The Great Sorrow
General
The Great Sorrow was a cataclysmic and traumatic time-period that began with the disappearance of Architect and the release of the Amnesia Pulse. When it eventually ended, Vael'Eteria had entered a new and terrifying chapter. One with never-before-seen dangers and possibilities.
A time of death and destruction
The Great Sorrow saw the Fabric of Reality being scorched, ripped apart, corrupted, or alternatively completely annihilated. It saw the demise of those who thought themselves eternal and broke those who were considered unbreakable. Realms that had lasted for eons were either entirely annihilated or saw destruction never before witnessed.
Lives Lost and Broken
Untold lives were lost and a mere fraction remained of what had once been. The remaining ones were broken either physically or mentally, and saw themselves at the mercy of new unseen dangers; whether it was esoteric conditions, environmental cataclysms or void-cold entities.
The Sorrowful Ones
It also saw the dawn of creatures that by all accounts should not be. Inversions of that which had once been whole, and who sought to remodel existence into their own twisted image. At least those who were intelligent enough to think.
They spread sorrow wherever they wandered and onto whoever they influenced. In time, they all became known as the Sorrowful Ones.
Origin of Chaos
The one entity and individual who is seen as the main progenitor of the destruction and chaos during the Great Sorrow was the Daughter of Architect: Origin.
She unleashed the full might of Her power upon Alézun'Teran and saw to the personal end of several entities and realms; one being the destruction of Varldstan Yleneas, which was so thorough that Varldstan Cericor — its reincarnated form — still carries its scars.
It was only thanks to the actions of Guardian and countermeasures created by Architect prior to His disappearance, that Origin regained enough clarity to depart to Miand where certain circumstances made Her entomb Herself into a cocoon made out of primal Amethia.
Those who became Abscent
The Great Sorrow was difficult to experience for everyone. Something that is especially true for the Absenté: The Children of Origin. The actions of their mother shocked them to their very cores and in an attempt to stop Her they faced the wrath of chaos incarnate, before Guardian could intervene.
In the ensuing skirmish, they received deep metaphysical wounds that left them exposed to sorrowful forces; in order to combat this new threat, they were forced to Splinter themselves into smaller and more numerous incarnations of themselves: The Faceless Constants. The Gentle Shadow
The perpetrators
The Maiteros
While some may argue that it is Architect or Origin who is to be blamed for the Great Sorrow, it was in truth the result of the actions preformed by a select few Dhavians who have became known as the Maiteros. They vilefully influenced a traumatized Origin with metaphysical and subconscious commands that sent Her into a berserk like trance.
A majority of them have thus far been slain by Guardian and have had their essences imprisoned in the Mountains of Detincar. But some are still walking about, and still trying to reshape Alézun'Teran into something more chaotic and strange.
The Iseate
But the Iseate are the ones who are the true architects behind the Great Sorrow. Entities that once were but now are not, they reside in the Void Shorewaters. They crave the Light of Existence but also shuns it as it causes the Darkness of Nonexistence to retreat. They share the qualities of both but does not truly belong in either. Not any longer, at least.
And they absolutely abhor Architect who punished them for actions that have either been long-since forgotten or are not spoken about. And they saw their opportunity for revenge when Architect vanished, and slowly began to influence a select few of the Dhavians. The rest is but history.
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