Category:05 The Shattering

600 Arcs before the Oath

And then came the Shattering. No one understands what caused the Shattering, although many theories exist. Some say that the [:Category: Originals | Originals]] were betrayed from within, that one of their number avidly deplored their subjugation of Idalos from the powers that held it before. Others say that the injured Induk lashed out through Idalos in one final, decisive blow. Still, others say the Originals overstepped their powers, were too arrogant and paid the price for that hubris. Some suggest a fate altogether worse. The truth of the matter was that the Originals were destroyed, one by one, within moments of each other. The Immortals, children they left behind that were more of Idalos than Emea, are ignorant of the true cause.

The destruction of the Originals washed across Idalos and the Shay all died with their gods. Having connected the race to themselves, the complete destruction of the Originals supposedly wiped the Shay from the face of Idalos. In mourning, the Immortals turned back to the care of the world that had been left behind. The Dragons remained in their floating islands, the last bastion of Verses worship and the Immortals did not feel compelled to chase them. All they had known was lost to them, including the guidance the Originals provided. Many Immortals had been created to service aspects of mortal society and without examples of that domain to fuel their interest or warrant their protection, many Immortals fell into a period of deep depression.

What the Immortals failed to see beneath them as they searched for answers beyond were the Humans that spawned from the places the Originals had perished. Beneath the radiance of the Grand Fractures created by their Shattering, Humans were born into reality. The Emean connection the Originals had to the Shay fomented the desire to perpetuate that inventiveness, that ingenuity, that resilience the Originals had come to admire so completely. The Shay and the Humans both inherited the will to create and the freedom to choose. Their connection to Emea made their belief and faith power to the Originals and those of their ilk, just as the Shay’s belief had powered the Originals ages before. Although the humans were only a little like the Shay in appearance, they better resembled the Immortals and the Originals themselves, born from the remnants of the Shay and remade in the images of the Originals now lost from Idalos.

When the Immortals finally became aware of them, the people had begun to build civilizations, like the Shay had done long before, and were building their own legends, ideas, stories.

The Immortals once more had purpose, and the history of New Idalos began.