The Ice Age didn't happen over night. It took 7 and a half months to be in full swing. First Baal's body exploded, decimating the surrounding area the size of what would later be known as Africa. The light from the blast encompassed the entire planet causing it to be daylight for six weeks straight. In those six weeks of constant day light, the temperature rose high enough to wipe out 1/3 of the human populace. The last day of the six weeks of global sunlight and extreme temperature increase, the temperature started to slowly decrease and the light started to slowly fade. Those that had so far survived thought that they would get back to normal life soon. Unfortunately when day became night and never returned and the temperatures continued to drop towards freezing, panic started to inssue. It was during this cool down period that war broke out between the 3 remaining kingdoms due to the others believing that the Kingdom of Night was responsable for the eternal night because they were called the Kingdom of Night of course. But as the world started to freeze and The Night Kingdom the only one not suffuring from both the war and the extreme weather changes, The Merchant and Dragamoore Kingdoms entered an uneasy truce with the Kingdom of Night.
Baal was unique even among his own kind. He had an ability whether learned or genetic is unknown that allowed him to eventually be reborn apon his death. However due to the wounds he suffered during the Battle for the MilkyWay and the very nature of his death, his rebirthing process was corrupted and essintually his soul was erased. Only his body, knowledge, memories, and power remained. Something called The Last Primordial Shard of Chaos replaced his soul and was reborn into the Night Kingdom as Jester. At the age of 16 Jester invokes the ancient tribal law of the Night Kingdom: Trial by combat for the crown. The King of course accepts the challenge, unfortanteley him and everyone else present was unprepared for that witch was the being called Jester who's resemblance was that of their Great God Scientist Baal.
Jester completely decimates the young King in a onesided hand to hand combat witch was supposed to be the King's specialty. But at the start of the match Jester snatches up the King by his throat faster than anyone could see and gives him a solid thrashing, slamming him into the ground first to his left then to his right in rapid fire succession. Then he holds the king up for the audience to see and then proceeds to tear first one arm then the other from the king's torso. The King's legs were next to be ripped from him. Finally the King was turned side was as Jester shoves his hand into the King's stomach ripping out his entrails and tearing him in half as he tears the King's head from his shoulders with his other hand. With a mighty yell, Jester drinks the blood as it poor's from the former King's head. Then after eating the eyes, brain and heart declares himself King Baal God of destruction the New King of Night.
For the first six months the entire Kingdom of Night was a blood bath as everyone of nobility class or higher including the kingdom's top military generals and the entire elite class saught vengance for the death of the previous king and failed. The other two Kings learned of the power struggle for the throne to the Kingdom of Night and sent assassins of their own. Those attempts failed as well. This eventually earned the new King the moniker "The Undying King". On the last day of the six month blood bath, the new King made his first appearance as King since he took the throne.
The new King no longer looked like their God Baal. He was six foot tall 200 pounds of pure raw bulging muscle that pulsated with a life of its own at times. He was dressed in an all black elegant silk satin suite trimmed in silver and adorned with a unique and odd colored stone- it appeared to swirl with shades of red,blue,purple and black in its own unique mixture. His hair was a stark contrast to his otherwise dark figure. It was waist long, silvery white in color with a blue glow to it like ice. However the most outlandish feature of the new King was his eyes: his pupils were reptilian shaped and blood red in color. The irises a violet and the whites a cold blue banded in gold. And to all who looked at them, they seemed to glow from within. Once those gathered finally quietened down the King spoke:
" Continue to oppose me and I shall be this kingdom's extinction event. Follow me and this Kingdom shall flourish for eternity for I hold both of your God's knowledge and power within me. I demand both loyalty and respect. I protect what is mine with a power unlike any mortal before. This is MY KINGDOM. You are MY PEOPLE. Remember this for I have spoken and it is true. Everything shall continue as normal. I shall restore the Capital and the ranks of those whom apposed me and got slaughtered. The former king was great yes but I am better. That is all." After that the new King returned to his castle.
During the rebirthing process, Baal lost of knowledge of the Last shard of Primordial Chaos residing within himself so he focused on expanding his knowledge and his kingdom. The ice age was all encompassing turning the entire planet into one giant ball of ice. Only the 750 thousand acres that the 3 kingdoms occupied remained untouched. Geothermic metal walls and a dome got erricted over the human empire. The Merchant and Dragamoore Kingdoms once again try to go to war with the Night Kingdom only to be razed to the ground, the Kings beheaded and the rest enslaved into the working class and military thus raising the status of the Night Kingdom to The Shadow Empire.