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== The First Sundering == Nineteen Thousand Years ago in the Forgotten Realms, hundreds of Elven High Mages came together at the gathering place to cast a mighty spell. One that would create a new elven homeland where the elves could live in peace and safe from the forces of Lolth and Malar and the other evils that threatened them. The spell succeeded, more or less -- creating the Isle of Evermeet far off to the West. A green and pleasant land where they could live in peace -- but Evermeet was born out of a tragic catastrophe. Such powerful magic was beyond the control of even these powerful High Mages and even as the new land was born and the one land, Faerûn, was torn apart into different continents, giving its name to the largest of those continents. Elliandrith of Orishar was an elven wizard of the time, he was not a High Mage, he didn't participate in the Ritual so therefore didn't die -- but he was still attuned to the Magical Weave and as the spell of the High Mages spread, it rippled forward and backward through Time and Elliandrith saw two similar events to that Sundering and in this verse, he described all three of them as <i>"Sunderings."</i> His verse is actually why the Elven Sundering is called the Sundering and it also pointed to two other events when the world was torn asunder.<br /> <br /> So, the first one of those is known to historians as the <i>"Tearfall"</i> and it happened Thirty Two Thousand Years ago, when the world was dominated by the Creator Races and humans were primitive ape-like beings living in caves. One of the Creator Races was an amphibious race called the <i>"Batrachi,"</i> and they were embroiled in a war against armies of Titans. Desperate to save themselves in this loosing battle, they cast a mighty spell of their own and they woke several Primordials from their slumber. As Primordials started to rise up and rampage across the World again, the Gods quickly came to confront their ancient foes and mighty battle ensued. Earthquakes, fires, and windstorms tore across the World and as the battle drew to a climax, the Primordial called <i>"Asgorath the World-shaper"</i> took and ice moon and basically said, <i>"If I cannot rule this Planet, no one can!"</i> and hurled it toward the World. Then the Over-god stepped in. Ao said <i>"No, this World is not going to be destroyed."</i> and he created a twin of it. He gave the Gods dominion over Toril, the old World and gave the Primordials dominion over Abeir, the new one.<br /> <br /> There are ancient reports from a different creator race, the <i>"Sarrukh"</i> that comment on the changing of the stars -- but until recently no one really understood what that meant or gave it much credence. Asgorath's attack did not leave Toril unscathed, continents were torn apart and the World was devastated. The four inner seas merged together to form what is now The Sea of Fallen Stars. The dramatic climate change that followed pretty much spelled the extinction of the Batrachi and gave rise to the dominance of the dragons. Scholars have long called this event the Tearfall and speculated that a comet or maybe an ice moon and fell from the sky and dealt all this damage -- but again it wasn't until the return of Abeir and the Spellplague that the true significance of the event became clear.<br /> <br /> What is less well known is the role played in this event by the ancient artifacts called <i>"The Tables of Fate."</i> Ao created these Tables at the separation of the World to stand as a barrier between the two Worlds -- to keep the Gods and the Primordials separate from each other and to maintain a precarious balance between the two. In the immortal words of the novel Waterdeep, <i>"On these artifacts,"</i> the Over-lord said,<i> "I have recorded the forces that balance law and chaos."</i> The Tablets of Fate served as pillars to maintain the separations of the Worlds -- anchors for the mighty magic that Ao used to Sunder the Worlds and a clear delineation of the role of Gods and Primordials in the Universe. So that was the First Sundering.<br /> <br />
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