobara, Kagehana asked of Aox whether or not he'd yield.

A Great Explosion
In response to Kagehana's question, Aox pulled out of his satchel a match which he threw at Kagehana for his last punch had been filled with explosive gel that was now smeared upon her armor-protected face. As she saw the match fly, Kagehana hardened her armor, bracing herself for the flames, but instead an explosion engulfed that area of the arena, destroying her armor and charring part of her face. However, even from the stands, it could be easily seen that it was Aox who had taken the brunt of the damage, with his hand completely blown off, even as Kagehana healed the damage with magic, repeated her previous question, and began to reform her shadow armor around herself.

Aox Releases His Inner Strength
Suddenly, a light began to glow around Aox, static crackling across his body and a hot wind began to swirl around him like a cyclone. He rose slowly, opening his eyes to reveal that they had become an electric blue. To his severed hand, nuts, bolts, and other miscellaneous parts flew from his satchel to form a metal claw where his hand had been, and then he repeated Kagehana's question back at her, only he had an insane grin on his face. Sighing at his actions, Kagehana let the shadows swirling around the Clone-Blade fade, even as they started around Kagenobara and swung the Clone-Blade, letting dozens of swords of light fly forth from its blade. In response, several pots burst forth from Aox's satchel and ignited, creating a thick cloud of smoke that quickly hid him from view. Just as quickly, Kagehana unleashed a Midnight Fang and several more blades of light at the smoke to try to hit Aox, however with the aid from the springs on the bottom of his boots, Aox burst forth from the smoke, clawing, hacking and slashing as fast as he could at Kagehana. As she blocked the strikes, Kagehana unleashed a giant snake head formed of katana that Aox countered quickly with a spray of wet mud from a nozzle in his shirt. As soon as she noted that her ruse had worked, Kagehana moved quickly, unleashing two Midnight Fangs from Kagenobara and forming several shuriken from the shadows that flew at Aox. The attacks all struck true then a blue light flashed revealing Aox, only now he had metal plates all over his body, similar to the metal claw that his hand had become. Now grinning, Kagehana unleashed a Midnight Fang and one of Tirion's muti-colored arcs at Aox as a stick fell from the sky, accompanied by the cawing of a crow. Dodging the attacks as he threw explosive pots at them, Aox picked up the stick, hoping that it would come in handy later. The attacks from both sides collided, resulting in yet another explosion that rocked the entire arena even as Kagehana and Aox fired yet more blasts and projectiles at one another.

Finale
Forming a shield of shadows around herself, Kagehana blocked the projectiles as she moved to get better aim at Aox and the shadows started swirling around Kagenobara faster than before. Firing as many projectiles as each side could to prevent each other from gaining an advantage, Kagehana cast Stride yet again as she fired a giant crescent at Aox, her "Darkest Midnight Fang." Half-tripping, Aox fell towards the crescent, his power attempting to push it away, before finally going critical as azure flames burst out in all directions as he fell to the ground unconscious, the ground around him charred in a circle, his makeshift hand having fallen apart, and his satchel torn with its contents spilling out.

Taking pity upon Aox, Kagehana walked over and healed him as Gilgamesh declared her the winner.

Brynhildr's and Balasar's Killings Are Revealed
In Uburra-Namall's lands, as the festivals continued, a young illusionist named Fandas began an act, but was quickly interrupted when a young child screamed out "MONSTER!" having seen a weird being kill his father mere moments ago. Deciding to find out what was going on, Draias took many of his fellow Boquabians, including the three who had talked to Sonia and Fandas on an excursion to see what they could discover.

As the Boquabians ran around gathering their tools and weapons together for the band to try and find out what was going on, Itself began to wander around and finding a lone Boquabian, feasted that night.

Searching around the crime scenes, the Boquabians used the scens they found to have dogs find the criminals for them. The dogs eventually came to a stop and Fandas quickly found an invisible scale which he handed to Draias in order to continue on and track the Dragonborn.

Coming up behind Brynhildr, Itself hissed, startling Brynhildr who quickly spun around and put her fingernails at Itself's throat before being slapped by several arms. She was sent flying before landing in a tree and being knocked unconscious. Having seen Itself, the group of Boquabians stopped in horror, only for it to jump at them as the young Broda faced Itself and held up a wooden sword to protect his mother. Surprised by the actions of the child, Itself bounded away into the trees much to the joy of the gathered Boquabians.

The Plane of Dreams
Having entered the area within the Divine Crystal, the Reasonable and the Babysitter talked shortly about how it felt similar, the feeling of being mortal, however  the group that had gone in to search for answers behind the attack on Spectropolis soon got separated from each other and began to experience their worst nightmares, past experiences or past lives.

As the group became trapped within the Plane of Dreams, the Mosterking created the Gremlins], the [[Snorkel Giants, and the Mosquito Riders.

Rest Before the Thirteenth Match
As Pike rested from his wounds in the previous fight, the hero Thorn stood by his bedside awaiting a chance to talk with him. When he awoke, Thorn quickly invited Pike to have the chance to go to the Plane of Heroes, but was told by Pike that he would take the time to think about it and decide after the tournament what his answer would be.

Meanwhile, interrupted from fishing in the dome at the center of Spectropolis, the Veteran got the Watchman to exit the city quickly and create for him the Vandals to defend Spectropolis against future threats. Not long after, the first of the Vandals came out of the hole that they were born in and began to give themselves names based on what they had first seen when they had emerged. Soon after that, the hero Rhogar located the Watchman and requested that he deign to show himself in the arena to face the Goliaths who had been wiating now for awhile. He was quickly bombarded with questions about the culture of his people and who Gilgamesh was as the group entered the arena grounds. As they entered, they were then approached by Hazet Jr., who introduced himself then asked what they thought of the current match going on.

In Mina's lands, the two heroes, Fubuki and Koriko sparred against one another as they worked to perfect a spell for use against Kagehana.

Slightly outside Spectropolis, Mina took the time to form a Divine Artifact, Hikarinobara (that she would later fuse with the Kagenobara after the Nightmare Invasion to form the Yugurenobara), and the Magatama Necklace,.

Having stayed with the Vandals when the Watchman had returned to the arena to see how the current fight was going, the Veteran drilled the Vandals still outside the city as well as he could in military tactics.

Returning to the stands, Kagehana began to talk with the others, only for Gilgamesh to appear before her and smite all of the techniques that the Clone-Blade had gained to oblivion. Not long after, unconcerned about what had just occurred, Kagehana left with Hikaru in tow to do some training for the next day's matches.

Saddened by the turn of events during Aox's match, Crav wandered outside before coming to lie on top of Castle Von Trapt. Mulling in despair over his past decisions, his divine power seeped into the castle and from that the God of Animation, Von Trapt, was born. Not long after, the Veteran noticed the new god and quickly began to praise Crav for having created Von Trapt, who quickly realized that he could possibly have the new help him with the problem of Aox's hand. Having finished with motivating the previously saddened Crafting God, the Veteran quickly returned to the job of training his Vandals in the art of war.

Taking a quick break from the tournament, Gilgamesh returned to his lands and before starting the matches back up again, he and Bahamut created the Void Walkers, the Plane of Vaults, the Spirit Titan, and the Chest of Titans.

Awakening in the infirmary, Aox looked at his missing hand before making the vow that he would get stronger no matter what and falling back asleep. As he slept, Von Trapt worked quickly to make a prosthetic hand and attached it to the stump that remained of Aox's hand. When he woke up, Aox quickly left Spectropolis in order to improve himself as a hero, taking with him all of his materials and the stick from before.

