Records of the Grey Fire

Steel Realms

The Records of the Grey Fire really refers to the calling and coming of the “Grey Gods” as a whole. They each have their own histories beyond that, as they are not an integrated pantheon.

The “partisan” gods of the Affray of Light and Darkness left many ideas and opportunities with little support. It was thought that more divine entities may be able to provide a balance of forces, a chance of stability and equilibrium. While the outcome did help to provide this, the entities that were formed as a result of this did not subscribe to any plan or directives of the summoning body. As part of the ritual, the desired effect of siphoning some of the divine power from those entities on Helca worked, but it also bound all of them more to the planet itself, adding another step in the awakening of Living Helca.

Chronicle of the Grey Fire

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Calling of the Gray Gods: (CY 14) With the power of the Green Host and Celestials spent, the races looked to the skies for aid. Unable to contact their olden gods for aid, they sought new ones. Magi gathered and began to record the knowledge of their craft, for fear it would be forgotten so many were dying in defending. They too conjured and called, seeing what powers they may contact. This all reached a distant place wherein dwelled the free entities of the “grey gods” – gods of power and energy, untamed forces. They gave the magi the knowledge of how to safely activate the gate in the valley again. The priest of the olden gods divided along the lines of the new ones, and to each was born a clergy that would call their god across the gulfs, through the gate that the magi would activate once again. And so they traveled, protected by an army of men, into the Valley of Sighs and returned with the new gods – the Gray Gods of Elancil, Ezrilus, Mizras, and Malek.

Rare Knowledge / Very Hard Difficulty

Little Known: There was a grey court among the Orrish – Elder shamans of the ORrish that had seen the destruction of their home and were watching the destruction of their new home. They had brought the balefire blood spilled by Sun Stealer on the Godsrage Plain. They had enough of the death and violence, and had followers that sought a way out of the afterworld of the Unholy Trio. These willing sacrifices’ blood was mixed with the Balefire and the shamans contacted the druids of the wyld to broker a meeting with the priests of the Lightbringers. Together they were the Grey Council and decided that without further intervention, the gods would destroy the world or at least the populations of their followers.

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