God's Suicide

God's suicide was the act that set in motion the events of Begotten. God's motives for committing suicide are not known, and if they ever were known then any record of them has been forever lost. From what few fragments of documentation of His suicide remain, it is known that God eviscerated Himself with the force of a million razorblades, His sacred blood spilling and fountaining from the orifices in His body until it ran empty. Some say that the suicide of God took seconds, while others say that it took millennia. Whatever the case, when His will was done, the deformed figure of God lay slumped in an upright position, His bodily fluids and entrails billowing from His contorted stomach.

What followed immediately after God's suicide is more well known, as the mysterious entity known as the Undergod invaded the Heavens, the mortal plane, and Hell. Heaven fell first, angels and reclaimed souls gored and fed upon by the Undergod's legions. The mortal plane, Gaia, fell next, with not even the venerable Lord Maximus able to resist the hordes of Begotten. Mass suicides and sacrifices precipitated the Undergod's arrival at each human settlement, and no quarter was given to those few who remained. Lastly, the Undergod set his sights on the domain of Lucifer, usurping the lord of the Hell's throne and enslaving his army of demons.

While God's suicide is nonexistent any living memory, its effects and remnants are still seen in the present. Every so often a fragment of the tremendous amount of energy released by the Lord's suicide is discharged, resulting in immense flashes of light, the sound of screaming, and even hallucinations of God's suicide for those who are unlucky enough to still wander this Earth. It is also not uncommon for electronics to transmit the remnants of God's suicide, even if unpowered.