The final conflict began as the Ascension War, a cataclysmic struggle between the Ascendant Order, the Arcane Circle, the Mage-Lords, and the Imperial Dominion. Each faction sought to claim the relics of the Forge, believing that whoever held them would control the future of Novus Mundus.
Milton, watching from above, saw the devastation this war brought to his creation. Cities were razed, entire regions turned to ash by the power of the Forge's relics, and countless lives were lost. The world was on the brink of annihilation, and Milton knew that the time for intervention had come.