Era
The Breaking (Year Zero)
Description
The cataclysm that shattered the world into unstable reality shards. Cause unknown — theories range from a failed god-ritual to a magical war that breached the foundations of existence. In a single day, continents broke apart, seas fell into void, and the sky fractured like glass. Billions died. The survivors cling to stable shards, maintained by ward magic.
Key Participants
The Old GodsThe Stormweaver BloodlineThe First Ward Smiths
Consequences
Reality permanently fractured. The old civilizations destroyed. Magic fundamentally changed — now drawn from the cracks between shards. New threats emerged from the Shardvoid. The remaining population reduced to perhaps one-tenth of pre-Sundering numbers.