Yazj

Yazj, once known as the Father-god or the Higher One, and now commonly refered to as the Fallen or the Darkener is one of the deities of the High Pantheon and the former avatar of the star Zael. Once a benevolent being of unimaginable powers, Yazj was willingly emprisonned in the newly terraformed Zael after the great war which opposed Karathrod's brethrens to Xa-Ma-Dar the all consuming, and acted as the living essence of the planet for the first thousand years of its existence. Having fathered both the Primordial Gods and the Manaës in his attempt to shape Zael as a stable and harmonious world, he is seen as the first and most central figure of terrestrial cosmogony and the most influent being in the whole of Zael's history.

While a being with peaceful intentions, Yazj was indirectly responsible for the Divine War which opposed the Pantheon and their Svart servents to the Prime, having polarized Zael between two groups of violent and jealous entities. As he throned as a guide and father-god in the Pantheon, Yazj was unable to ease the ardent fury of his progeny and watched as the entities of Zael consumed the world. As the Svarts drew imaginable powers from the nether and weakened the structures of the star-planet, Yazj grew mad and isolated himself, seemingly abandonning the world to the recklessness of his creations. However, as the Divine War came to a breaking point of cataclysmic resonnance, and having planned in secret to turn the Manaës on each other and thus bring an end to the apocalyptic war, Yazj betrayed the Pantheon during the episode known as the Great Plot, resulting in the death of many of the Manaës and the Shattering of the Pantheon.

Seeing that the dissolution fo the Manaës's unity wasn't enough to put an end to the Divine War, Yazj then sought to unleash the powers contained within the nether to wipe out Zael and built it anew, encouraging the Svart to use excessive magic against the elemental forces. He was however prevented to do so by the intervention of his angered sons Serkam and Udjet, who neutralized and eventually destroyed his physical form, scattering the pieces of his corpse across the world. The subsequent betrayal of the svart prophet Aman eventually prevented the void to destroy Zael, at the cost of his life, that of his people and of the Gods existence in the concrete.

In spite of his demise at the hands of his sons, Yazj's essence survived both within the void and in the concrete world, and is believed to continue influencing the course of history to this very day.