Roughly 10.000 years ago, at the onset of the last Golden Age and triggered by the sudden overwhelming return of the energies, the ongoing violent conflict between the last two remaining Anu escalated.
Before, the God and the Goddess were content to attack each other’s armies and cities with their own human armies, or sometimes with the non-human creatures the Anu had created. At this point, however, they stopped adhering to the rules of the ugly game they had been playing.
Millions of people were wiped out, generation after generation. In their hatred for each other and their paranoia, everyone was the enemy, and no place was safe.