Soaring of Akkaz

## Overview

The Soaring of Akkaz was a monumental event in the history of Soly. It occurred about one year after Akkaz - a poor Pulsekaw boy with a terrible and rare illness - escaped the confines of a structure known as the Deid's Pits where he was studied, and subsequently tortured beyond comprehension. Akkaz was able to achieve The Soaring via an unknown method after this escape.

This event singlehandedly marked the end of the Pulsekaw Era within moments, and propelled Soly into the Human Era, which is still ongoing as of current events.

## Conditions

Not much is known about what happened to Akkaz after he escaped his containment in the Deid's Pits, but what is known is that he developed an insatiable craving for Mint during this time. When he eventually reached his breaking point, Akkaz managed to find The Soaring independently in an unmarked cave, likely in the northern coast of the Gryusch Wilds.

Supposedly, there was someone else present at the moment of Akkaz's Soaring.

SPOILERS:

After Akkaz escaped the Deid's Pits, he fled into a Calamity Tree where he was able to descend far beyond the Pilfering Depths. As each step claimed something from him, he would almost assuredly regenerate it due to his Lymibody condition, allowing him to ignore the dreadful conditions the tree's depths usually carried. It was in the farthest depths that he met Eiveah.

## Effects on Soly

Within the first few seconds of Akkaz's Soaring, every single highborn Pulsekaw in all of Soly was ripped from the plane in what was likely a rather traumatic, yet painless transition. All Highborn Pulsekaw ripped from the plane in this way were suspended in open white rooms called "Mint Gardens", where they were left in stunned confusion for some time. Not immediately, but not long after these Pulsekaw found themselves imprisoned, strange creatures calling themselves "Couriers" would appear, informing each Pulsekaw in very basic terms their current situation, ending the exchange by informing them of their parent's passing (those who had both parents alive at the time of the Soaring of Akkaz would receive two visits from the Couriers, with the second visit always informing the prisoner of their mother's passing)".

The Mint Gardens would manifest "gateways" in the physical realm of Soly too. Cruelly, the imprisoned Pulsekaw within each Garden would be allowed to view and even interact with this gateway from within, but always be pushed aside, unable to exit. The gateways within Soly however would sting lightly of a Minty scent, and only allow Humans to enter.

The Lowborn Pulsekaw left behind by The Soaring of Akkaz were treated far more harshly. Their reliance on the previous hierarchy left them disorganized and confused, and their additional confusion and terror made quick work of whatever structure they tried to assemble. Not only that, but a constant pull strained each and every one remaining, a slow and agonizing death that promised to erase every last remaining Lowborn. Despite their fragility, the Lowborn all desperately bound themselves to Soly using the Pulse "Ghuem". This left them worse off cognitively, but alive. As their intellect, memory, and culture rapidly decayed, the remaining Pulsekaw became bound to Soly in the form of a new species called "Canickaw".

The immediate end of the Pulsekaw Era in Soly, combined with the new mysterious pull of the Mint Gardens gave rise to a very ambitious group of Humans. Once the Nuuomokaw accepted an exceptionally rare meeting, their ambassador claimed wholly they had no interest in fighting for the title of "Superior" in Soly. Thus, essentially by default, the Human Era began.

Immediately after the Soaring of Akkaz, all newborn Humans were dragged to Akkaz and interrogated one by one. There, he would name each Human according to their answers to his foresight on their lives, and not permit them to take on any other. This would become known as the "Curse of Names". All babies born after the Soaring of Akkaz would always be in a state of panic and hysteria. No Human was ever again brought to Soly peacefully.