Chapter Summaries

Bane’s Black Fortress in Acheron mobilized its Believers and Devils for conquest while news of the Ruling Church’s devastating Faith War reached the Divine Realm. Bane remained on his Skull Throne, troubled by the God of Dominion’s attack and still holding back as his Church faltered.

• The chapter described Acheron’s four layers, the creatures and deities living there, and the location of Bane’s hidden Black Fortress Divine Realm.
• Bane’s Believers and Devils trained throughout the Black Fortress, preparing to march at his command.
• Souls arriving from the Astral Realm brought news of the Ruling Church’s Faith War and the purge of the opposing Church.
• Bane’s Believers worried that the Church on the Prime Material Plane would be wiped out before he acted.
• Bane sat on the Skull Throne, concealing his concern as he considered how to face the God of Dominion’s attack.

Bane watched his Church lose ground in the War of Faith and, after enduring for two and a half years, revealed his Divine Realm and unleashed Tyranny and Fear across the Outer Planes. The gods turned their attention to the impending conflict, while Cyric remained consumed by hatred for Bane.

• Bane blamed his Church's devastating losses on the Ruling Church, the Lava Clan, and Cyric's unexpected support for his enemies.
• Two and a half years into the War of Faith, the gods saw Bane's Church continuing to lose planes to the Church of the God of Dominion.
• Bane's Black Fortress Divine Realm appeared among the Black Cubes in Avalas and spread the Authorities of Tyranny and Fear across the Outer Planes.
• The Authorities forced living creatures in Avalas to the ground, except for those protected by deities.
• In Pandemonium, Cyric's madness deepened alongside his rage and resentment toward Bane, who had taken his Authority.

Cyric ordered his Church to hunt the Bane Church while the deities watched Bane expose his Divine Realm. Green refused to take the bait, and one year later a mighty force descended upon the Origin Force Sea.

• Cyric ordered the Church of Cyric to hunt and kill members of the Bane Church for divine favor.
• Lathander decided that a divine war was unavoidable and vanished to prevent large-scale upheaval.
• Green judged Bane's exposed Divine Realm to be a trap, reassured Sevyla, and returned to sleep as his Avatar's transformation neared completion.
• Bane's provocation and Green's silence led the deities to suspect Bane was plotting and to respect Green's patience.
• Bane decided he would have to trigger Authority Resonance, but first gathered strength and prepared himself.
• One year later, a mighty force descended upon the Origin Force Sea and the suspended God Thrones began to tremble.

Green, the newly born God of Dominion, and Bane clashed over a newly formed Authority in the Origin Force Sea, matching each other in power. Their confrontation left the gods expecting a war that could bring down Bane, while his followers faced the gathering forces around his Divine Realm.

• Bane’s and Green’s Divine Thrones descended to the Origin Force Sea, where their Authority Essences merged into a new Authority contested by both gods.
• Green and Bane appeared on their thrones and silently matched auras, suppressing the waves of the Origin Force Sea.
• Tempus warned the watching gods that Green’s power was greater than it appeared, prompting them to reconsider the newcomer’s strength.
• Green and Bane vanished after neither could overpower the other, and their clash prompted the gods to prepare for a possible war.
• Devils, Demon Lords, and other powerful beings gathered near Bane’s Divine Realm, while his Believers condemned them for coveting their Primary Deity’s spoils.

The Ruling Church launched an assault on the Bane Church’s forces on the Mulmaster Plane as the war between the Deities began. Green chose to confront Bane himself rather than sacrifice his Believers, then roared that he would claim Bane’s Authority.

• Leindorf proclaimed Green’s oracle and led the Ruling Church’s Legion through a Plane Passage to attack the Bane Church on the Mulmaster Plane.
• The Ruling Church’s Mental Shock and Dominion Field battered the Bane Church’s forces before Leindorf transformed into a Demigod Red Dragon and the two armies clashed.
• Green checked his attributes, judged himself strong enough to defeat Bane, and left his Divine Realm without sending his Believers into battle.
• Green’s Believers began praying to support him after he departed, while beings across the Divine World watched Arcadia and Avalas.
• Green roared across the planes that Bane’s Authority would be his, inspiring faint faith among dragons and Dragonkin and drawing the attention of Bahamut and Tiamat.

