The Roaming Rage

Quickly after The Righteous Force was defeated and the remnants fled back to Mal Oran, Naj's anger erupted in response to their failure. Tendrils of dark, corrupting magic stretched across the land, saturating Mal Oran with the power of the Void. Naj's power blighted much of the land and altered its people into demonic hybrids, creating the Tiefling race.

These first tieflings, corrupted by Naj's magic and fueled only by an inherent and insatiable rage, they strike out beyond Mal Oran. Too small in numbers to trigger the Chain as effectively as the Swell, they begin to roam the Baronies and beyond, wreaking destruction with unhinged dark magic and necromancy bestowed to them by the Void.

The Roamers devastated most of the Baronies, whose fighting forces were already diminished pushing back the Swell. Half the already small population is lost to a power beyond mortal means to stop it. The elves, dwarves and dragons were not excluded from taking heavy losses despite exhausting a vast amount of ancient magic and natural might.