The Poisoning of the Oceans and the Drought That Followed

Disaster / Destruction

For years following the Blight, the Ephemeral Sea began to darken and expel entire hordes of dead creatures from its depths, often in varying states of decay or mutation. This led to the beginning of toxic rains and a devastating drought.

The Ephemeral Sea was at one time one of the prime points of food, trade, and travel, but the Blight covered most of it in a deadly, toxic miasma filled with shadowy horrors that made traversing its waters impossible. As the creatures that lived there began to die off and shift into strange and unusual new forms of life, the resource it once provided quickly because unusable and even dangerous. What followed the full corruption of the waters there, slowly turning from the crystal blue-green that earned its name to a black and grey toxic sea also led to the dreaded toxic rains of Cairne, which in some locations can be lethal to most forms of life. The rains became less and less over time leading to a horrendous global drought. The drought caused the death of many crops, some to the point of extinction, and this, in turn, caused starvation and unrest within the people of Cairne. The Culvarkt engineers and the Bechtlarite scholars came together and created many new wonders of technology in an attempt to combat the lack of potable water, and due to their efforts places like the Greenlands Commonage was able to maintain their fields to some degree and survive the worth of it until a form of atmospheric and technological homeostasis could be achieved.