War broke out across several planes, and turmoil swept through several kingdoms. For a moment, the gods seemed to glimpse the disasters that had accompanied the turn of past eras.
Some gods moved their Divine Kingdoms into the boundless darkness of the void. They used Divine Power to disrupt prophecies, divinations, and tracking spells that might locate them, intending to reappear in the world only after the new era arrived.
Meanwhile, the Chromatic Dragon Queen stopped trying to outlast the God of Agriculture in a contest of Divine Power.
She had assumed that a New God, however high his Divine Rank, could not have accumulated much Divine Power. But this New God had far more than she had expected.
The Chromatic Dragon Queen spread her wings and summoned her kingdom down. Caverns immediately swallowed Khalikan's magnificent buildings.
Then Portals opened to planes and regions far and wide, and tens of thousands of Dragons appeared in Khalikan.
Dragons stood at the pinnacle of the Multiverse. To them, gods were merely somewhat stronger beings, hardly figures worthy of devout Faith.
Most of the Chromatic Dragon Queen's Believers were evil dragons like the chromatic dragons. Such creatures would never devoutly worship a god who might covet their treasure, much less entrust their souls to the Dragon Queen.
To Dragons, death was a distant prospect. If they wished, they could transform themselves into more unusual kinds of Dragons and gain Immortality.
Dragon Liches, for instance. Or Undead Dragons.
But the absence of Dragon Petitioners did not mean no Dragons served the Chromatic Dragon Queen. Quite the opposite. As the mother of all evil dragons and the Creator of chromatic Dragons, Tiamat commanded the service of nearly every chromatic dragon. Even the metallic dragons, who were at odds with them, held the Dragon Queen in