From the depths of the sea

On the day our long-awaited hopes were fulfilled, we found ourselves in a cave hidden deep among the ice giants on Brictaelgis. After about an hour of walking, we reached a shipyard that housed a huge ship. It was closed all around, but thick portholes were supposed to allow a view of the outside. I saw how many more people, as well as numerous animals, plants and boxes, were loaded into the giant's hull. Was I scared? Well, no one knew what to expect.
In the evening we were greeted by the captain of the ship, who stood in the middle of our ranks and said: "Now friends, our revenge has come. After this day we will build for ourselves a world without magic." The crowd clapped and cheered until the ship began to rock slightly. Through the portholes we could see that the bright bluish light of the ice was slowly turning dark and creatures from the Arctic Ocean were swimming past us. The boat started moving and left the cave. We looked at the world of the Arctic Ocean around us in amazement, without knowing what horrors were taking place on the coasts, on land and in the cities. But maybe we didn't even want to know.

Mirror Rebel, 2,800 BEC Records of the Guild of Enki in Naharin-

Calm before the storm by Blue Fairy 74 via Midjourney

The most devastating catastrophe ever to occur on Elaqitan emerged without warning from the depths of the sea in 2,800 BEC and wiped out entire areas of land. Mirror Rebels had developed a weapon over the last ten years prior to the event and installed it on many of the world's Mirror Gates.

The "Harp of Wrath" set off a chain reaction that swallowed the waters of the deep sea, flooding the Mirror cloud paths and catching the Elaqitanians completely unawares in their daily business as the portals opened like floodgates of hell, spewing waves of destruction.

We were standing on the street when a roar and noise shook the buildings around us. In the distance we heard a rush, as if we were standing next to a raging river that we couldn't overcome. We ran back into the house and climbed onto the roof to see what was going on.

A terror came over us and we stared rooted to the spot at the threat. A huge wave tormented itself through the narrow streets like a water dragon gone wild. The flood tore down everything in its path. I yelled at my children and wife to get into our little airship immediately. We were scared to death. Somehow I managed to release the anchor and we flew up. More and more small boats, balloons and ferries sought escape upwards. But among us, we all had to watch as our houses disappeared in the floods.

Surviving Téshàni -

Impacts on the individual continents

Uluriqii

Where the portal to the deep sea once swallowed the huge masses of water, the huge abyss of the Dragon's Throat is still a reminder of the catastrophe. Since the former portal imploded due to the masses of water and its magic caused a raging whirlpool on the ocean floor, the abyss could never be filled again. The whirlpool still exists today and not only all the falling waterfalls are drawn into it and released again in the whirlpool mountains.
The smaller Elaqitan islands had the fewest portals and were therefore the least destroyed. According to legend, the water here only retreated far into the sea and only rose again after days, with all sorts of destroyed and decaying things washing up and piling up into meter-high towers.

Téshàn

Many fairy-elves from the Air Continent were able to take refuge in flying vehicles on the islands or the plateaus in the clouds, while the lower cities and jungles were razed to the ground.

Layida

The Continent of Fire, Layida, was hit worst. The inrushing water flooded the lava flows in many places, resulting in rising hot and toxic gases that turned most of the continent into a sauna.
The water masses caused the largest volcanic eruption in the history of Layida in the once volcanoes of Walkala and led to the division of the south-eastern continent, creating the Sea of Fire and the island of Wajali.

Dragon's Lair by Blue Fairy 74 via Midjourney

World tree defies the flood by Blue Fairy 74 via Midjourney

Security in the clouds by Blue Fairy 74 via Midjourney

Black Smoke by Blue Fairy 74 via Midjourney

Aqitalu

The Island of the Elements was home to the largest gate and this was one of the last to be closed and one of the first to be opened. After the flood, nothing was left except the world tree, which lost all of its leaves due to the force of the water and took years to bloom again.

Brictaelgis

Flooded portals on Brictaelgis turned many meadows into avalanches of mud, carrying with them the uprooted trees of the forests. Survivors fled to the higher elevations of the continent's three mountain ranges. It took centuries for nature to return to the green diversity it had before the catastrophe.

Idaka

On Idaka, only the largest cities, where most of the Homo Elaqitanii lived, were overwhelmed by the flood. The Mirror Rebels did not want to inflict more harm on their non-magical compatriots and mainly wanted to take revenge on those who actually caused the catastrophe.

How many Elaqitanians died as a result of the catastrophe and its consequences cannot be quantified, but the flood left its mark like a watermark on the memories of the survivors. For many decades, the survivors suffered the consequences and the world came to a standstill everywhere.

Many of those who survived the catastrophe in the arks and conquered a new world in Naharin were unable to live with the guilt they had incurred or fell into severe depression. However, those who celebrated their revenge later tried everything to cover up their involvement and, years later, lead many survivors to the promised land of their new home without magic.