Having left the tournament area to train, Kagehana and Hikaru quickly began to spar against one another with light as their only weapon. As they sparred, the young Vandal Horizon watched on mesmerized by what they were doing. With their only weapon being light, Kagehana fought at a disadvantage as Hikaru quickly learned the way to wield her powers at their strongest. After the two left, Horizon, amazed at the lightshow of power that they had put on, started grabbing around in the air, trying to throw whatever it was that the two of them had been throwing, eventually creating the magical art that would later spread across the world and be called by the name "Pitching."

Outside the city, Aox quickly came upon the Veteran training the Vandals and joined them in order to learn the basics of fighting according to the Veteran: Don't trust your opponent. EVER. He learned as well about the art of feinting when fighting and that the majority of the fight was in the mind. In addition, the Veteran quickly taught Aox that hitting the ribcage was a bad idea, the limbs and head were better targets. The Veteran then gave Aox a book with thousands of ways to defeat enemies and told him to use misinformation to his advantage. Then as Aox made to leave, the Veteran handed Aox his cloak, wishing him the best of luck and sent him off with two Vandals to keep him safe. As a conversation starter Aox quickly inquired into what the Vandals were as they headed out towards where the boats were docked. As the day ended, the Vandals and Aox quickly set up camp in the sand of the desert.

Over in Mina's lands, the University of Elements was shown to be doing well, having grown from its earlier size as a young Yukionna, Shige Yuri, ran to classes on lightning magic. Deciding to return home, Magnas and Suna took with them a few of the Light-Scarred, Zombies, Kata, and Homura as they flew back.

As Kagehana and Hikaru separated after their sparring, Kagehana handed Hikaru a bag of money and left her to her own devices in order to do training on her own. Not long after, having bought a bow and arrow, Hikaru found an empty firing range and began to learn with the aid of a lone, unknown man. Wandering around, Illusia entered the Religious District in Spectropolis and began to clean the temple dedicated to Mina.

Returning back to the tournament, Gilgamesh signaled for the next match to begin as the competitors walked in and he created the Mirror Shield that he sent back to the Vault of Planes for the Spirit Titan to use as needed. As well, Crav found him and presented to Gilgamesh the tournament's prize, hidden underneath a cloth.

Human vs. Tyran the Strong
The match quickly began as Tyran looked his opponent over and began charging toward the human. He lifted his greatsword high above his head as he prepared to bash the human's head in, but the human looked at him, still smirking. While confused by the human's attitude, Tyran kept coming and used his great leg strength to throw himself twenty feet in the air. Suddenly he stopped, frozen in his warlike attack position, and hovered in mid-air. Tyran's expression faded into dismay as the human looked increasingly more pleased.

Human Magic Shows Its Power
The mage quickly began attacking, starting with decorating the wall with a new crater. A great shattering, smashing sound erupted from the hole Tyran left in the wall before he emerged from the rubble and though ragged and pained, he still had the stamina and reflexes enough to elude the magic bolt that the human had followed up with after slamming him into the wall. Another violent crash came behind him, narrowly missing him with all the shrapnel and debris it released. Tyran would have no time to sit and catch his breath; instead, he reached for his sword and hoisted up his shield as the mage watched with sinister glee as his magic built up again, and then extended his hand to release what could easily have been mistaken for purply-pink lightning. Tyran dodged, landing behind a heap of rocks. Immediately, dropping his sword, he picked up one of the larger pieces to cast at his human adversary. While the human wasted precious mana to riposte the huge stone, Tyran took the distraction as an opportunity to get closer.

Tyran Strikes Back
The mage's eyes widened as he noticed too late that Tyran was upon him; his magic was all that spared him as the Boquabian bashed him in the face with his shield, and sent him flying backward. Quickly, Tyran caught up to where the mage had tumbled, just as he had built enough power for a magic missile. Narrowly missing, the bolt soared past Tyran as likewise, he narrowly missed the mage's head with his greatsword, but struck with a kick. Another near-miss with the sword; another missing bash of the shield. Another bolt of magic to the face as the two exchanged blows for a while; magically-augmented punches here, swipes of the sword and shield there. Punch, duck, swipe, dodge, kick, duck, lunge, parry...And amazingly, Tyran would begin to show signs of wear before his magic-wielding counterpart. Not long after, his movements began to sharpen once again in anger. Tyran's reflexes became angry bursts instead of brutish swipes. He grew steadier in his anger, and more precise in his indignation. The mage started losing ground quickly, as Tyran's motions grew yet more relentless, until finally he had been tricked out of magic fuel again, just as he backed into a corner. But Tyran had no time to give some witty remark, or to bask in his impending victory. He could only think of the words that Jissei had told him:

With that, the mage met a swift and bloody end.

Rest Before the Fourteenth Match
With the previous match having finished so bloodily, Mikoto ran out of the arena as Nayotake no Hime entered, wearing the Cloak of Hiding to conceal herself from sight. Not long after, Amalia entered the arena and Gilgamesh announced the start of the match.

Nayotake vs. Amalia
Hime quickly moved, throwing copies of the Hydra Dagger at Amalia even as she captured one and began to use it to detect where Hime was. Quickly realizing the danger that the mage's spells could represent, Hime threw a pair of fireballs at Amalia, only for them to be gulped down by manaphages as Amalia completed her detection spell. Scattering seeds for vines and copies of the Hydra Dagger around the arena, Hime moved quickly attempting to avoid detection as well as she possibly could as Amalia began to cast a spell, an invisible fog spreading out from her body. Unleashing her plant magic, Hime made the plants grow quickly, simultaneously whipping at Amalia and throwing daggers into her defenses as she then ignited the fog, wincing as it damaged her own protections. Hime quickly took advantage of the situation, using the Hydra Dagger's powers to form a giant snake head that she quickly launched at Amalia. Knocking back the attack, Amalia's magic quickly struck back at where the magic had originated at, only to strike at nothing as Hime launched another snake head with poison on its fangs to be knocked away by Amalia's protections and her magic continued searching for the Human hero. Gathering her power, Hime launched another strike, this time a set of three snake heads, all with poison rubbed onto the blades. Poison quickly boiled across Amalia's shields as her magic again attempted to locate Hime to no avail. Forming rings of daggers around Amalia as she launched them to whittle down the powerful protections, Hime continued dodging, only for Amalia to unleash a wave of sound that temporarily incapacitated her for a few seconds. As the attacks continued, Amalia began to stop losing her shields to Hime's attacks and the hero was forced to switch tactics, unleashing a literal swarm of fish formed from daggers augmented with a casting of Stride. The attack struck at Amalia's protections, knocking her back in a blast of power as she began to repair her defenses and Hime began to strike once more with rings of daggers. As the attacks struck, Amalia cast a spell unleashing several red butterflies. In response, Hime formed a barrier of daggers between herself and the butterflies, only for them to go through the daggers and strike her, knocking her into a wall unconscious.

Balasar's Hideout is Discovered
Using the invisible scale they had found earlier, the group of Boquabians quickly found the cave where Balasar and his Dragonborn had hidden, only to their confusion, there was nobody in sight.

Watching the situation from upon her mountaintop retreat, Uburra-Namall quickly grew worried for the Boquabians' lives and sent a call out for some Elves to come to the Boquabians' aid.

Itself began to move, awaiting its chance to feast upon the survivors of the fight as the Dragonborn returned to their cave and got ready to slaughter all of the Boquabians where they stood. As the first Boquabian died, the Elves arrived and in angry tones demanded who had fouled the water in their town wells. The fight quickly began in earnest, only to fall into a stalemate as the Dragonborn pulled their Boquabian hostages with them into the caves.

Wandering about the island, Sonia suddenly became aware of Itself as Itself became aware of her, the two moved in a beeline towards one another, unintentionally converging on the battle at the Dragonborn's cave.

Trapped and Alone
In the Plane of Dreams, Dephos was quickly surrounded by Snorkel Giants and began to fight as each of the group began to face their worst nightmares. The Babysitter was chased through a forest as the Reasonable hid in a city that was losing a war, the side that he was on.

