The Twelve Gods have not spoken directly to mortals since the Divine Concord—or so the world believes. The truth is more complicated. The gods broke the Concord during the Divine War, re-emerged to fight Erruuth, and then retreated behind the Divine Veil again after the war’s end—exhausted, weakened, and in need of recovery that has lasted a millennium. Their current silence is not the silence of divine restraint. It is the silence of exhaustion.

The gods still communicate through dreams, omens, miracles, and chosen champions—the channels that the Divine Veil permits. But the quality and frequency of these communications have diminished over the centuries. Clerics still receive divine power. Paladins still feel their oaths. But the connection is thinner than it was, and the most sensitive divine practitioners have noticed—though they attribute the change to their own spiritual shortcomings rather than to the gods’ weakness.

The critical question—one that no character in Voxana is positioned to ask, because no one remembers the Divine War—is whether the gods are recovering or whether they are still weakening. A thousand years of silence is long even by divine standards. The Veil itself may be degrading alongside the Loom, and the gods may be as trapped behind it as Erruuth is trapped in his prison. This possibility is terrifying, and it is one that individual DMs should decide for their own campaigns.