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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tinkerer" data-source="post: 5289299" data-attributes="member: 60805">Powerful casters in order to defeat a massive invasion of Illithid and Aboleths from the Far Realm use ancient forbidden divine magic that gets out of control.  This causes the gods to sever ties with the people.Aboleths are defeated by tainting and destroying the waters in which they live.  But as a spell out of control or a curse from the dying aboleths the waters are depleted well beyond intended.Gith have not yet gained their freedom from the Illithids and thus are one of many slave races of the Mindflayers when the invasion began.Trying to fight psionics with arcane magic results in "upgrading" arcane to tap directly into life force of plants (and animals) but permanently alters arcane mastery such that one cannot use it anymore without life force.The heavy use of primal magic thins the barriers between the elemental chaos and the world.  Being so close to the elemental chaos, the massive destruction of life, and the gods abandoning the world result in the shadowfell and feywild being ripped apart.</blockquote>