The Solar Demise

Following the events of the cosmic invasion the sun exploded, plunging the world into darkness. Many fragments of the sun fell down onto the material plane and these fiery fragments began to manifest in the ground of certain areas (the Bone Desert, Titan Valley, Mad Nexus, and the Howling lands). As the eternal night beings, the creatures of the night reign. Vampire and werewolf populations explode in number, and citizens of the underdark surface into the now safe darkness of the above world. Most of the forests died either due to the lack of the sun or was the initial impact of the the sun exploding and the fiery fragments scorched the forests. The forests are replaced with dark, twisted growths from the underdark and became corrupted by the far realm. Enclaves of holy light become hidden settlements for the races of Dephiron and other creatures of the light, forever under the assault of the oppressing's darkness.