Green invaded Avalas and fought Bane by attacking the Black Fortress Divine Realm directly. He seized control of it and began tearing it apart while Deities across the planes watched.

• Tiamat admired Green’s powerful Red Dragon bloodline and planned to meet him, while Bahamut prepared to support him if needed.
• Green broke through Arcadia’s boundary and entered the Acheron Plane, drawing the attention of countless Deities.
• Green challenged Bane in Avalas, and Bane sent his Black Fortress Divine Realm crashing into him.
• Green used his dragon claws and Authorities of Lava and Black Smoke to damage the Divine Realm and embed his claw in its surface.
• Green took control of Bane’s Divine Realm, then bit off a corner as Bane called him a monster.
• Green repeatedly battered and tore apart the helpless Divine Realm as the watching Deities reacted with alarm.

Green and Bane fought in Avalas as Green destroyed Bane's Divine Realm, forcing Bane to emerge and face him. After Green healed his wounds with Divine Power, he attacked Bane and discovered that the Black Iron Gauntlet absorbed and redirected his power while strengthening Bane's resistance to Rulership Authority.

• Legendary Lifeforms braved the battle's shockwaves to collect fragments of Bane's Black Fortress Divine Realm, hoping to cultivate Hatred or Fear Divinity.
• Green damaged Bane's Divine Realm, and Bane emerged to attack him, but Green dodged the strike.
• Tyr, God of Justice, and Mystra, the Magic Web Goddess, judged that Green held the advantage, while some deities and demons vanished from the Origin Force Sea.
• Green healed his injuries with Divine Power, and Bane held back rather than attack.
• Green charged Bane, and their clash revealed that Bane's Black Iron Gauntlet absorbed Green's power and strengthened Bane's Authority against Rulership Authority.

Green used the Chip’s scan to assess Bane and confirmed he had the advantage in physical clashes despite Bane’s Black Iron Gauntlet. He dispelled Bane’s fear mist with the Radiant Legion’s hope and resumed his assault, leaving Avalas close to ruin as other deities watched.

• Green ordered the Chip to scan Bane, revealing Bane’s Divine Offices, Godhead abilities, and Black Iron Gauntlet.
• Green concluded that Bane’s low ordinary level limited his strength and that repeated physical clashes could injure him.
• Bane engulfed Avalas in Infinite Fear Mist, but Green scattered it with the light of hope from the Radiant Legion.
• Green attacked Bane with repeated claw strikes, and their clashes cracked the black cube above Avalas and drove powerful beings to flee.
• Deities watching the battle realized they might fare even worse against Green and began considering how to address their weakness.

Green, God of Dominion, battled Bane, God of Tyranny, until Bane used Abyssal Origin Force and Death’s Claw to apparently tear Green apart. Bane celebrated and devoured Green’s remains, but Green appeared behind him unharmed, leaving Bane stunned and questioning whether the victory had been an illusion.

• Green and Bane fought in Avalas, and Green’s greater endurance forced Bane to spend more Faith Force healing his injuries.
• After a month of battle, Bane restored himself and released a scroll that enveloped Green in Abyssal Origin Force, weakening him and disrupting his healing.
• Bane transformed into a Demon and struck Green’s chest with Death’s Claw, then tore Green’s body apart before the watching gods.
• Bane devoured Green’s remains and proclaimed himself the victor, while the gods feared the power he had gained.
• Green appeared behind Bane completely unharmed, and the scattered remains vanished, leaving Bane shocked and uncertain whether he had experienced an illusion.

Green revealed that he had used a Twelfth-Ring Spell to undo Bane’s apparent victory, then cast his newly invented Soul Dominion spell against him. The gods watched in alarm as the spell’s pale blue light entered Bane’s body.

• Green told Bane that he had anticipated his fallback plan, leaving Bane wary and confused about what had happened.
• Mystra identified the magic that had restored Green as a Twelfth-Ring Spell and said Green had invented and cast it alone.
• The gods reacted with alarm at Green’s power and reconsidered their past efforts to obstruct his ascension.
• Green cast Soul Dominion, drawing the Mana from Avalas as Bane recognized the spell and panicked.
• Green sent a thread of pale blue light at Bane, and it passed through Bane’s claw and entered his body.