Meanwhile, Zaya, who had followed the group into the plane, ended up trapped in a barren, lifeless world where she began to sob in dismay for she was back in the world that she had killed and where she had been born as a mortal. Tortured by her memories of a world long gone, Zaya despaired over those who had been lost.

Mocking Mik Hael with a copy, the Monsterking began to advance his plans, creating the Face Stealers in the Plane of Dreams in preparation for the trials to come.

Rest Before the Fifteenth Match
As the match progressed, Magnas and Suna returned home and meeting with Lily and Kyouko quickly searched for members of the races of Mina's lands to join a new organization, the Spellbound. In addition, four of the altars were finished and quickly turned into Artifacts.

As well, Gilgamesh quickly created the Artifact Vine, sending it off to the Vault of Planes even as the Watchman entered his booth demanding to know what the rules of the tournament were. Failing to convince Gilgamesh to alter the rules of the tournament to prevent killings, the Watchman stormed out, bringing the human mage from the previous match back to life.

Meanwhile, in Spectropolis outside the arena, a hooded figure walked through its streets before leaving an eerie, glowing candle in an alleyway. Amused by the candle, a Sea Hag picked it up, hid it, and took it with her, heading towards the sea. As she got onto her boat and pulled the Water Candle out, it began to attract the Mythical Creatures of the seas to her, only attracting her attention when  a Giant Shark began to circle around her.

With the match ended, Mina quickly sent some of her Servitors and Mythical Creatures to retrieve Hime as well as inform Amalia that Hime could no longer fight and Gilgamesh announced the winner. Quickly taking Hime to Mina's temple in Spectropolis, the unconscious hero quickly began to be healed by the waiting Illusia.

At Gilgamesh's orders in preparation for Taro's fight, Bahamut flew into the air and blocked the sunlight from entering as the hero and Rubi entered the field.

Rubi vs. Taro
The match started with the two slowly circling around one another with weapons in hand before Rubi grew temporary wings formed purely from blades and charged at the Vampire hero who quickly transformed into bats and flew to the other side of the arena. Following the bats as they flew, Rubi fired a few of the feathers from her wings as she slashed at his arm with her sickle, only to be blocked by his sword. As his blood reformed into bats and rats to bite Rubi, she quickly shifted, changing into her lupine form, then quickly changed to become made of pure fire, making the blood creatures turn into puddles. As Rubi then charged at Taro, he cast the first of the elemental Strides, temporarily protecting himself from fire long enough to seal his own wounds as Rubi shifted back and attempted to attack with a pair of ice sickles. Ducking down, Taro dodged the strike from the sickles and let blood condense around his blood sword before unleashing the blood in a "Bloody Fang," his version of Kagehana's Midnight Fang. Striking Rubi square in the chest, it knocked her into a wall where she collapsed unconscious.

Fight in the Cave
As the Elves and the Dragonborn fought with no clear winner in sight, Sonia and Itself came together and incredulously asked each other how the other had come to be on the same island. The Boquabians however, during all these miraculous (or cursed) events could do no more than watch on and hope for the best. Quickly, Itself and Sonia called for the attention of the combatants to tell them a few things before they left. In response to Sonia's question, Khadai and the Seven-Sin Sisters revealed themselves. Not long after, Madame A. Gant and two boys appeared, picking up Itself and Sonia before reinquiring as to what Gods existed in Gammara.

Meanwhile, having come back to consciousness in a tree, Brynhildr tried to sit up and move, only to fall back gasping for air as she came to realize that her lungs were broken. Hoping that she wouldn't die, Brynhildr was found a few minutes later by two young Centaurs, who stared at her in amazement without a word believing her to be a goddess.

Rest Before the Sixteenth Match
As the fight ended, the Watchman started to talk the Vandals with him only to notice that one was missing and turned around just in time to see Two Gods Sitting enter the arena.

Atlas vs. Two Gods Sitting
The match quickly began with Two Gods throwing a jar at Atlas' feet that exploded on contact, deafening many in the stands who were close by as a blade rocketed out of the explosion at Two Gods. Spinning around, Two Gods took the blow on her back, the blade deflected by the hard chitin shell that protected her wings. Feeling that he had struck something, Atlas quickly retracted his blade before slowly circling around the site of the explosion to find his opponent. Working quickly, Two Gods pulled several rods out of her cloak and quickly affixed them together before attaching a spearhead and charging at Atlas as soon as she saw him appear. In response, Atlas stretched out his other hand to impale the charging Vandal, however she leapt up into the air, flew up at an angle, then dropped towards Atlas, letting gravity do the damage for her. Atlas quickly retracted his blades, holding one up in front of him as a shield, the other like a spear to impale Two Gods. Twisting to the side, Two Gods landed on the larger blade and started bleeding from a wound on her leg thanks to the shorter blade, but her spear had pierced Atlas' leg, poisoning him. Two Gods leapt away, drawing three swords as the Endreakian hero quickly pulled the poisoned spearhead from his body, then slashed the ground, throwing rocks at Two Gods before slashing at her with blades from both his other arm and good leg. Blocking the first strike with four blades, Two Gods held her ground before being stabbed in the stomach by Atlas' leg as she dropped the blades on the ground, letting one shatter before drawing out a set of bolas, throwing them at Atlas then flying up just slightly. As the poison spread through his body, Atlas extended one blade to strike at Two Gods, the Vandal twisting to the side to avoid it, only for it to pierce her back where her wings emerged. Out of tricks, Two Gods surrendered, conceding the match to Atlas.

Rest Before the Seventeenth Match
As the match had been going on, Kyuuketsu wandered through Spectropolis and eventually came upon the dome where she sat down in one of the chairs and pondered what to do.

Having finished the work that they could do on the Core Temple for the time being, the goddesses currently in Mina's lands separated to do their own things with Suna deciding to go to Bluebell to shop around and see what she could find.

Drav entered the arena carrying the best equipment he owned as Lo-Kag arrived with his own armor and a sturdy club.

Lo-Kag: Tier 1: Stoneblessed
The match quickly began with Drav circling Lo-Kag cautiously before advancing as Lo-Kag charged, swinging his club at the Dwarf. Drav dodged the blow, countering with a chop at Lo-Kag's hands as the hero blocked with the armor on his arms and kicked the dwarf sending him flying backwards, grimacing. Lo-Kag quickly raised his club before swinging it back down to the land, leaving a crater in the ground as the Drav dodged to the side and swung his axe at Lo-Kag's legs. Backing away as his armored legs buckled from the blow, Lo-Kag then rushed back, making sure that only the tip of his club would be in range when he swung it. The club struck Drav's armor, breaking his arm as he jumped back to get some space to breath. As Lo-Kag then began to chase after the Dwarf, Drav decided that running was useless and charged at the Goliath. The two's weapons clashed, the club wielded by Lo-Kag gaining a large gash in the process as Drav attempted another controlled strike at his opponent with his axe. The Goliath struck back with his armor-covered limbs, waiting for his chance to strike back, eventually striking the dwarf with a kick, sending him flying into a wall and as he got up, he knew that he had a few broken bones. Switching his club to his better arm, Lo-Kag swung at Drav, connecting solidly and knocking him to the ground unconscious.

The Situation In the Caves Begins To Come To A Conclusion
Waking up in a rest room, Two Gods Sitting had a little talk with the Watchman how she could have won before inquiring as to where My Sisters Arms had gotten to. Learning that there were Dragonborn raiding villages in the fair Uburra-Namall's lands, the Watchman quickly sent the Veteran out to deal with the problem, along with a task force of Vandals. The first stop that the Veteran made on the island was to ask for Uburra-Namall's permission to land his troops upon the island in order to inspect anything unusual that had happened recently. The Love Goddess quickly gave her permission and the Veteran was on his way to render judgement upon foreign invaders in her lands.

