This article is about the geological event, for the mythological event see The Shattering
The Shattering was an ecological disaster that occured in the land around the Xeri river plains on the Schui'net on Lotnef'pui. The Shattering occured when the area around the
Xeri River Plains desertified displacing socities out of the plains.
Climate
Starting around the year 200 BS, annual rainfall began to decline year after year, causing droughts and crop failures throughout the Xeri River Plains. This process would reach its apex around the year 0. Throughout this period, local grasses would begin to gradually die out, causing the primary foodsource for local herbivores to die out. This caused many local species to either begin to migrate out of the Xeri River Plains or completely die out. This allowed the Shattering to be humanity's best documented example of ecological change and collapse. The documentation of the shattering by local sources and mythology has been the underpinning of modern ecology writing.
Human Influence
As the shattering would continue, the people of the Xeri river plains would attempt to fight back against the shattering. The initial response would be the building of new irrigation to save what little rainfall remained. When those measures failed, the people of the Xeri river plains would begin to pull more and more water from the rivers of the valley. This would cause the disaster to compound. As more and more water would begin to get pulled from the rivers, there would be less water to support the local ecosystem of the plains. This would compound pre existing migration of species from the plains, as local grasses would no longer be able to support the populations that had lived on the plains before. The increased water diverted towards agriculture was also on the verge of causing a water shortage had the people of the plains not begin to emigrate.
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