Hell had descended upon Godgrave.
A storm of rustling swords blotted out the sky, unleashing a devastating rain of slaying steel upon the sea of living corpses that flooded the blood-soaked reaches of the shattered bone plain. Grotesque figures of towering Titans were straining to break the chains of sorcery that bound them, the ground quaked like a wounded beast convulsing in the throes of death, and a violent litany of deafening noises seemed to shake the very foundation of the world.
Two demigods continued their mortal battle high above the fractured battlefield, observed in silence by the distant, evil omen of the dead god's skull.