Editing Quest:The Long Night:Sparks at Midnight (section)

===A minor detour: The Triumvirate===

The Triumvirate. It started its existence centuries ago, as the Aetheric Concordat. As you might remember, while Ridcully and the others were scouting out Nurgle's mansion, the Eldar were providing all kinds of distractions. Among them, an alliance of gods working together against him. To everyone's surprise, the guys found they liked working with each other, and the alliance stayed ever since. At first, there were many gods of all kinds there, like a Magos who accidentally created an AI, with both becoming gods during their attempts to evade the Imperium, or a cook god who was so badly damaged by a Slaaneshi Exalted he only retained the skill to make sandwiches.

During the Grand Ritual, the Concordat was nearly destroyed. Only three remained out of it. Tempered in the fires of fighting Tjapa, they are now more powerful than most Exalted. The three are Zahhak, the Goddess of Free Will, Ruick, the God of Defiance, and Faust, the Goddess of Unity. Their followers are mostly the petty forces of the galaxy, like subsector powers, single planets, or worldless fleets. These are known as the Ten Thousand Points of Light.