The Death Crow calamity drove the Evil Spirit Empire's native Purple-Scaled Murlocs, Bone-Spined Porcupines, and Wandering Goblins to flee in droves to neighboring empires. They began believing in new temple doctrines in search of protection, abandoning their former faith in the Evil Spirit God.
For temple priests, gaining more power of faith without going through war was naturally an excellent thing. After all, the great gods did not care what race provided that power of faith. Yet the cause of the calamity within the Evil Spirit Empire still had to be uncovered. Everything there had happened far too suddenly.
Moreover, no one could be certain whether this calamity would spread to their own lands.
Many empires bordered the Evil Spirit Empire. This was a gathering place for foreign evil gods, most of whom were merely low-ranking gods. The occasional one or two middle-ranking gods had almost no influence on Gods Continent. As for High-Gods, they were as rare as phoenix feathers and qilin horns even on Gods Continent, and no High-Gods had yet been heard of among the evil god factions. Thus, they were the most oppressed of all divine factions. They could only establish temples in remote, barren lands and build systems of faith from motley tribes of low-intelligence creatures.
Among the empires bordering the Evil Spirit Empire, the Just Empire belonged to the continental god faction. Though its god was likewise a low-ranking god, as a member of the god faction, its true body enjoyed the favor of the faction's laws. Its status naturally could not be mentioned in the same breath as that of an ordinary evil god empire. Its principal race was humanity.
Here, it was necessary to explain what humanity meant.
The humans here and the humans of the Wizard World, though broadly similar in