Having been promised by the gods searching for Zaya to later do a deed for those who had helped them, Khadai and the Seven-Sin Sisters took their leave from the area where everyone was fighting. Not long after, a Watchdog found the seekers and called over the Veteran and his Vandals who marched in a few minutes later as the Veteran defused the situation with a single smite and rounded up all the offending Dragonborn before inviting all of the oddball gods over to Spectropolis to talk with the Watchman about their plans for the future. They quickly made the decision to go after a small amount of bickering and left Itself behind to do as it pleased. Taking everyone outside, the Veteran quickly began to interrogate those on both sides of the conflict as to what exactly had been going on. Learning of the trials that had befallen the Boquabians, the Veteran sent them all back to their village, then forced the marauding Dragonborn to go to an island off the coast of the island where Spectropolis lay. Three days later, the Dragonborn arrived on the island and awaited their fate.

The Boquabians returned home slowly with the bodies of their dead friends, as they did so, Uburra-Namall called them into one of her temples to show them an unbelievable sight as they laid their dead friends upon the altar of the temple and heard their goddess's words before leaving, renewed in faith.

Meanwhile, Brynhildr was picked up by the Centaurs, Kaita and Fidion, and taken to a centaur village where she was brought before the village doctor, Harkan. He quickly gave the ailing Succubus a vial of potion that turned her into a frog before taking her to a back room to be turned back into her real form.

Dermalk's Horrors Begin
In Crav's lands, a simple fishing village had begun to have nightmares, preventing anyone from getting a good amount of sleep. There were a few people who left, bringing with them tales of what had happened in their little village, allowing the tale to spread.

Rest Before The Watchman's Match
Taking the mortal, Magnus, Gilgamesh created the Council of Heroes and the Colleges of Magic to rule within his lands. He then bestowed upon Magnus the Cloak of Stars, an Artifact that would work only for someone who was otherwise helpless.

Aox quickly left Spectropolis after his night in the desert, taking a ship on the ocean to Mina's lands where he quickly found himself at the University of Elements and talked with Shige Yuri and her friends, learning of the basic history of Mina's lands and protections as well as what the institution he was at was. Hearing that Kagehana herself had learned at the University, Aox quickly signed up and was accepted as a student by Magnas who then left to prepare for the next day's class. Aox then began learning the basics of Môsôorikan magics from Tanizawa Miko and Ritsuko as he signed to learn Metal Magicks and Swordsmanship. Having learned the minimums, Aox left the archery range and set up a camp on the outskirts of the University of Elements and began to play with the stick that he'd found during his match with Kagehana.

In Bluebell, Suna wandered around before coming upon an amazingly crafted sword formed out of pure glass. Buying it, she returned to the University of Elements and stored it in a room dedicated to her before heading out to meet the one who had made it. Finding the abode of the sword's creator, Suna engaged in a quick conversation with the grandson, Kir Blazah, before joining his family for a quick meal. After the meal was finished, Suna went with Rurik outside and had a conversation about recognition of divinity as Rurik created a statue and attempted to give it to Suna, who blessed his family with a special power and handed the statue back, only it was changed to protect them for as long as they would keep it, before returning to the University of Elements where she then made the glass sword into the Artifact that would later become her Tool of Office.

Going into Gehenna, Lily and Kyouko reformed the lands within before creating the Gehenna-Bound and linking the plane itself to the Plane of Spirits and Mina's Temple in Spectropolis. Deciding to make it so that all temples would be places of safe worship, Illusia concentrated using her power to create the Sanctuary Effect.

As she was attacked by the mythical creatures and servitors of the seas, Maggie eventually let go of the Water Candle, letting it fall into the ocean where it was soon picked up by some Sea-Folk. They brought it before a Giant Shark who quickly attacked, agitated by the candle's presence before being stopped by the Sea-Folk's magic and the candle was sent elsewhere to be judged upon.

Meanwhile, Crav had just finished making an amazingly crafted flower out of gems before leaving his abode to present it to Uburra-Namall.

With the match between Lo-Kag and Drav finished, the Watchman and the Goliaths finally began their match.

Watchman vs. Eglath, Nalla, and Vimak Cont.
The match quickly began with the Watchman shrinking himself into a mortal guise to fight fairly with the three goliaths as Eglath and Vimak charged from either side and Nalla moved to circle around behind the Watchman. He quickly dodged the strike from Vimak's hammer as it made a crater in the ground and danced out of the way of Eglath's axe to be struck from behind on purpose by Nalla's club, falling to the ground before rising back up, encircled by all three. Eglath quickly took the chance to charge forward with his axe at the ready as Nalla fell back to prepare a spell and the Watchman dodged Eglath's axe before striking the Goliath's elbow and solar plexus. As he dodged a blow from Vimak's hammers, Nalla finished her spell, causing the ground to ripple, in turn making the Watchman stumble into another blow from Vimak's hammers and fly into the wall before getting up and charging at  Nalla while dodging a slash from Vimak's hammers. Nalla quickly tried the same trick again, only to get hit by a flying kick from the Watchman as she grabbed him and threw him back at the other two. Turning the throw into a spinning kick, the Watchman's strike collided with Vimak's hammers as Eglath swung his axe at the Watchman and Nalla charged forward to strike with her club. Grabbing onto the axe, the Watchman used its momentum to propel him towards the charging Nalla, who quickly raised her club in a defensive posture in surprise as Vimak ran forward to defend his teammate. The Watchman quickly danced around the Goliath's strikes before grabbing ahold and knocking him down to the ground unconscious as Eglath charged forward using the earth to launch himself at the Watchman as though he were flying. Grabbing one of Vimak's warhammers, the Watchman chucked it like a spear at Eglath, who dodged in another direction before resuming his flight towards the god. Grabbing the other warhammer, the Watchman knocked aside Eglath's axe and punched him square in the face, taking him out of the fight as Nalla threw her club at him before picking up Eglath's dropped axe. Th club collided with his arm's as the Watchman quickly undid the bindings on his legs as Nalla quickly swung the axe at the Watchman's neck. The Watchman blocked with the warhammer and was knocked back as he commented, "I don't suppose you would consider trading weapons? I'm fond of axes."

Refusing the offer, Nalla charged forward and the match finished after ten minutes of nonstop melee combat that ended with both weapons breaking apart as the Watchman threw Nalla to the ground unconscious and the crowd cheered.

Dermalk's Horrors
A few months after the rumors had begun, the village was visited by the Lycanthrope Acacia Firefur, who quickly noticed that the village appeared mostly deserted and entered, searched for the town hall as a Watcher observed unnoticed from above. She quickly located a man inside the building who warded her off with naught but a broom before sitting down and showing him that she meant no harm to him as a Cecaelia offered her help and made the residents of Dermalk not need sleep for awhile, until the situation could be resolved. The two soon slept as night fell in the village and they began to have the nightmares common in Dermalk. In the morning, the villagers darted in and out of the waves of the nearby sea, hungrily picking around for food scraps. The Watcher from earlier quickly began to interrogate the Cecaelia, Prisca, as to what she had dreamed and Acacia woke up.

In Spectropolis, a female Durhian crept around, searching for a hero who could help her family and friends back at home before coming upon the hero Thorn who quickly left to discover what he could about Dermalk's situation.

Revolution in Boquabia
Leaving the temple after having heard the words of their Goddess, Draias, Fandas, Rox, Linessa, and Gosso challenged the teachings of their elders, leading into a debate between the two sides, before a fight quickly broke out that was quickly stopped by the Vandals. They then left with others following them and the Vandals led by Shoving Another Down to protect them from harm with the Veteran's blessings.

