War in Heaven
War in Heaven was the war of vengeance the goddess Prignam waged against Emperor Raeus and the Jonorn empire upon discovering that Raeus, her own mortal consort, elevated to co-emperor after his defense of Nurrheim at the First Voityllic Rift, was the secret lover of her son Akura.
The war’s casualty list includes the greatest civilization Nurrheim had ever known, the goddess herself, the god whose grief began the duel that ended it, and the supercontinent of Mokrae.
The Burning
Prignam’s forces ground down the Jonorn legions across the breadth of Mokrae. Within years, no army the Emperor could field stood. The goddess cornered Raeus personally and dealt him the mortal wound that ended the Jonorn golden age. Akura arrived too late: he could only cradle his dying lover.
The Duel
Consumed by grief and rage, Akura challenged his mother to single combat. Prignam struck him down with a wound that should have killed him outright, but Maelkior, the primordial entity inhabiting Akura’s sword, seized control of the dying god’s body and pressed the attack. Maelkior mortally wounded the goddess in return. Prignam retreated to the heavens, where she rests upon her deathbed to this day, not quite dead and never to recover.
Akura died shortly after the duel. To honor his friend’s love and legacy, Maelkior continued to wear the god’s name, declaring himself Akurakhaithan, and fled into a banished kingdom with Akura’s sister Galadiam. The entity now called Akurakhaithan is not Akura. It is Maelkior wearing a friend’s name like a shroud, devoted to finishing what they began together.
The Fracture of the Daia
Among the dragons of Hhargtkle’s line, the three princes split. Oglethar sided with Prignam, alongside his son Moothgar and the Dai’dou. Niverine and Ættiraxes sided with Raeus and earned the slur Doghul, “the beast that knelt”, for choosing a mortal over a god.
On Prignam’s command, Oglethar slew his own brother Ættiraxes, the first fratricide among Hhargtkle’s children, committed while their father watched helplessly. The wound did not close. Ættiraxes’ surviving sons, Yyantranu and Elbikezzir, inherited their father’s hatred of Oglethar in full, and carried it generations forward.
The Reshaping
In the aftermath, Oykrig tore the supercontinent of Mokrae apart in a grief-fueled rage at the climactic moments of the war, splitting it into the continents now called Mok and Raetun. His daughter Braekhun drowned the central capital region where Raeus’ empire had stood; the highest surviving peaks emerged as the Northern Isles, where the dwindling Jonorn would take their last refuge.
The war ended. The world that survived it was not the world that had begun it.