Originally posted by ODG
Wha? Just answer my question. All the other New Gods descended. Where was the upheaval from their descent? Orion was still alive when he descended onto Earth. Re-read Final Crisis #1:
one of his emanations/avatars.
Darkseid was the only one alive. And he purposely crashed his true essence into the multiverse.
The rest of the gods are dead, the other evil gods inhabiting bodies in the story are extensions of Darkseid, and Orion is dead. Except for Metron because he wasn’t part of the war.
https://web.archive.org/web/20140629052339/http://www.newsarama.com/485-grant-morrison-on-final-crisis-2.html
GM:
As we find out, the only New God to be reborn is Darkseid himself. Based on what Jack Kirby himself established, we know that Darkseid has the power to recreate his whole court - Glorious Godfrey, Granny Goodness, Kalibak and the others - from nothing more than memories. As we know, he’s able to restore them all to life even after they’ve been killed, so what we’re seeing in Final Crisis is something similar. I’m playing Darksid’s allies more as emanations of His Will, like shades in the spectrum of his absolute Evil.
Look, there’s no arguing it, not only is it on panel in story repeatedly that his fall is the cause of the destruction, but Morrison also states in interviews.
It’s also in there numerous times exactly what the Antilife is responsible for in the story. It’s an attack on free will/the soul.
https://web.archive.org/web/20150420151309/http://www.newsarama.com/965-grant-morrison-on-final-crisis-3.html
NRAMA: To translate Uberfraulein's comments, she mentions the "bleeding heavens" - basically, we're taking that this is the Supergirl from earth-10 as shown in the final pages of 52? And that means that something is ripping up the multiverse?
GM: The Multiversal structure of parallel worlds is collapsing. Darkseid’s fall has broken the Multiverse basically and he’s pulling everything that exists down with him into Hell, the swine!
If you’re unwilling to actually read the book and look for all the times it’s mentioned that Darkseid’s fall is the cause or the other time where it mentions his presence is warping time, I can dig up when I have time and put them on imgr for you.