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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 8840386" data-attributes="member: 20741">To move by this, I think the cause of the Cataclysm can be retconned and reworked so it is somewhat more palatable without too much work.Posit instead that the King-Priest, who the novels explicitly depict as a racist, actively sought to destroy the Minotaurs -- the tribe closest to Sargonnas. And of course, the Minotaurs were decidedly not human. The King-Priest sought to destroy them by altering the path of a nearby meteor -- so as to drop this fiery mountain upon their heads.The idea came to him in a dream. The source of that dream? The Queen of Evil, of course.As he sets his plan in motion, the King-Priest is repeatedly warned to desist by those close to him and the Gods of Good. As he persists, the King-Priest's miraculous powers are revoked by the Gods of Good. Yet his miraculous power remained. After his power was revoked by Paladine, it was Takhisis herself who continued to provide him his magical powers, pouring poison in his ear throughout via his dreams.The meteor that was headed for Krynn was much larger than the one that ultimately impacted. To split it up and prevent it from being a planet killer took all the power of the Good Gods to deflect -- but they were unable to wholly divert it and save everyone. Part of the meteor got through (cue the scene from Deep Impact).Striving with Takhisis and the other Evil Gods in the heavens above, the Good Gods were unable to do much on the Earth below -- but they did direct Loren Soth with the task of stopping the King-Priest, which should have diverted that part of the meteor they could not deflect. But using Lord Soth was foreseen and countered by Takhisis as well  - and so Soth broke faith and fell. So did the part of the mountain the Gods of Good could not deflect.  The Good Gods tried to save as many as they could and the many races and much of Ansalon was saved -- but they were unable to wholly prevent the destruction. The meteor was mostly deflected -- the part that was not struck Istar itself (it's a little to the West of the land of the Minotaurs).In the wake of this disaster, clearly feeling abandoned, the common people blamed the Old Gods for the devastation; again, Takhisis' whispering and blaming Paladine and Mishakal went a long way here -- though not much was required to cause the Old Gods to be blamed given the devastation wrought by the Cataclysm. And so it was that the people turned away from the gods they blamed for such wanton destruction. Who could blame them?Is this a blatant retcon of established canon in the novels? 1000%. It surely is. But is it more palatable for many (most?) adult players? That's up to you and your table.  But that's how I have re-imagined the Cataclysm on my Krynn.  Your mileage may vary.</blockquote>

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