Night of the Raging Star
The star's answer to blasphemous prayers.
The Night of the Raging Star refers to an impact event which occurred 213 years before Elmeyon Crendameth's Rebellion, wherein a meteorite of unknown proportions crashed into the eastern plain of the Grand Duchy of Magna, leading to a massive explosion which leveled most of the forests and villages around its impact site. Because of the Sunseeker Empire's unwillingness to recognize or explain such events, the exact number of casualties is unknown, but it is estimated in being between five and seven thousand people. Its impact site is believed to be the Wound of the Crown, a sinkhole near the city of Solaris. An estimated of eleven villages were destroyed, with some of the ash deposited in the lake bed serving as proof that they once stood there.
The name of this event comes from the fact that many people across the country saw the meteor as it streaked through the Kingdom's night sky, burning white-hot and on a collision course with the world's surface. Some can still remember the sound the object made as it sped through the planet's atmosphere, with one witness describing it as a metal screeching as it is being ground by and poorly maintained whetstone. The air itself was a conflagration that spread upwards, being visible from hundreds of kilometres away from the impact site, causing crops and forests to burn from its sheer intensity. The earth shook violently, with its tremors being felt at either end of the Kingdom's edges, and the villages closest to the impact suffered greatly because of this.
A week after the event occurred, the people around the crater had gathered their wits enough to go on an expedition to ascertain the true nature of the disaster. They would not be able to see much, as once they arrived at the cusp of the newly formed mountains, they could see nothing but water pouring into the growing lake from several underwater ravines, with one person describing it as "blood pouring from open veins", with the edge that cut it being a deformed black rock that was almost invisible under the pouring liquid. There was little to no evidence of any town ever existing here.
The eponymous Raging Star has never been recovered, but there have been several attempts to do so over the course of the last 239 years with none yielding great success so far. The reasons people have to claim the meteorite as their own have varied throughout the years, with most citing mystical properties inherent to that which is not from the world. Be these as the may, the fact is that the Raging Star is still at the bottom of the lake it created, as most scholars predict there is not enough erosion to completely do away with it.
As a result of this event, several cults, sects, groups and other organizations seeking power through destruction have taken the Raging Star as their symbol, as there is nothing as devastating to the world as that which comes from outside of it.
The name of this event comes from the fact that many people across the country saw the meteor as it streaked through the Kingdom's night sky, burning white-hot and on a collision course with the world's surface. Some can still remember the sound the object made as it sped through the planet's atmosphere, with one witness describing it as a metal screeching as it is being ground by and poorly maintained whetstone. The air itself was a conflagration that spread upwards, being visible from hundreds of kilometres away from the impact site, causing crops and forests to burn from its sheer intensity. The earth shook violently, with its tremors being felt at either end of the Kingdom's edges, and the villages closest to the impact suffered greatly because of this.
A week after the event occurred, the people around the crater had gathered their wits enough to go on an expedition to ascertain the true nature of the disaster. They would not be able to see much, as once they arrived at the cusp of the newly formed mountains, they could see nothing but water pouring into the growing lake from several underwater ravines, with one person describing it as "blood pouring from open veins", with the edge that cut it being a deformed black rock that was almost invisible under the pouring liquid. There was little to no evidence of any town ever existing here.
The eponymous Raging Star has never been recovered, but there have been several attempts to do so over the course of the last 239 years with none yielding great success so far. The reasons people have to claim the meteorite as their own have varied throughout the years, with most citing mystical properties inherent to that which is not from the world. Be these as the may, the fact is that the Raging Star is still at the bottom of the lake it created, as most scholars predict there is not enough erosion to completely do away with it.
As a result of this event, several cults, sects, groups and other organizations seeking power through destruction have taken the Raging Star as their symbol, as there is nothing as devastating to the world as that which comes from outside of it.
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