After having escaped from the depths of Karalmir, the Night Terror emerged into the unprepared world of Tourceia. The Night Terror was a huge, horrifying, being of shadow that was capable of killing the most powerful of creatures. It killed for sport, leaving corpses in gruesome positions, seemingly in an attempt to send a message. It primarily killed metallic dragons, and over thirty years, slaughtered hundreds of them—from wyrmlings to ancients. The entire population of platinum dragons were thought to have been slaughtered, although it is said that Tazheran survived. The other metallic ancestries were not so heavily hit as to go completely extinct, although they are extremely close—with most of them having gone into hiding during this event, and not being seen since.