Didn't Lucian send his agent (Ifan) to get the elves out but he didn't make it in time?
I haven't got past chapter 2 yet so this is speculation but, at present, it seems to me that the gods are flawed because they too were mortals - once called eternals. One, Armadia was recognized by Fane as Lady Armadia. Fane says the seven races all have some similarities to eternals in how they appear, there was a comment somewhere or another that referred to a people who just disappeared, Fane mentions that the gods somehow look familiar to him, etc.
The Seven Divines were Eternals,
seven Lords, who stole the power Fane discovered and made themselves gods.
Ifan was supposed to deliver a portal device for the Elves to escape, but
in fact it was a Deathfog bomb, a device to deliver large masses of Deathfog
you will find that after speaking to a certain Dwarven scientist in the cave where Lohar sent you (after Mordus).