Brynhildr's Trials Continue
Unbeknownst to Brynhildr, several of her former associates in Mina's lands began to plot to kill her and began their preparations to go where she was staying. Stealing a boat, they quickly arrived in Uburra-Namall's lands.

Rest Before the Eighteenth Match
With the Watchman's fight finished, Gilgamesh gave the Watchman the news that the three Goliaths he had just fought had already decided to move themselves and their families to Spectropolis and help in protecting it. The Watchman then left the arena and went to the dome at the center of Spectropolis to greet Madame A. Gant, Sonia and the twins from the situation in Uburra-Namall's lands as Gilgamesh ended the tournament for the day, leaving it for the next day's events.

In the Plane of Dreams, the Monsterking continued his plans, capturing souls for the creation of an unknown object and began to speed things up, moving to the second phase of his plans.

Returning Hime to their lands, Illusia, Suna, Magnas, Lily, and Kyouko quickly established the rules within Gehenna and reformed the area within the Plane of Spirits as they sunk a pair of Artifact swords within the river in the plane's center.

Discovering the powers of the magic that she had begun to use, Horizon experimented with its effects on different objects.

However the next day of tournament matches would never come...

Nightmare Invasion
The time of greatest loss and destruction during the First Age.

Gods Created At This Time

 * The Sucker
 * Pantheo (Temporary Fusion)
 * Paean

Creatures Created At This Time
Spirits of Madness, God-Eaters, Philosopher's Stone Slime, Colossi, Spirits of the Royal Guard, Battledogs,

Gods Lost At This Time

 * The Sucker
 * Zaya
 * Gilgamesh
 * Anima
 * Bahamut
 * Deva
 * Lore
 * Yojimbo
 * Sentinels
 * Sprites

Strife Continues in Boquabia
With directions givento them by the statue at the edge of Uburra-Namall's lands, the group of misfit demons and Youkai quickly found where Brynhildr was staying and quickly began arguing about what to do with her before bribing the doctor to allow them to do as they wanted with Brynhildr. As they took her outside the village and began to argue about what to do with her, Khadai and the Seven-Sin Sisters attemmpted to seduce the group to join the people of Uburra-Namall's lands, but failed as the group took its leave. Making a deal with the godesses, Brynhildr agreed to stay in Uburra-Namall's lands until the group that had come to kill her, got tired of waiting and decided to accept their fate in joining the people of Uburra-Namall's lands. She then took the time to go out on a ride in the Redwood Apple Groves near the village with Fidion and Kaita.

Meanwhile, the Boquabians who had left their village came to a stop in a grove as they took the journey to the lands of the Elves. As they rested, the Veteran made Shoving Another Down a hero as he left to go check on the Dragonborn.

The Nightmares in the Plane End
As all the drama in Spectropolis finished for the day, the Reasonable came to the end of his memory, only to be captured by the Snorkel Giants for the Monsterking and the Babysitter broke out of her memory only to end up in Zaya's. Zaya quickly asked what she had done to hurt the Babysitter and recieved a confused response in return before the two recognized one another.

Their conversation continued as the Plane continued to show Zaya's memories of what had happened on the world she had been born in. The Plane quickly showed Zaya dancing on the back of a beast of burden, attracting as much attention as she possibly could with magic shows. The Plane continued shifting, showing scenes from Zaya's past until it focused upon her learning from Bringer-of-Night, god of the Evening, Endings and Dark Secrets before eventually becoming a goddess herself. It continued on, showing her taking power of her old tribes as a sorceress-queen goddess with cults worshipping her due to fear and falling in love with Bringer-of-Night. It then shifted to show her ending the life of the world as she stole its power for Bringer-of-Night, before changing several times to show each of the lives that she had also lived. Asking what had happened after that, the Babysitter was then treated to seeing Zaya trapped in the dead world for ten-thousand years by the other angry gods as they left.

Aox's Training
In the morning, Aox was quickly woken up as he had made his camp in the area that the Tengu swordsmanship teacher, Kotaro Feathersword, had chosen for the practice and quickly began learning how to fight with swords alongside the heroes chosen by Mina's Pantheon. They began to talk with Sora asking for information on good blacksmiths within Crav's lands in order to finish a pair of gauntlets that he had been working on making.

The Horror Continues
The Watcher and Prisca quickly went into town and began to interrogate the people in Dermalk as to what had been happening in the town before being told to go to the Timber House. The two quickly went over to the house and scared the residents into letting them

Spectropolis Dome
The Watchman quickly greeted his visitors and made a quick bed for Sonia to sleep in before asking their names and plans for the future. The three quickly introduced themselves as Madame A. Gant, Goddess of Information, and Tez and Dez, the Gods of Magpies, Whirlwinds, and Sylphs.

Meanwhile, on the island that the Veteran had sent them to, Balasar's Dragonborn worked to make a boat to get them off of it and to Crav's lands as soon as possible.

Taking the time off from the tournament to form more creations, Gilgamesh worked quickly to create the Plane of the Kingdom and the Astral Tether as Mina and her pantheon made the Lightscape and the Plane of Opposite Balances. Gilgamesh then walked over to the dome and barged in on the meeting, commenting that there appeared to be new divine blood in Gammara as Bahamut reformed his lands with the power of the Astral Tether. Learning that Zaya was not currently in town, the Watchman quickly took the gods with him to the islands that Zaya ruled and finding Zaya's hideout once more, the group was quickly greeted by Zaya's 'head priestess' who quickly inquired into what they were doing in the Five Isles. The Watchman then used the mirror to scry Zaya's location nearly losing control of his own mind as he did so, before heading off with the group to inspect the lands of Mik Hael. As they did so, the Watchman created a Divine Artifact, the Equalizer, hoping that he wouldn't need to use it. Arriving at Mik Hael's lands, Gilgamesh temporarily fused with Deva as the group entered Mik Hael's crystal castle to find Grace in a room with the bodies of those inside the Plane of Dreams as Zaya teleported the Babysitter out of the Plane of Dreams with a box in her hands and the Veteran arrived in the room to help with whatever was needed.

Simultaneously, the knowledge of Pitching began to spread with advertising being done by the Vandal Horizon's demonstrations in order to get enough money to pay for buying grain.

In Uburra-Namall's lands, as the goddess recieved the gift of crystal flowers from Crav, Jassi entered the Plane of Creativity, only to find that it had somehow... changed to become darker with wierd creatures sneaking around in its regions.

As night fell in the city of Spectropolis, people became rowdy and shows began to start, Pessimal Tomes learned of the magic made by Horizon and began to make an article on it for the world to learn of it. At the same time, the Vandal Two Gods Sitting began to kill Witnesses in order to become stronger.

Realizing that they couldn't do anything for those in the Plane, the group began to quickly discuss what options they had as they checked the box and quickly realized that what it held was the Army of Jan and that Zaya had allowed the Babysitter to use it. The Babysitter opened the pithos and asked to save everyone within the Plane of Dreams, causing the jar to summon an army that quickly marched to follow the Babysitter's bidding. The Army quickly marched into the Plane of Dreams and began to fight against the monsters within as the Monsterking was quickly alerted to the matter, but virtually ignored it, sending only a portion of his army and merely sped up the rate of sacrifices. Simultaneously, Mik Hael began to hoard what power he had left to attempt to break out as the trapped heroes broke out of their nightmares and the Nightmare-version gods began to appear along with Muffin Clones in the Plane of Dreams to stop the Janites. Hearing Mik Hael talk in his sleep, the Watchman gave a burst of energy to Mik Hael to he broke out of his bonds as the Monsterking finished the blade he'd been working on making and began Sequence Apocalypta.

