The Black Tide

The history of the Antediluvians has always been a matter for conjecture and legend. What happened to this great race and caused the The Great Deluge is not known and likely never will be.
However, there is a myth that supposedly explains this world-shaping event.
The great scientists of the Antediluvians explored the land, both above the waves and below them. On one expedition they found something most unusual; a remnant of the core of the world on which they lived.
The item was a large black pearl. Perfectly spherical, astonishingly smooth and beautiful to look at, the pearl almost glowed with a dark sheen. It was a Pearl of Putrescence, an ancient and terrible cursed artefact left behind from the wars of the gods.
Upon being exposed to the Pearl of Putrescence the Antediluvian explorers began to change and mutate. They became hideous and powerful demonic monstrosities that only wanted to slay and feed; feral and ravenous things.
They turned on one another, and as they did so the dark power began to spread through their people like a virus. It did not matter how mighty or puissant each individual was - once they fell under the sway of the Black Tide they were doomed, and became terrible creatures of darkness.
The last of the Antediluvians, trapped in a high tower, looked down and saw that their race was doomed. What had been a place of wonder and beauty and knowledge was now a world full of monsters.
They did the only thing they could, even though it would mean the end of their race and the destruction of their cities. Using the last of their powers they cast a great magic, and raised the ocean itself up in a flood that would engulf the world and all on the dry lands, wiping out their mutated brothers and sisters.
And so the world fell under the The Great Deluge  and the Black Tide was defeated at great cost.
Some say however, that not all the feral Antediluvians were slain, and that the monsters that prowl the The Known World today are the descendants of these terrible creatures.

Related Event

The Great Deluge

Related Species

• Antediluvians