Tower of Salt and Sandstone

More than two millennia ago Basenbe had visions of a future in which the gods once more waged war across the mortal plane causing great devastation and destruction, greater even than they had caused in the past: he predicted a Third War of Fate. He traveled to the mountain home of Daeder and spoke to him of the future. For six days, Basenbe recited the visions he had seen and Daeder listened. After Basenbe finished, Daeder spoke not a word but picked up his hammer and journeyed to the valley of the mortals. With special powers given to him by Basenbe and by the magic of his Hammer, Daeder constructed the ‘’’Tower of Salt and Sandstone’’. The tower blocked the way between heaven and earth, for it rendered it impossible for any god to travel between those planes without the loss of divine power.

Daeder was bound to the mortal plane by this act, but he did not mind. The other gods also were forced to remain wherever they were when the tower was constructed. The gods could still speak with their mortal followers; it might also have been theoretically possible for a mortal avatar to house the soul of a god and thus circumvent the tower, but no mortal was likely to survive being possessed by a god for long.

It is said that Basenbe habitually wrote his visions down on scrolls because, owing to their magical nature, he was inclined to forget them. The visions that predicted the Third War of Fate were scribed on five enchanted scrolls which were later stolen by Hester, though it is not known to what end she acted thus or what became of the five Scrolls of Fate.

Once Phykrell was free it seems that the Third War of Fate was inevitable in spite of the measures taken to prevent this.