The Nightmares Begin
The news quickly spread around the world thanks to the Watchers and Watchdogs as Yojimbo made Balasar a hero and his band of Dragonborn into the Spirits of Madness, Bahamut postponed the tournament, Anima put his pantheon's Artifacts into total safety, Gilgamesh returned to his lands, Uburra-Namall and Mina began to mobilize all of the forces in their lands, and the moon shattered into countless pieces.... Simultaeously, all across the world, Snorkel Giants, shadow gods, and goblins rose to destroy the living. Seeing the destruction of the moon, Crav picked up a piece as an idea began to form in his mind, hopefully for when the terror had finished...

The seas went wild as the moon shattered and people all over the world began to combat against the monsters that had suddenly appeared while simultaneously trying to keep from having to deal with the raging seas, except for Mina's lands, protected as they were by Antilaw. As the fighting began, the fury of Uburra-Namall was unleashed as she created four more Precious Sentries and began to combat the nightmares that had been unleashed upon her poor Boquabians after giving the gods beneath her their future Tools of Office. Mina quickly headed toward the area of greatest concentrated power and forged from the air around her, a spear for Kyuuketsu to wield against their enemies as her heroes and gods moved to protect those in Môsôoriku and Spectropolis with the aid of the Nalla, Vimak, and Eglath in Gilgamesh's temple. Gilgamesh jumped into combat just as quickly with his gods and heroes aiding him in defending his lands as in Spectropolis, the monsters were attacked with a combination of weapons and Pitching. The Vandals and Witnesses fought the tide of monsters and nightmare gods as they herded the mortals that they could find into the dome at the center of Spectropolis and Illusia, Magnas, and Gravas did the same at the temples. Finding themselves rapidly running into fights, Kagehana and Two Gods Sitting fought nightmare versions of Mina and Gilgamesh respectively. Commander Shoving Another Down defended the Boquabians in her care as the Watchman finally learned of the moon shattering and used the gods from the memories of Zaya to connect with her to help her back into the world of the living.

Blasting apart every goblin, nightmare god and giant around her, Kagehana quickly cleared the area around her of nightmares as Two Gods Sitting came crashing in with an imitation of Gilgamesh. Quickly using the full power of her Artifacts, Kagehana quickly destroyed the nightmare Gilgamesh as Two Gods Sitting asked where she could get a weapon like Kagehana's. Learning that she needed the power of a god to get one, Two Gods Sitting quickly left to take down a nightmare Gilgamesh on her own as Kagehana continued to desttroy large numbers of the nightmares alone. Noticing that the nightmares were damaging the beautiful architecture of Spectropolis, Sonia quickly came to the city's aid and began to destroy the monsters in a whirlwind of 'structural retaliation.' Hazet Jr. quickly helped the Vandals as he enchanted the roads of Spectropolis near the central dome to make any nightmare creature that stepped foot on them to dance. In the central dome, drama developed as Pessimal and Mileena came to realize that they loved each other before a Spirit of Healing came in and healed the dying Milteos.

In Mina's lands, the people began to destroy the monsters they could from within the divine protections getting help from Aox as the lands were suddenly surrounded by black blood that started to flow up the sides of Antilaw to encase the people within. Deciding to send a message, the gods still within Mina's lands sent out Koriko and Fubuki with brand new artifacts, Kuro and Shiro to find Mina and Kyuuketsu and let them know of the situation. Hiding with illusions, Brynhildr protected both herself and the centaurs around her.

Grabbing onto the power handed to her by the Watchman, Zaya emerged from the Plane of Dreams and called back the Janites from their losing battle in the Plane of Dreams. The gods within the crystal fortress then left, running into Mina and Kyuuketsu as they did so. Learning of what had been going on while they had been inside the fortress, the gods then left for the Five Isles.

In her lands, Uburra-Namall continued to destroy the monsters as she could, but the neverending tide of monsters began to tire her heroes as the battle wore on. Realizing that she needed to isolate her lands from the rest of the world in order to win the battle within her lands first, Uburra-Namall created a barrier around her lands and the Godstorm to smite her enemies as she called all of those under her banner to fight their enemies.

On their way to the Five Isles, the Watchman took a quick break, handing the Pearl Sword to an Undine for her mistress before rejoining the group on its way to the Five Isles.

Two Gods Sitting continued her fight against the nightmares only to end up facing three nightmare Gilgameshes simultaneously. With a combination of luck and skill, the Vandal took down all three, losing her arm in the process, but gaining a new one as material from the monsters quickly flowed onto her arm, remaking it for her. She then quickly hid under a copy of the god's armor and fell into a sleep similar to that of a caterpillar's in a cocoon.

As the horrors continued, the warriors who protected many, found, much to their dismay that the monsters, when destroyed, would infect many beings around them turning them into mindless abominations who hungered for destruction. In Spectropolis, Pike quickly arrived to destroy abominations and monsters in the defense of Waverider as the Watchman and Zaya came to realize the full extent of the damage from the monsters and saw a creature of horrible powers thought to be extinct through use of Zaya's Mirror. From the Plane of Genasi, the heroes of Gilgamesh marched into the fray in Gilgamesh's lands, leading an army untouched by the nightmares destroying the physical realm.

Further checking what was going on, Zaya quickly realized that there were two God-Eaters instead of one. Reading the information, she realized further that one was heading to Mina's lands for the power the Antilaw gave off and the other towards Uburra-Namall's lands for the power of the Godstorm. Running out of Zaya's cave, the Watchman quickly headed for one of the God-Eaters and threw the Equalizer at the creature, harming it, but losing the weapon in the process. Having attracted its attention, the Watchman then lead it towards the other God-Eater heading towards Uburra-Namall's lands. As Uburra-Namall led the second beast away from her lands, the Watchman turned the first God-Eater into The Sucker, God of the Nightmare Gods. Successful with his ploy, the Watchman fell towards the sea as the Sucker and the God-Eater rushed towards each other tp rip one another to shreds, only to be caught by Zaya in the form of a warrior in red and gold armor on a blood-red horse. She then took him to Uburra-Namall for assistance as Waverider reawoke to her powers as Goddess of the Seas and Sea-Life, destroying the monsters in the area around her. Leaving the city, Waverider returned to the sea, taking with her Raka and the Watcher and Watchdog that had helped her so much.

Pantheo Arises
As the the God-Eater and the Sucker clashed with the Sucker losing, Gilgamesh called his pantheon to him, fusing with them to become Pantheo. Landing upon his lands, Pantheo roared in joy at the thought of the coming conflict, creating Magicite in the process and unleashing a wave of heroism upon Gammara. Pantheo then flew out, destroying the Sucker as he engaged in combat with the God-Eater. With the death of the god that represented them, the nightmare gods withered, disappearing from the world, and though the mortals had one less threat to deal with, they still had to worry about the other mosters that were still around.

Attacking the God-Eater with his blade, Pantheo let loose the full power of the Domain of Power, making the creature unleash a roar that shook the heavens, causing stars to fall from the skies, raining down as spears of fire. Picking up a portion of a star, Zaya used it to revive the dying Watchman back to full power. As the God-Eater raked its claws across the god, making his blood splatter across the walls of his lands, before turning into Philosopher's Stone Slime before Pantheo unleashed the power of his breath, warping the area around the god-Eater into pure flames. In response, the God-Eater began to claw and bite the area around itself as Pantheo attacked relentlessly with his swords and flames.

Returning to her lands, Uburra-Namall began to search for a cure for the Nightmare Virus as the Watchman and Zaya accompanied her. As the God-Eater began to lose, it swiped with its tail at Pantheo, knocking him into the sea floor. Enraged, Pantheo grew himself four more arms, lifting the God-Eater into the air before biting it and unleashing his breath into its innards. As the beast roared yet again, Pantheo raised the two of them into the air before wrenching off the God-Eater's head and placed it in the Plane of Heroes.

Seeing the chaos run rampant, the enraged Crav fused with Von Trapt and Sonia as he headed towards Uburra-Namall's  lands, creating the Colossi to protect the innocent as he did so. Meanwhile, in Mina's lands, Aox began to hear whispers that taught him the name of the stick he held: Truth.

