The Redemption¶
"Scholars call this the Mithis Fracture. Divine Priests call it Perdition." — Post-Sancturi Lore (S112)
The Redemption was the act of the god called the Divine that "destroyed all Hollows and removed Mithis from the world" (S112). The Mithis Plane, which Asmodeus had held since the Hollowing, "has been fully extracted from the material, making it its own physical place known in common parlance simply as the Rift." It marks the opening of the Divine Period of the Fifth Age, and the end of Arcane magic as the world had known it.
The act¶
Who the Divine is, and how he came to the power to do this, is Religion's subject: the newest lore says only that "no one is sure how," though heretical scholars surmise that the Divine "was able to take over most of Kalar's old shards which held back doors into many of the other shards," displacing Arcantus and killing Arya in the process (S112). His star, the Divine Star Sharuvas, "a very bright blue star in the sky," is the remade City of the Gods. The Fifth Age Timeline dates the "Ascendance of the Divine" to the year 906, two years after the Fall of Sanctorum, and opens the Divine Period there (S016).
The Redemption followed. Every Hollow was destroyed. Mithis was removed from the world as a source of magic and energy: "Mithis metals and objects can still exist, but must be transplanted from (and energized on) the Mithis Plane." The Mithis Plane became the Rift, "an often unstable and shifting place," which "is still a bridge between Material and Abyss (but much more distant)" and where Asmodeus "still has a lot of control" (S112). The cosmology revision describes the same place from the other side, as the decayed Mithis Astral Shard merged with the Shadow Realm and holed through to the Material (S001).
Consequences¶
"Mages, Wizards and Hollowlocks have lost their power source." The Archdemons, especially Asmodeus, are "re-imprisoned in the Abyss" and declining. "Warlocks that make deals with demons for magic are much more common now" (S112).
The world has grown hotter: "The planet has warmed substantially since the Redemption, changing the climate rapidly over the past 200 years. This has altered coastlines and biomes across the planet." And it has grown stranger: "Since the Redemption, Monsters and Aberrations are more common. They seem to simply spawn around Rift anomalies." The Divine Authority encourages commoners "to blame Warlocks/Witches, Infidels and their own unworthiness (roughly in that order)"; dissected, the creatures "are determined to have come from the Rift, as they contain Mithis." In truth "the Rift leaks Corrupted Mithis in small bursts which is attracted to weakened souls due to demonic influences" (S112). The Riftborn, made by warlocks "to help deal with Aberrations," are now "outlawed and hunted by agents of the Divine," and rune magic, the relic of "old forgotten (and powerless) gods," is forbidden.
Gap
A single document describes the Redemption. It gives no year for the act itself, no account of how the Hollows died or what happened to the people inside them, and no word on how the Divine's own followers experienced it.