The Reaping

Concept
"The Reaping" is the name given to the apocalyptic events that span across all of the realms. It is the last effort to maintain the fragility of reality before The Void devours the realms instead. The Gods saw that the only solution was the complete and total genocide and collection of all souls contained in each realm so that they can be transferred into the Sanctuary. The Sanctuary would contain all life and serve as an offering to be consumed so that the Void would return to a dormant state for another several billion years. Though all life is destroyed, the realms would remain to continue new life and the lives of the Gods are spared. The Gods sought to utilize The Ark as a means to rapidly innovate civilizations and increase their populations to meet a quota by the time their time is up to conduct the next Reaping. It is unknown how many Reapings have occurred.

The Reaping is the required apocalypse of all realms within The Aether.

Concept
During The Eon of Genesis, The Void was made "dormant" as to not consume all of creation, by The Original One. The Void will remain in this state for billions of years until it's hunger for souls grows larger than this mystic slumber. When this happens, it musters the strength to break from it's bonds and satisfy it's hunger, while laying waste across all of the realms, consuming everything, including the Divine Beings themselves. To keep this from happening, Kahn made his younger brother, Drem responsible for finding a solution to the problem. Drem found that massive amounts of souls satisfy it's hunger faster than entire galaxies and large portions of matter. Because none of the gods can conjure souls from nothing, Drem proposed that they boost the population of existing mortal civilizations across the cosmos by building on their technologies and increasing their populations so that they can be later harvested and sacrificed. Though the method originally sounded selfish and unthinkably evil, Drem also revealed that this "Reaping" would exponentially increase the amount of time the Void would be satisfied and dormant. After only 3 reapings, the gods could have enough time to develop a newer, more humane system of managing souls. This newer system would later be known as The Eon of Judgement.