Editing Ao (section)

==History==
Ao existed before Abeir-Toril and was the one who created the crystal sphere containing the world in it. After creating the sphere he simply left it as a timeless, gray void, from which [[Selûne]] and [[Shar]] emerged.

Early in Abeir-Toril's history, the "Gods" fought the "Primordials" in a war over who gets dominion over the mortal realms, called the ''Days of Thunder''. Ao himself apparently didn't pick a side, indicating that he is neither God nor Primordial himself. In any case, '''[[Io]]''', ''(who was called '''Asgorath''')'' was summoned to fight against the giant deity [[Annam]] and proceeded to throw a meteor at the planet, very nearly destroying it. Feeling that the game had finally gone too far, Ao finally interceded as a referee, and decided to split the planet Abeir-Toril into two parts and spread them evenly between groups; the Primordials got Abeir, while the Gods got Toril and became the center stage for the Forgotten Realms from that point onwards.

THE most significant event of that was the [[Time of Troubles]], when he expelled all of the gods bar [[Helm]] from the heavens over [[Bane]] and [[Myrkul]] stealing the Tablets of Fate. This was ultimately revealed to actually be an excuse and really he was just sick of how the gods were so indifferent to their followers' plights. When he did end the Time and let them back in, it was only after changing things so that their power levels now depended on the faith of mortals; if a god lost all of its followers, it would fade away into nothing, whilst the more followers that god had, the mightier it would grow. This did make the gods more attentive of their followers, but it also led to much more aggressive proselytizing, too.