Green defeated Bane by exploiting a flaw in his Godhead and absorbed Bane’s Authority of Tyranny. As Bane’s followers scattered or died, Green’s Godhead rose to the peak of Intermediate Divine Power and began advancing toward Greater Divine Power.

• Green used Soul Dominion to immobilize Bane and began absorbing his Authority, while Bane apologized to his believers before dying.
• Bane’s throne and Authority Essence merged into Green’s throne as the watching Deities fell silent.
• After Bane’s fall, some Bane Church leaders killed themselves, while others escaped with the Church’s possessions to preserve their faith and await his return.
• Green absorbed Bane’s Authority and received Origin Force from the world, strengthening his Godhead.
• Tyr considered recruiting Green, whose Godhead reached the peak of Intermediate Divine Power and continued rising toward Greater Divine Power.

Green absorbed the World Force and became a Greater Divine Power, then defeated Bane and claimed his Divine Realm. After the deaths of Bane and his Believers yielded unexpected Mental Will Force, Green returned to Arcadia to consider what he had discovered.

• Green's Divinity transformed to level 21 as he absorbed the World Force, and he became the embodiment of Rulership Authority.
• Green relinquished the Fear and Hatred authorities to the Origin Force Sea rather than absorb them.
• Green annihilated Bane's Believers and Devils in the Black Fortress Divine Realm, and the Chip extracted Mental Will Force from their deaths.
• Green claimed Bane's Divine Realm and flew back to Arcadia, where he rested on his throne a day later.

Green analyzed how pure faith released Mental Will Force at death and decided the method was impractical compared with steady collection. After learning Omniscience would take about thirty Eras to complete, he chose to focus his will on the Divine World and arrange for a Puppet to maintain his Blood-Red World Formation.

• Green's Chip concluded that lives dying with exceptionally pure convictions released Faith Force mixed with Mental Will Force, but Green judged the yield too unreliable for deliberate use.
• Green asked the Chip to estimate Omniscience's completion time, and it predicted about 3,000 Divine World years, or thirty Eras in the Origin River.
• Green decided to devote his will to the fast-flowing Divine World and put his Blood-Red World clone to sleep.
• Green planned to build a Puppet to maintain the Emotional Force Purification Amplification Formation and alert him if it could not handle repairs.
• Green began transferring his will.

Green confirmed that no one had investigated the Blood-Red World, arranged for a robot to maintain its Formation, and continued preparing for his mission. Meanwhile, the Ruling Church spread throughout the Divine World, and Green began meeting the Deities who sought him out, starting with Mystra.

• Green scanned the Blood-Red World and found that the Civilization Alliance had sent no investigators.
• Unit 005 finished inspecting the Emotional Force Purification Amplification Formation, and Green ordered it to notify him when damage reached 3%.
• Green returned to the Formation to transfer his will into his Divine World body and use its unusual flow of time.
• Over three years, the Ruling Church spread across the Divine World and stabilized Green's strength, while Mystra, Alzuth, Bahamut, and Tiamat repeatedly requested meetings.
• Green agreed to meet the Deities and received Mystra at his throne, where they exchanged greetings.

Green revealed that he had mastered about a dozen Twelfth-Ring Spells, astonishing Mystra. They traded his spell knowledge for access to all the knowledge stored in the Magic Web, and Green planned to upload the spells directly.

• Mystra asked Green about the effects of True Falsehood and Soul Dominion, and he explained what each spell could do.
• Green told Mystra that he had mastered about a dozen Twelfth-Ring Spells, leaving her stunned.
• Mystra offered all the spell knowledge recorded in the Magic Web in exchange for Green's Twelfth-Ring Spells, and he accepted.
• Mystra gave Green a thread that connected him to the Magic Web, and he said he would upload the spell knowledge there.
• Mystra left after they discussed matters concerning the deities, and Green departed to fulfill the deal.

Green accessed the Magic Web to study the Divine World's highest-level spells, including five incomplete Thirteenth-Ring Spells tied to Great Divine Power. As he began fulfilling his agreement with Mystra, his spell model appeared before the gathered Mages, who watched in disbelief.

