THE DEMON GODS

The only known gods born from the fruit of the tree of life after the original immortal blessed. After nearly 50,000 years, the great mother lived in Sanctuary with her followers protecting the tree of life. It had been long since the other gods had forgotten of the location of the tree and they lived in relative isolation. 

It was a time of prosperity in the great desert and the 20,000 year cycle had made the arid sands a lush grassland once more. This in turn brought the dangers of discovery from those that would abuse the power of the tree of life. 

There was a large slave caravan that ventured east across the planes. The guardians ambushed the caravan and brought the slaves and prisoners back to sanctuary to face trial. 

There the slaves were offered a chance to join the followers of the great mother. Among them, two of the slaves were approached by a the high shaman of the great mother, Fenit. He explained that they protected the tree of life and that the promise of the tree of life was immortality to any how were worthy. 

He then told them that none who had ever attempted to partake of the fruit had ever lived the experience of eating of the fruit. 

But there was a way. He had found ancient glyphs in the caves deep in the mountains near a flooded well that was once a dried up cave. It looked like a once sacred place that appeared to tell the birth of immortal beings that he had never heard of. The history of the immortal blessed. This was once a sacred temple that was flooded when the desert returned to grassland. 

He had come up with a plan to corrupt fruit from the tree by macerating the fruit and mixing it with a large ratio of blood. It should work and would prevent them from having to protect a growing tree from the other guardians and from the great mother herself who always seemed to know exactly what happens in her realm. 

There were other slaves that they had rescued before that he had made similar promises too. Three times they tried and had what they considered partial success, of the former slaves had actually survived all of them had turned into something else. To the high shaman, this meant that there was too much fruit to blood ratio. He didn’t know if they would actually be immortal but they had definitely become more than human. 

The fourth was his wife, Serand who had been on her death bed. Serand still looked more human than the other three had but still with fairly significant changes to her body. 

There names in order of their transformation are; 

Menodas

Henoth

Temo

Serand

These two new slaves, Drendomaron and Brenath, were greedy and vengeful and had been criminals long before being captured and sold into slavery. They sought to exact revenge against those that had sold them into slavery and have the power over all mortal men. With this in mind they didn’t hesitate to take the high shaman up on his offer. 

This time the High Shaman Fenit, was sure that his plan would work and he prepared the ritual. He had gathered blood from the slavers and slaves alike that had been captured and killed when the caravan was destroyed. 

With an overwhelming confidence that it would work the way he wanted this time, 

They partook of the corrupted fruit and were changed much as the first had. They became the seven Demon Gods. Immortal but not quite human anymore. They came out transformed as they didn’t have the blessings of the original gods to protect them in the way that the original blessed did. 

 They fled the Sanctuary and were the only ones to ever successfully leave Sanctuary with the exception of one other that fled at the beginning of the 10,000 year war. 

The Great Mother after discovering the betrayal of one of her most trusted shaman, sent slaves into the old sunken temple and had them destroy it. They ground the place to dust. Once completed she had the slaves, guardians and shaman, that were responsible for carrying out the task, ritually sacrificed for none could see the ancient records and live.