The Time of Troubles left the Gods no longer high and untouchable!
Though there had always been struggles among the Gods in the past, no matter the casualties, the ultimate impact fell only on the Churches and worshippers. But everything was different now; failure meant that even a deity might fall forever.
The fall of the Lord of Morning was inevitable.
This was because his relationship with the Lord of Radiance was too close, and his power was not strong enough!
As a deity who inherited a portion of the original Lord of Radiance's portfolio, the Lord of Morning, possessing merely a Lesser Divinity, would be killed without hesitation by many deities of the Lawful Evil alignment the moment a single opportunity was seized in battle.
The Lord of Morning was dead.
Part of his divinity and portfolio returned to the Lord of Radiance, while another part scattered across the Material Plane.
When this deity fell, all the temples that served him decayed within a mere few days. The Church of the Lord of Morning was merged into other pantheons, and after the deity's fall, the worshippers also began to believe in other gods without the slightest hesitation. Clerics lost the ability to cast divine magic; under such circumstances, only a very small number of clerics would hold fast to their faith, and most would quickly join other churches.
The radiance upon the temple had dissipated.
Yet when Soren brought Vivian to the temple, he discovered that everything inside looked as though it had been ransacked.
Soren mobilized a trace of divine power.
Accompanied by the activation of the [Tracking] portfolio, he looked at the temple for a moment, then spoke softly to Vivian: *"It wasn't thugs who attacked the temple. It was the clerics who originally belonged here who