• Green reviewed and recorded selected Tenth-, Eleventh-, and Twelfth-Ring Spells from the Magic Web.
• Green discovered five theoretical Thirteenth-Ring Spells: World Collapse, World Creation, Causality's End, Concept Erasure, and Timeline Reset.
• Green began studying the Thirteenth-Ring Spell models and rapidly constructed a Twelfth-Ring Spell model in the Magic Web to fulfill his agreement with Mystra.
• Azuth and Mystra's Chosen gathered before the central Mage Tower, where Green's spell model appeared on a screen.
• The Mages of the Divine World stared at Green's model in disbelief.

Mages studied the Twelfth-Ring Spell models Green shared, while Azuth and Mystra discussed his access to knowledge about Thirteenth-Ring Spells. Green began completing the Thirteenth-Ring Spell models, and the Gods took notice of his absence and the Ruling Church’s rapid expansion.

• Mages across the Heart of the Demon Realm praised Green’s spell models and hurried to record the insights they gained from them.
• Azuth worried that Mystra had given Green access to knowledge about unfinished Thirteenth-Ring Spells, but Mystra argued that his talent made the access worthwhile.
• Green completed the final Twelfth-Ring Spell model, then instructed the Chip to begin completing the Thirteenth-Ring Spells and joined in the work.
• The Gods wondered why Green had not appeared or performed miracles since his God Ascension, while the Ruling Church continued gaining Believers through its governance and resource control.
• The Ruling Church’s success made other Gods consider adopting its unusual approach to spreading faith.

After ten years of developing the Divine World’s Thirteenth-Ring Spells, Green agreed to show a miracle at a grand ceremony to calm his unsettled Church. He also summoned Leindorf and Yugulos with their scriptures, suggesting he planned to elevate them to Subordinate Deities.

• Over time, churches across the Prime Material Plane gained believers after adopting lessons from the Ruling Church, and Waukeen advanced in divine rank as commerce flourished.
• Green completed five revised Thirteenth-Ring Spells that could threaten even Great Divine Powers and make the World Will pay dearly to suppress them.
• Sevyla warned Green that his Church was in turmoil because he had issued no Divine Oracle or shown a miracle for over ten years.
• Green told Sevyla to have Leindorf and the others prepare a grand ceremony where he would show a miracle.
• Green then asked Sevyla to bring Leindorf and Yugulos to the Divine Realm with their scriptures, prompting Sevyla to suspect he would raise them to Subordinate Deities.

After ten years without a Divine Oracle, Yugulos received Green’s command to prepare a festival and bring scriptures to the Divine Realm. Green reviewed Yugulos’s scripture and judged that he could ascend as a deity with Weak Divine Power, leaving Leindorf next to present his own Divinity.

• Yugulos prayed in the Temple and worried that Green might remain absorbed in magical research for centuries.
• Sevyla announced Green’s Divine Oracle: a festival would be held in one month, and Yugulos and Leindorf were summoned to the Divine Realm with their scriptures.
• Yugulos summoned Leindorf, and the two retrieved their scriptures before following Sevyla into the Divine Realm.
• Green asked Yugulos and Leindorf to present their scriptures and describe the Divinity they had nurtured.
• Yugulos explained that his Divinity came from church governance, administration, and compiling Green’s ideas into a book.
• Green approved Yugulos’s scripture and said he could ascend directly to Weak Divine Power, with the possibility of eventually reaching Intermediate Divine Power.

Green helped Leindorf prepare to ascend to godhood and sheltered him and Yugulos while they cultivated their Divinities. A month later, the Ruling Church’s celebration in Miracle City culminated in a divine miracle that rejuvenated and healed Green’s Believers.

• Leindorf told Green that he wanted to ascend through his Flame of the Burning Battlefield Divinity, and Green sent him insights into flame and heat from his Lava Divinity.
• Green invited Leindorf and Yugulos to spend a month in his Divine Realm, shielding them from interference as they comprehended their Divinities.
• The Ruling Church held a grand celebration in Miracle City, drawing Green’s Believers, bards, followers of other deities, and merchants.
• During the ceremony’s prayers, golden clouds and light appeared above the city, making the Ruling Church’s Believers younger and curing even their terminal illnesses.