Breaking of Arcadia

At the end of the Age of Might, the world called Arcadia suffered a disaster. The consensus by scholars is that it was cause by the gods to punish the corruption of the temples. This event signaled the end of the Age of Might and the start of the Age of Iron.
There were earthquakes, fires in the sky, volcanoes erupting, tempest winds, the landmass was ripped apart, land sunk into the sea, the temples were attacked by wraiths.
In the aftermath, all resurrection magic has either ceased to work or been prevented from working. Those brave clerics who attempt to investigate the situation are only met with silence & intimidation from the gods.Tombs of Scoria: Episode 48
==Meta Note==
In Dicing with Death: Episode 058 (Aired 5 July 2015) it was only the island of Arcadia that suffered from the Breaking. To the people of Solum, Arcadia is known as a cursed land because of this event.
However in Save or Die: Outcasts: Episode 18 (Aired 28 February 2024) it is said that the whole of the world of Arcadia that suffered from the Breaking. This latter version of the lore is being taken as canon as of now.
==Known effects of this cataclysm==
The effects of the Breaking outside of the Arcadian Isles is mostly unknown. It is said the earthquakes and terrain changes were world-wide.Save or Die: Outcasts: Episode 18
===Arcadia (Continent)===
* The creation of the Grand Canal, splitting the Vodan Empire and Elven Woods.
** These canals eventually became the borders of modern (Age of Iron) Eridon, Mistrya, and Sylvas.
* Gade Isle became an island, previously being part of the Arcadia Mainland.
* Creation of the Shallow Sea
* South West part of Ancient Drekis sunk into the sea, leaving behind the Iron Ridge peninsula.
* The sinking of The Talens, killing the Elven and Halfling population there.
* The North-West Forest of Ancient Arcadia sunk into the sea. The area to the south of the forest became verdant plains that were settled by what is now called Akuba.
* The Shadow Mountains rose up, and Teras Isle became a peninsula.
* Wake County island became a peninsula.
* The creation of Paradise Island (GNoME's main island).
* Minotauria was entirely unaffected.
Research by Barthas the Wizard claims that Brimstone the Fire Incarnate became trapped under the Volcano on Embershore during the Breaking of Arcadia. Embershore wasn't an island prior to the breaking, and was one of the "Three Sisters" Volcanos in the Age of Might.
===Bravo===
The formerly temperate land was beset by storms as mountains rose up from the ground and destroyed the existing human empires of the land. The land became a humid jungle, separated by the many mountain ranges.
===Caldonia===
The whole of the continent was frozen over. The human population was entirely slain within minutes, except those already in shelter, who only could endure for so long. The elven population is also assumed to have been slain in this incident.
The wildlife and creatures left alive in the frozen Caldonia were magically transformed by patron gods so they could survive in their new climate.
Spoiler
The freezing of Caldonia was not caused by the gods but the Scrags using an Orb to freeze the continent of Caldonia, specifically to kill the Humans.
==Documentation==
Trellis had a vision of the day of the cataclysm, as viewed from inside a Pyramid Temple to Tempos on Leech Island, West of Akuba. She first saw an earthquake, then the clerics and priests of the temple were attacked by a wraith that turned into a vampiric mist.Misscliks: Seaborn: Chapter 3 Episode 6
Georg entered a pre-Breaking Sealed Temple and discovered a number of Wraiths also sealed within.Dicing with Death: Episode 082
Malakai met with Luna, an ancient elf from The Talens who was alive when her civilization sank beneath the waves. She recalled her land sinking beneath the waves. Fires in the sky, great winds blowing, trees being uprooted, mountains bursting into flame, the screams of the dead and dying. She also added that while there were crimes against the gods from those that worshipped them, no specific organization was specifically responsible. She puts the blame on arrogance of mankind, elvenkind and other kinds using too much power unchecked.Hardcore Heroes: Episode 42
At the Caldonian Velmontarious Monastery, the monks within prayed to their god, asking why they were forsaken, as detected by thought capture.Misscliks: Seaborn: Chapter 4 Episode 7
Also in Caldonia, in the protected Salt Port Salt Mine, a preserved journal detailed the days after the cataclysm, that anything leaving the mine would flash freeze, and it appeared suddenly.Frozen Frontier Episode 11
== References ==
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