Great Ketellaao

The Great Ketellaao was a major disaster in ancient Soynaltian history in which the Soynaltic civilization was nearly destroyed when the abjaksan of the time lost control of her powers trying to control ancient Qophrae technology.
== Background ==
=== Ancient Technology in Soynaltiar ===
A few centuries before the Ketellaao, roughly three centuries before the first abjaksan, ancient ruins made of metal and stone were discovered on the Soynaltic continent. The locals of the time salvaged the strange technology within, including weapons and agricultural machines. In time came they to understand how it worked and mastered it, eventually learning how to make more, allowing them to tame their home continent and found the Empire of Soynaltiar.
=== Dynastic Conflict ===
Twenty-three centuries later, the Kanjiniro-Tografik War was the conflict between two rival dynastic lines following the extinction of the heirless Hoklorac dynasty. Sensing that Emperor Khaldor Falpdorc dyi Hoklorac was dying, with no heir to the throne both factions readied themselves for war, as both knew that the hegemony of the empire could legally pass to either of them since they both had equal claim to the throne has the dying emperor's closest relatives, and neither was willing to renounce their claim.
The morning of Emperor Khaldor's death, both armies faced each other on the fields outside the capital and charged when the emperor's death was announced. The battle ended in a draw but total war ensued, with the abjaksan of the time, Olicaro dyi Shaldo, siding with the Tografiks.
== The Disaster ==
Several years into the war, the Tografiks found themselves on the backfoot following several losses. As the Kanjiniro army advanced on their position, Olicaro, with the blessing of Emperor Laropaldic, decided to enhance an energy cannon with her power in order to wipe out the enemy all at once. As their enemy approached, Olicaro into the Niyogin, tapping into the power of her few past lives, and pushed her power into the cannon.
However, immediately something went wrong. Olicaro's power just kept pouring out and she could not stop it. The power finally imploded, vaporizing Olicaro and causing an explosion that wiped out everything and everyone nearly a hundred miles around, including the leadership and lines of succession of the warring factions, and triggered a dormant fault line. The resulting series of earthquakes, which were felt all over Qirsyllviar to varying intensities, shook the continent for fourteen full days, triggering every existing fault line and creating several new ones. The shaking also created many tsunamis, some nearly two miles high, that hit the Soynaltic coasts and outlying islands in all directions. 
== Aftermath ==
The quake resulted in over half of the continent's lands, mostly lands to the southwest and the east, breaking off and moving further out. Several sank beneath the waves, but those that didn't became large subcontinental islands outlying the mainland, including the eastern islands now known as the Wildlands.
The disaster decimated Soynaltic civilization to a point it would take centuries to recover. With the leadership of the warring factions obliterated, the surviving peoples formed several independent kingdoms over time. Soynaltiar would not be reunified into a single state for nearly fifteen hundred years.
== Notes & Trivia ==
* While the precise date is uncertain, historians agree that this event took place roughly two centuries following the defeat of Voldrazar by the first seven abjaksan.
* This event is one of the earliest recorded following the creation of the abjaksan.
* This is the first of two times a disaster was caused by an abjaksan losing control of their power. The second time would take place in Tarak two millenniums later.
Category:Qirsyllviar
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Category:Disaster
Category:Abjaksan
Category:Disasters in Maritymiri History