The Monsterking Appears
In Gilgamesh's lands, Magnus carried out research on exactly what the nightmare gods' bodies were like as well as those of the goblins and Snorkel Giants. As he did so, outside Mina's lands, the Monsterking appeared, holding the Divinity-Draining Sword before thrusting it into Antilaw to drain its power.

Collapsing upon his throne, Pantheo let 8 rays of light fall upon 8 Spirits of Possible Heroes turning them into his Spirits of the Royal Guard as Mina and Kyuuketsu flew back home to destroy those who would attack their lands. Grabbing hold of a Watcher, Pantheo inquired as to what was going on in the world and learning of the Monsterking's presence in Mina's lands, he quickly jumped up and flew to Mina's lands engaging the Monsterking in combat as Aox unleashed Truth's full powers.

Having set down on Uburra-Namall's lands, the Watchman quickly created the Divine Artifact, Brother Eye to destroy the remaining goblins within her lands as Zai the Thinker, Draias, and Harkan began to do research on how to stop the Nightmare Virus. Having returned to Spectropolis, the Veteran stared confusedly at the goblins and other monsters trying to kill the residents in the dome while trying to pull off an elaborate dance number. Taking some of the Watchdogs, the Veteran quickly turned them into Battledogs before charging into the fray with all of the people of Spectropolis nearby helping him.

Pantheo and the Monsterking quickly clashed, the Divinity-Draining Sword stealing power from Muramasa as Pantheo thrust his blade forward with the full force of the Well of Eternity. Simultaneously, Mina and Kyuuketsu arrived, striking with the power of gravity, magnetism and Akatonbo as Aox jumped into the air to join the fight.

Learning of Gilgamesh attacking the Monsterking, the Watchman rocketed off, taking with him Brother Eye as Crav arrived in Uburra-Namall's lands on one of the Colossi, a bright burst of rainbow colors appearing behind him.

Pantheo's Fall
Nearly defeated by Mina and Kyuuketsu's strikes, the Monsterking formed then fired jagged spears of black blood while healing himself with a cocoon of power that were quickly stopped by Kyuuketsu's powers as Aox spiraled upwards striking the Monsterking with a single punch. Falling into the ocean, the Monsterking was quickly greeted by an angry Waverider before quickly making the earth explode with the power of his Servitors as he quickly reappeared on the Demonwall. The blast struck quickly knocking Mina into the sky and Kyuuketsu back into their lands as Aox was harmed then remade his body fully, and Pantheo was struck, but released a wave of Conflict before charging once more at the Monsterking.

As the wave of Conflict spread through Gammara, causing much death as the Vandals under Shoving Another Down broke ranks and chargeed heedless of their coming deaths, the people in Spectropolis fought one another, killing indiscriminately as the Veteran and Illusia knocked out as many survivors as they could, Brynhildr ripped apart centaurs, the Babysitter restrained Fishfolk and Sea Hags in the Five Isles, and the people in Mina's lands began to heal the wounded and clean up devastation from the blast. As she felt the deaths of many a mortal from the wave of conflict, compassion flooded her heart and Zaya took all of the souls with her that did not otherwise have a place to go to and created Zaya's Garden, burning up all of her power in the process as her mirror shattered and her soul had to retreat to the garden to recover. As her last act in Gammara, Zaya made her Avatar, her Head-Priestess, a male and a god in his own right, Paean.

Meanwhile, the fight between Pantheo and the Monsterking continued as the Monsterking became ever stronger, until with one final, desperate strike, Pantheo made an explosion within his vicinity. When it cleared, Pantheo staggered back into the sea and fell apart, Gilgamesh's body entering the void even as his power destroyed him and sent his entire Pantheon into the void, his last thought was that he'd conquered even himself.

Though alive from his battle against Pantheo, the Monsterking had been wounded and his Divinity-Draining Sword, shattered. In Gilgamesh's lands, his heroes rose from their bloodlust, realizing that they had slain their own troops. However, duty rose over sorrow as they continued to exterminate the monsters in their homeland. As the smoke cleared, the Watchman entered the scene with Aox and after a few words of greeting, dashed at the Monsterking and created once more, the Equalizer. The Monsterking, despite his waning power due to Zaya's Garden, sidestepped the Watchman's blow and materialized his own axe, slashing at his enemy as the Watchman blocked with his haft under the Monsterking's axe's blade and headbutted with his mask. Moving away, the Monsterking made spires of black crystal appear, along with large numbers of monsters, walking away through one of the spires as the Watchman sprayed a beam at the spire, blasting the monsters for miles around and making large holes in the Demonwall, even as the Monsterking made a copy of the Brother Eye and sprayed the Watchman back, knocking him into a parapet as he told Aox to follow the Monsterking.

End of the Nightmares
Appearing on the lands of gilgamesh, the Monsterking began to channel the power of the Artifacts that had been left behind, creating a portal in the sky as Aox flew over as fast as he could to stop him. Meanwhile, the thinkers in Uburra-Namall's lands finally finished making a cure for the Nightmare Virus, and with Crav's aid, spread it all over the world, allowing the destruction of the monsters, once and for all. With his work in Uburra-Namall's lands done, Paean returned home to the Five Isles as the Babysitter weeped for the loss of Zaya.

Flying high above Gilgamesh's lands, the Monsterking's portal neared completion as Aox arrived nearly blasting the Monsterking with a giant sphere of electrical power. Forming spear from the air, the Monsterking strcuk at Aox even as the hero dodged and formed his own longsword, crackling with electricity. He then swung his sword and unleashed thousands of sparkling bolts as the Monsterking responded with a wave of dark power. Meanwhile, in the Plane of Dreams, Mik Hael finally managed to reach the throne of the Monsterking, before teleporting out next to the Demonwall and picking up the remains of the Divinity-Draining Sword, Mik Hael flew to Gilgamesh's lands to aid Aox in stopping the Monsterking.

Clapping his hands together, Aox formed a shield of energy before raising his hand up, gathering together a cyclone and unleashing a dragon-esque stream of energy as the Monsterking dodged as well as he could, though not successfully, but returned fire with spears of light in an attempt to bind the hero... in the back of their battle, the portal rippled. Aox dodged the spears easily, firing off smoky projectiles that the monsterking in turn knocked aside before unleashing a wave of roaring light as the hero wrapped himself in a cocoon of air.

Having remade the remnants of the sword into a bracelet, Mik Hael then joined in the fight, appearing just as the Monsterking sealed Aox within an endless loop of portals.

The two then began to fight with the Monsterking unleashing a wave of disks that Mik Hael parried with a wave of force to disperse the disks, only to have to dodge as the Monsterking attacked with a copy of the Equalizer. Continuing with his dodge, Mik Hael kicked the Monsterking in the head before attemting to strike with the Invisible Blade as the Monsterking blocked with the Gauntlet of Order and wrapped black chains around Mik Hael's neck. Smirking, the Monsterking then proceeded to drag Mik Hael across the ground, only for Mik Hael to cut the chains and turn towards him. As his foe turned, the Monsterking grabbed hold of space and summoned a figure of darkness from the depths of memory. Switching his bracelet into its large clawed gauntlet form, Mik Hael absorbed the creature into his weapon, killing the life in the area around him before expelling the energy in a blast of darkness coated with flames.

