The Cracking of Hope

Disaster / Destruction

In the depths of the city Polare, sits a crystal infused with Starrite. Tended to by the highest archons of the Magisterium Magicum, it is said the incantations they spoke promoted a sense of peace and hope throughout the Ashen lands. One may even say that the entirety of the Grand age, its great legends, heroes, and even villains, all originated through the power and emanations of this Hope Crystal. Yet, in 802 AR, the nighthuman plague, now allied with gnomish raid parties, arrived at the steps of Polare. No hero, legend, or knight could stop the breach of the horde, and in the winter of 802 AR Polare fell. And with it, the Hope Crystal cracked. The pulses of magic energy that poured out were deeper and darker than any night the Ashen Lands had seen. The peoples felt a despair no nighthuman or gnome could inflict.     It was with the Cracking of Hope, that the Grand Age ended. And so came the Broken Age.