10/25/2022 0 Comments Elder sign omens gog![]() ![]() The sky changed everywhere to different degrees (the most apparent of these changes occurred in the Southern part of the continent) and there was a constant and strengthening droning sound heard everywhere for a few hours. The few contemporary accounts say that the sun stopped at midday and did not move. The Calamity itself began on the 24th of Xunais in the last year of the old calendar (I.C. Taken from the official report of Grand Magister Valdar of the Crimson Order before the Senate (P.C. That means it is impossible to have anyone be able to commit such energies other than, perhaps, the Gods.’ Considering the range and variety of all the accounted episodes during the incident, the magical energy required to perform such feats can only be described as cosmic. Thus, it can be established with almost complete certainty that whatever fuelled the combination of seemingly otherworldly phenomena that we call the Calamity is magical in origin and nature. The theory stipulates that the arcane footprint, or resonance, of today’s anomalies have their roots in the Calamity and therefore must share the same arcane attributes. It is difficult to be certain, since no measurements survived the event, but applying Bethanus’s theory, we can consider contemporary samples adequate. ‘Upon closer inspection, all thaumaturgical evidence points towards an arcane incident. Most citizens of the Empire believed that the end of the world is nigh, so as expected, many went on sprees of indulgences or violence. Servants of the theocracy ordered the people to pray to the Emperor. The earth shook, and all of nature was in a panicked frenzy. Terrible storms ravaged the provinces while deadly hurricanes and floods invaded the coastlines. At places a blood-like substance fell from the sky, at others acidic rains struck. About a week before the Calamity (by the 16th of Xunais), the portents started to become stranger, and decidedly more violent. On the order of the Twelve, however, these curious and threatening phenomena were ignored, regarded as manifestations of the gods’ anger owing to rebelling subjects. ![]() ![]() It is said that the Elder Gods could no longer abide Imperial cruelty and evil done in their name, so many retrospectively speculate that the Omens were supposed to be their warnings. Initially, these were mild, but still odd: milk curdled in seconds, crops ripened and died in a matter of hours, eerie sounds were heard on the night winds, streams flew backwards, lunatics raved most disturbingly, and animals began to migrate at random. As hundreds of thousands of Virani were being put to death, the first Omens began to appear. Chief among the atrocities involved was the genocide committed in Viran, a country that was especially rebellious, and the Twelve Apostles decided to make an example of it. The Empire was on the brink of civil war. Excerpt from a survivor’s written account (dated 4 days before the Calamity) Perodius touched it against our warnings and it ate him alive in seconds.’ Where it congregated, countless tiny black things swarmed in it. It seemed to move with a will of its own and collected into puddles. Upon closer inspection it looked like an oily, crimson substance with dark streaks. ‘What rained from the sky looked like no rain at all, but more like blood. All of this began with the Omens, about a month prior to the devastation. Ever since then, a new calendar has been in use. It changed everything nature’s laws no longer apply to many places, the fabric of reality is broken, all cultures involved were changed irreversibly, and the creators of the universe disappeared. ![]() The Calamity is perhaps the single most important event in the history of the Empire and the continent of Xeryn, if not the entire world. It is said that grief and shame broke them, and they left this reality, never to return.’ The gods then saw what they had done in their anger and confusion. In a chain of dreadful events that became known as The Calamity, they destroyed the Empire in a matter of days. Foretold by a slew of divine omens, they descended upon the Empire to right its wrongs. ‘Eventually the gods could not tolerate such horrors done in their name. 'After only days Xeryn was reduced to little more than rubble and cursed wastelands. ![]()
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