The Ruining

The events of the Ruining were jnitiated when the races of the Hierarchy of Forruin allied under the leadership of the human, Baron Zanf.

The alliance managed to open a rift in the universe in order to banish their oppressors, the Nine Kings, trapping them in the Nameless Void beyond the rift; the world of Forruin was irrevocably warped, however, with the magic that had once been inherent to the world now leaking into the Void and dissipating. The fabric of the physical world was also pulled apart; ecosystems fail, natural disasters are manifest, and in many places the laws of physics no longer apply at all.

Furthermore, lthough the Elder Races' combined might ultimately beat the Kings into exile, the departing Nine managed to retaliate against Zanf and his people with a corrupting hex. Because of this, all who were once human are now doomed to live as hexborn.