Saurial Culling

The Saurial Culling was a systematic magicide perpetrated by the various saurial peoples in the late Age of Rebirth (29344 Celestial Count; -120 AoV). Their beliefs were that mortals should not be allowed to handle magic, and thus slaughtered all they could find. In these efforts, the saurial people were condensed into a singular society and asserted dominance over the continent of Enagia. This formed the Saurial Empire, the first society of its kind on Dorhaun.
Ironically, the most effective agents of the culling were in essence arcanists themselves, though they did not see it that way. They called themselves "spelldrinkers" and learned to consume arcane energy, ripping enchantments from the land. It is rumored that the greatest of them "drank" from the leylines themselves. After 40 years, on Dorhaun's first Night of the Black Mirror, there was a calamity-inducing battle on the eastern coast of Enagia between the elementals Gwaruunvoad and Deluge. On this night, Tyrranor Sut-Tovouk discovered the spelldrinking of his priests and ordered them all killed. The Saurial Empire tore itself apart and the culling ended.
Category:Events