Thra

Thra is the main location of the Dark Crystal franchise. Below Thra is the world of Mithra.
It was home to Gelflings, The urRu (formerly), Skeksis (formerly) Augra, Fezzgig, Podlings, Garthim, and the urSkeks (formerly)
==History==
===Background===
One thousand years ago, before the beginning of the series, Thra was a lustrous planet. When the planet was created, it was forged around a mystical object called the Crystal of Truth, called the "heart" of Thra. The purest crystal, it created the hermit shawoman Aughra to care for its creatures. Mother to all things, Aughra protected the Crystal and all of Thra, connected to all its living creatures, including the Gelfling. However, peace was disturbed when the beings known as the UrSkeks were banished to Thra because they came from a world where sinners were severely punished for any wrongdoings. They befriended Aughra, telling her tales of life beyond Thra. Intrigued, Aughra left the Crystal and Thra to the UrSkeks while she explored the stars. 
The UrSkeks fascinated most of the planet, except for Aughra's son, Raunip, created from a meteor that crash-landed in Thra. Under their rule, the UrSkeks hoped to use the Crystal to cleanse their souls, but instead split into two beings: the Skeksis and the Mystics. The latter of the two were chased out of the castle and the Skeksis took control of Thra while rewriting the history books and making all of Thra's inhabitants bow down before them. They formed the Alliance of the Crystal, which served as peace between the Skeksis and the Gelfling. 
SkekSo's rule was initially a benevolent one, but it ultimately fell apart when the Skeksis began using the Crystal of Truth to prolong their lives. At least 379 trine, the Skeksis conquerer, SkekGra and a Mystic, UrGoh both found peace with each other and were given a vision that a Gelfling would one day free Thra from Skeksis power. They were cast out of their own cultures because the Mystis and the Skeksis refused to listen to them. They lived in exile in the Circle of the Suns and created Lore, a golem made of rock and stored a recording that would lead three heroes of Thra (Brea, Deet and Rian) to them to share the true history of the Skeksis.
While the Skeksis presented themselves as benevolent rulers, in truth, they were vile, power-hungry and selfish who would steal the life force of Thra's living Crystal of Truth to prolong their own and caused it to become a purple color, thus, letting it be rechristened the Dark Crystal. With the corruption of it, a magical disease festered from it known as the Darkening, which caused the plants to die and animals going mad. The inhabitants, blinded by the true nature of the Skeksis, did not know this but their planet was dying because of their rulers' arrogance and their lack of care for other creatures of Thra. Meanwhile, Emperor SkekSo began to experiment on the Darkening, while taking in some of the new power he hoped to one day wield, which in doing so, mutilated his own body as the Darkening had already been doing to the planet.
===The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance===
===The Dark Crystal===
===The Power of the Dark Crystal===
===Beneath the Dark Crystal===
==Native Species==
* Gelfling
* Arathim
* Arduff
* Armalig
* Blindfish
* Brindlisk
* Burrowing Noggie
* Crystal Bat
* Crystal Skimmer
* Daeydoim
* Firelings
* Fizzgig
* Fuchsia Wort Beetle
* Gelfling
* Gobbles
* Great Scarlet Windsifter
* Gruenak
* Hooyim
* Katyaken
* Krikid
* Landstrider
* Lefar Worm
* Locksnake
* Lunarkin	
* Makrak
* Moog
* Mounder
* Muski
* Myrrhie
* Nurloc
* Peeper beetle
* Podling
* Poison Spitter
* Rakkida
* Ruffnaw
* Screechrat
* Shrookil
* Sidetic
* Silk Spitter
* Snoutling
* Sogbird
* Swothel
* Threader
* Tortle
* Tumbeloth
* Unamoth
* Z'nid Bird
== Notable Locations ==
* Castle of the Crystal:  Where the Crystal of Truth was being kept and the place where the Skeksis made it their seat of power during the Age of Division. Jen and Kira were left in change of the Crystal and took up residence there. By the time of the Age of Power, it was the Gelfling Capital.
* Dream Space
* Caves of Grot
** Crystal Desert: Where the Dousan clan live.
*** Circle of the Suns - Ruin located in the Crystal Desert and where SkekGra and UrGoh lived.
* Mithra- The world below Thra and where the Firelings reside.
* Gelfling Ruins: called the houses of the old ones by Kira, it is where Jen and Kira found the Wall of Destiny and learned of their shards true purpose: that it was the shard of the Crystal of Truth.
**Wall of Destiny:  The wall containing the prophecy that Jen would heal the Dark Crystal. 
==Trivia==
* Thra was originally named Mithra, which was instead given to the world beneath Thra in The Power of the Dark Crystal. 
* In previous incarnations, Thra is said to be triangular shaped. However, the planet was seen in Age of Resistance and is the same shape as Earth.
*Earth does indeed exist in the Dark Crystal Universe, just like it does in Marvel and Star Wars.
*The history of Thra is divided in four eras: Age of Innocence, Age of Harmony, Age of Division, and Age of Power. 
** The "Age of Innocence" is the time period in which Thra was formed, and Thra creating Aughra to protect Thra. 
** Age of Harmony is the day that the Fallen UrSkeks arrived on Thra and could only return home unless another Great Conjunction occurred
** Age of Division: The time period that made the Skeksis and the UrRu, causing them to drift apart. It ended when Jen healed the Dark Crystal
** Age of Power: This period began after the crystal was healed and the time when Gelflings were once again a prospering race. The discovery of Mithra was also involved. 
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