Shake the Pillars of Heaven

There is a war brewing, and its first acts are already being waged in the shadows. It's opening moves are already underway, carried out by ruthless souls and cunning tricksters, and it's ultimate prize is humanity itself, and maybe the very thrones of the Eternals.

This war is not one of armies moving, nor is it likely to culminate in the sort of warfare that mankind is accustomed too, it is being fought through mortals by the Old Gods, against the New Gods.

The Old Gods

Most people have heard of the old gods, for they bear names known of Old, and made (in)famous by anthropologists, by the History channel, and by the reborn neopagan community. They bear names like Thor and Loki, Umai and Lleu, Isis and Anubis, Inari and Raiden, Thunderbird and Uktena. They are the gods of our ancestors, the gods of our savage past, the beings our grandfathers' grandfathers' grandfathers' once worshipped.

The Old Gods were believed driven away, slain, or forced into divine slumber by the drive of new faiths and new beliefs, by the rise of the West's One God by whatever names they called him: YHVH, Allah, God the Father. In the East, things were different and their gods have changed, adapting and absorbing the shifting tides of faith that fused the Buddha Siddartha with Shinto.

The last 60 years have seen new faiths awaken, and belief in the Old God's has resurged in the West. Driven by atavistic movements, the greater search for spirituality instead of religion, old faiths walk the world reborn in the image of the Neo-Pagan movement.

The New Gods

The last 60 years have also seen the emerging power of science give birth to new phenomenon, new forces which shape our society, our world in ways that few people truly grasp, as they take for granted what they grew up with.

While the Old Gods are beings born of religions and mythologies, the New Gods were formed through modern forms of belief and worship, alternative religions so to speak, practiced often in an unconscious way. One of the common traits of the New Gods is their pride and their arrogance, their feeling of superiority towards the Old Gods inspired by the fact that they are the current "ruling power" of America. They disdain everything deemed old, outdated or forgotten, and are obsessed with modernity, trends and upgrades. Yet the New Gods are also weaker than the the Old Gods in the sense that they "fade" much faster than the ancient deities and have shorter lifespans: they lose power as soon as humanity becomes less interested in their concepts, or as soon as what they represent becomes "obsolete" and is replaced by a new trend, a new fashion of a technology more efficient.