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[edit] Chaos of the Gods Cycle
- In due time Viva gave birth to Senescence, the immortal human. Since he was born of Viva, he was given the blood-bond of immortality, so that he could call himself a lesser deity in his own right. But, as he was also half human, he felt humanity's need to dominate, and thus strove to combat the gods and demigods. He proved himself when he overcame the combined power of Scipios's undead and some of Lamoth's minions in a major engagement that resulted in a serious weakening of Lamoth's side but also in Lamoth's obtaining the occasion to adulterate Senescence's half-purity so that he became defiled with the darkness within Lamoth.
- The poison drove him half-mad, so that in his unbridled fury he struck out at his mother Viva and bit her, thereby allieving much of his pain to Viva. Viva, being a deity, was able to transfer this poison away from herself. In a grand sacrifice, she directed this poison into the greater of her creations, the animals, the only ones which could act as a vessel, and thus cursed them with a need to consume the lesser half of her creations, the plants.
- Hence, Viva was torn between the needs of the two sides, and in her despair also cursed the humans and subsequently fled from active participation in the Overworld's activities. Meanwhile, she cursed her own son, Senescence, so that he would bring a scourge upon the Midworld that would cause all mortal beings to age, before dying himself.
- However, Viva's actions angered Zamn, as they directly posed a threat to the survival and well-being of his children, the humans. Hence, he called together another trial of the Divine Court, where Zamn and almost all of the other gods, each driven by the wish to gain more influence and power, found Viva guilty. Zyr0 had allied with Scipios to form a front by which many of the deities of the Two Planes agreed that Viva's punishment would be for Orsinius to swallow her--a painful procedure for both Viva and Orsinius. This came about because Scipios had always been Viva's arch-enemy, and Zyr0 was planning to vanquish his twin brother, Orsinius, and knew what would soon happen.
- But for Scipios, the plan backfired, as when Viva was consumed by the giant Orsinius, the two combined grew too hot for the Overworld to sustain the two. Indeed, Orsinius was the exemplar of brute force, while Viva was the mistress of vital force. The two, when combined, burned a temporary hole in the fabric of the cosmos, puncturing through the Overworld and fleeing into the endless expanse of Aether, from where this second and lesser archon
