Lorebane wrote:
One of the gods of the Elorri goes missing, and the other is blamed (it didn't seem like she had been harmed at all when she was eventually found), and then they couldn't beat him in their war of aggression, so they ate the gods of their new allies and then told the people who had been helping them in this war to gtfo, because they were going to give their capitol city to their own followers.
Replace Elorii with Pantheon of Man (it was a human goddess). To piece this story together properly will take a while, as there are several different versions spread across several books... and one important paragraph hidden in the Blessed Lands book.
The short summary of the war in heaven is:
1. The "Other" preached to the Pantheon of Man.
2. The 'gentlest goddess' listened and was eaten/absorbed/went missing.
3. Illiir was convinced that the Pantheon wasn't strong enough to defeat the Other and another god convinced him to have the Elemental Lords absorbed. Speculation is that this was Belisarda in disguise pursuing her own agenda (note that the Elemental Lords were not 'deities' as such).
4. After a period of time, a female goddess arrives and convinces Illiir that he is their long-lost sister (which was supposedly forgotten) and has been revealed as Yig in disguise...
5. A more recent speculation is that Belisarda is also Yig in disguise... (liable to get you burned as a heretic by the Elorii).
6. There have been some book and in-game adventure references that Onara may be stuck in a time loop, as the Pantheon with human followers arrived through a Portal in the distant past and the Pantheon with human follows leave through a Portal in the distant future. Yig's holy symbol is the endless serpent swallowing itself...
Note also that there are some direct contradictions, depending upon the source of information used (and this is deliberate from Henry).