The Kenosis

The Great Ordering of Altheris. After the wild abandon and the seemingly endless cycles of creation and destruction enacted by the gods and powers of Altheris, Balfix realized that his fellow gods' way of directly influencing the world was unstable and threatened the planet's very foundations. With difficulty, he rallied the other more chaotic or aloof Primordial Titans together to consider how best to handle the issues of the gods' direct influence, as well as the wanton destruction of the immortal Children of Fury.

Mortality
Uladra, who had yet to contribute to the Children, introduced a new idea: instead of making another race, she would instead grant all of the existing Children with mortality - the ability to die through age, instead of slaughter. This sentiment was at first strongly rejected by most every other god, who each detested the idea of confining their own creations to what was seen as an imperfection. It was only when Onadra ultimately voiced agreement with her twin that the other gods came around as well: mortality to the Children of Fury would make it so each individual life, by its finite span, would be better appreciated. The wild, violent abandon that they currently lived would be abandoned, Onadra reasoned, as they would need to devote their energies to survival instead of wanton war.

The Leyline Chasis
Balfix's solution, juxtaposed to Uladra's proposal of mortality for the Children of Fury, was to have all gods and divine powers distance themselves from Altheris. With the races of the world made mortal and their lives diminished in length, they would be more easily able to be influenced by the deities that had so far directly shaped the planet. After much heated debate, the Primordial Titans and many of the gods agreed with Balfix's reasoning; some did not. Refusing to give up their direct links to the world and the powers it offered them in kind, some gods fought back against their kin instead, in a mad bid for dominance of Altheris. The powers that sided with Balfix rallied together in the face of this betrayal, and beat down the now Traitor Gods, punching them through the world into Pandemonium, the Abyssal Plane.

The Primordial Titans then each created pocket worlds of their own, threading them along the Weave so as to be a world removed, yet bound to Altheris - a last link to the primary world of the Titans' combined creation. With the divines removed from Altheris, the final act left to perform the Kenosis itself - the deprivation of supersaturated mana from each individual living thing on Altheris. The mana was instead realigned by Manara into a planetwide circulatory system that courses around and through the world, acting as both a recycling system for used mana and a chasis to protect the physical plane from most of the influence of the other planes...and their respective divine powers. This great intraplanetary network of energy, called the Leyline Chasis, serves as the source of mana for the planet to this day. With their work done and their Children brought low to mortality, the gods took their direct leave of Altheris, most content to watch and influence from afar.