The Monsterking then summoned copies of the Barrels of Void and Power using one of them to absorb the blast, then firing it out of the other at the portal, letting the portal absorb the blast's power. The two then proceeded to have a quick conversation before the Monsterking proceeded to form a blade of darkness as he then slashed at his opponent. Dodging to the side as a tendril of darkness slashed where he'd just been standing, draining all life from the earth it touched, Mik Hael swung with his sword, knocking it away before it quickly arced back towards him. Dodging it yet again, he barely blocked another strike from the Monsterking. From there the two fought, their swords clashing as they fought in a dizzying display of teleportation and 3-dimensional combat before the Monsterking finally managed to send his opponent sprawling on the ground. As he flew down to check Mik Hael's status, he quickly swooped in to kill the chaotic god as soon as he saw him attempting to escape via a portal, throwing up a cloud of dust as he did so. When the dust finally cleared, the Monsterking's sword appeared to be impaled in Mik Hael's heart only to have it explode into a flurry of dust as he looked down to see claws of energy embedded in his chest from behind. Walking back into reality from the Plane of Dreams, Mik Hael conversed shortly once more with his associate before stealing the life force from the Monsterking until he was naught but a withered husk. Absorbing the power from his defeated foe, Mik Hael transformed as a ring of darkness washed over his form before collapsing next to the withered husk.

As the fight ended, the portals around Aox dissolved, leaving him looking out upon a devastated battlefield with a  portal raging out of control. As he looked around, an audible crack resounded throughout the world as the portal stabilized itself and something clawed its way through, emerging from the center. Seeing the dread creature emerge, Aox stood paralyzed in fear before Truth gave him the power to stand tall and strong and flew at it with a punch of apocalyptic power at the ready.

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Then the loudest explosion in the history of Gammara or all of existence ripped across the world.

Gods Created During This Time

 * The Spymaster
 * Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes

Creatures Created During This Time

 * Gills

Aftermath of the Nightmare Invasion
With the Mosterking and his monsters destroyed, the world began to heal, though the nightmares from that day would never be fully healed over. The finally tally had been nearly half of the world's population destroyed, disregarding the unharmed in Mina's lands and the casualties of the seas. The Reasonable had been recovered, though his mind had been damaged as he lay alone with the Babysitter by his side. Mina had been checking to make sure that Antilaw was undamaged as her races had moved to other lands temporarily in order to help those in need. Crav had stayed holed up as he had worked on a project secretly from the rest of the world. As well, Mik Hael, the Monsterking, and Aox were deemed by the world to be missing, their current whereabouts unknown at the time.

Months later, the call was quickly sent out to the other gods, calling for them to meet in Spectropolis. As she left her lands with Kyuuketsu, Mina was quickly told by a pair of Watchers that the Watchman wanted an audience with her and made their way to Spectropolis first with Kagehana taking them before heading down to the tunnels of the Vandals to converse with the Watchman. In the center of a giant audience chamber, the Watchman greeted Mina and Kyuuketsu before getting on to business. The Watchman and Mina quickly agreed to say that the Monsterking had unleashed the wave of conflict and Gilgamesh destroyed the Divinity-Draining Blade in order to stop him with the last of his power, thus defining the term 'heroism,' in order to minimize the damage among the mortals' minds. The three then separated, Mina making her official arrival to Spectropolis in a near-blinding halo of light before being taken to the dome where The Spymaster awaited her presence and asked whether she had met with the Watchman. The next to make an appearance was Uburra-Namall as she appeared with several rainbows trailing behind in her wake before being taken to the dome by Watchdogs on the Veteran's orders, but her pantheon split off from her as Jassi left to help the injured. After her came the Crafter and his pantheon, though he arrived limping for fusing with Sonia and Von Trapt had made his legs become withered and near useless, as well, Aox's whereabouts were unknown and he worried for his hero.

Meanwhile, Mik Hael made his reappearance within Spectropolis with the withered Monsterking in his grasp before jumping down before the Veteran and inquiring as to who he himself was as the Watchman came over. As the Watchman took Mik Hael with him, the Veteran took Jassi over to the areas where they were keeping the mentally injured and the pure goddess began to help the poor children. The Watchman began to inquire what had happened and quickly learned that the chaos god had somehow gotten amnesia as they walked over to the dome and Dephos half-tackled, half-hugged her master. Arriving in the dome, Crav quickly began conversing with Mina, inquiring into whether she knew where Aox was and recieved, unfortunately, a complete negative as more gods arrived, with Hazet's pantheon arriving in grim silence before being lead to the dome. Simultaneously, a Kraken  appeared in the harbors before taking on a humanoid form and walking to the dome as Draemar sorcerors from the Magocracy arrived at the Southern gates and a Dwarf arrived by boat from the Iron Kingdom. From Gilgamesh's lands came Gilgamesh the Second in full battle regalia, the Scabbard of Many Blades by his side as he strode alone to the dome, the representative of all of Eternus and Paean arrived, taking the seat that had been Zaya's. The Draemar from the Magocracy were quickly greeted by several Pitching students before their leader, Auda, was quickly lead to the dome by Horizon.

Meeting of the Gods
As soon as all the gods and dignitaries had arrived, the meeting quickly started after some small talk was finished about each nation and the mortals who had come to watch were seated. As the meeting began, the withered body of the Monsterking was revealed as the Watchman and Paean told all the gathered that Zaya was deceased due to the disaster. Gilgamesh the Second then attempted to threaten the gods with hos death should something happen, but was quickly told by the Watchman that it would not work, not in Spectropolis. Bored, Mik Hael quickly suggested that he should leave, but was quickly told no by the other gods before the Monsterking's body began to turn the area around itself into a full memory of what had happened and the other gods jumped into action, striking at the corpse while protecting all of the mortals in the area. Mik Hael quickly teleported the Monsterking, himself and Dephos away from the attacks, but still within the room before Von Trapt pounded on the table, telling everyone to sit down. Gilgamesh the Second quickly demanded the head of both Mik Hael and the Monsterking before being told of the dire consequences that would occur if a god were to be slain. Deciding on a different course of action, the gods stated that locking up the Monsterking would be a better option before recombining with Mik Hael to form into the true Mik Hael, who it was decided after some debate, did not have to pay for the actions of only a portion of himself. With the issue of the Monsterking finished, the Watchman gave a speech:

With his speech finished, the Watchman then gave to each of the gods at the table, a piece of crystal that reformed itself to become a symbol of their power and would allow them to communicate with one another at any time they chose: the Storyteller System. With the matter of communications finished, Gilgamesh the Second then presented to Crav the decision of the Council of Heroes: they wished for him to lead their lands in the absence of their gods. As the Crafter accepted and none of the gods objected, Waverider revealed the existence of the Water Candle to all in the dome and inquired angrily as to who had created such a foul Artifact. Though they recieved no answer as to whom had made it, the gods allowed Mina to destroy the Artifact in a blast of mortal magic with enough power to destroy a country before Waverider revealed yet another bombshell on those gathered: she had found a reptilian race within her seas, helpless and without language or culture. Quickly interrogating one of the creatures, the gods quickly realized that the creatures had been created from the death of Pantheo and Gilgamesh the Second made the oath that those of Gilgamesh's lands would help their new cousins in any way they could, though the race would stay in the lake around Spectropolis until a better solution could be found. Continuing with the meeting, the Watchman input into book form, all of the events that had happened since the beginning of the conflict between Gilgamesh and Hazet, minus of course the parts that he and Mina had agreed upon, before placing copies before every god and random mortals. Finishing up his part of the meeting, the Watchman extended his thanks to the gods (Sonia, Hazet Jr., Illusia, Magnas, and Gravas) who had aided in the defense of Spectropolis and offered each of them a boon, should they ever desire it of him.

As the gods went through the process of their meeting, The Reasonable finally woke up to find himself in a room of stuffed toys with The Babysitter. Meanwhile out in the desert, Two Gods Sitting underwent a process to create a new creature.

As the meeting between the gods wound up, Crav revealed the biggest surprise that none expected: a new Moon. This gift to the world was met with cheers by many mortals and tears of joy from several of the gods.

And so the first age came to a conslusion with Crav's unveiling of the new moon.