there's some article about the death of aroden, I mean, how he really was killed, woh did It and thing like that, I want to know more details...
Sorry for the poor english, I'm Brazilian....
I'm GMing this world for a short time...
I Liked so much but I'm trying to find more information about the world in question....
Paizo has come right out and said several times that while there is a specific reason for Aroden's death they have no intention of detailing it for the foreseeable future. So while there's no way for you to find out how he died in canon, there will also be nothing to contradict any reason you give in your home game.
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My guess is he stumbled into the Forgotten Realms during an edition change.
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You get to make up your own fate for Aroden, and canon will never contradict you!
Some ideas.
Aroden is;
a) Faking it. Looking to see which of his Starstone Scions is 'up to something' and would try to usurp his power. The self-proclaimed 'Inheritor' is gonna get a time out when he's satisfied with this experiment.
b) During Earthfall, another Azlanti god(dess) formed from the anguished deaths of tens of thousands of Azlanti, and exists as a fractured wailing thing, born of torment and confusion. Part of her wants to live again. Part of her wants every other Azlanti to die, to silence the voices forever, and 'the Last Azlanti,' Aroden, was at the top of her list. Aroden realized that she would slaughter the rest of the scattered Azlanti, unless he accepted her embrace, and held her fast, her destructive self-loathing contained. He now lies trapped within the corporeal manifestation of her wrath, the Eye of Abendago.
c) Asmodeus has been tapping the power of the prison that cages the Rough Beast to do... stuff. It's all very complicated, and nobody's business. The disasters and portents that accompanied the disappearance of Aroden had nothing to do with his disappearance. In fact, it was the use of Aroden, body and soul, to reinforce the weakened prison, and contain Rovagug, who was literally breaking free at that very moment, that caused the disasters to *stop.*
Which begs the question, if it took Aroden's very divinity to *repair* the prison, what the hell was it made out of in the first place? Or, more specifically, who?
Other questions; How did it happen? Did Aroden volunteer? Was he 'pushed?' Was Asmodeus alone in the decision, or was there a conspiracy of silence? Who else knows? Does Abadar know, and resignedly accept it as the price of keeping Rovagug contained (and, oh-so-conveniently stepping in to take over as 'god of civilization')? Does Sarenrae know, and mournfully accept that the dead god of the dead Azlanti was already on the way out anyway, and is doing more good containing Rovagug than he was fading into obsolence century by century? Did Pharasma dispassionately chart this course as she pilots the vessel of mortal fate?
d) He jumped. Aroden discovered that the Age of Prophecy ended with the apocalypse, and that he was inextricably bound to that fate. And so he flipped off destiny and killed himself, throwing prophecy into disastrous disarray, causing all sorts of upheavels, but sparing all of Golarion from a final and terrible fate. He read the prophecy and smashed the tablets upon they were written, knowing that it was written in his bones, inked in his blood. Only by destroying himself, could he stymie this destiny and save the world, although, unable to see beyond the sundering of prophecy (and his own death), he died wondering if he was saving the world, or destroying it, as whatever future lay beyond his death was obscured to him...
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There are some things that Paizo has said they will not straight out reveal, and Aroden's cause of death is one of them. see The wiki page on Golarion mysteries that are going to continue as mysteries.
Also feel free to browse around the wiki to get other information!