Cyclone at Cryhton, the Vashari disappearance

At the beginning of the Fourth Era, the Vashari people inhabited the shores of Cryhton. The Vashari were a subethnicity of Belagoe people who preferred the open plains of northern Belor Daeg than the heavy jungles and forests of eastern Cryhton and Hezhz. They made their living as agriculturalists and cultivated the flatlands. For a few generations they thrived, trading their supplies back to their Calishite neighbors.

Good fortune ran out when the rains did not come, and their diverted channels dried up. Panicked, they moved closer to the ocean, thinking they could rebuild and rebrand themselves as merchants and seafarers. Two years into this endeavor, the waters receded a hundred feet from the shore. Perplexed, the people all crowded the shore. A lookout spotted the clouds first, and in less than an hour a storm wall rushed to them.

The storm started as fast moving clouds that spat rain on them. Annoyed, most Vashari went indoors. Some moved their boats to the dark gray waters until waves pushed them back. Several hours passed as waves brought the water back to the shore, but they didn't stop. While people panicked and gathered their things, the actual storm hit. In their confusion, the Vashari didn't see the fast moving clouds descending like a howling demon on them until it was too late. The winds picked up the ships in the harbor and tossed aside sturdy, stone houses.

For hours the storm battered the towns along the coasts and moved further into Cryhton. When the storm passed completely through, not a single Vashari soul lived. After a week, Calishite ships trawled the waters and found an armada of Vashari ships sunk and burst with holes. Bloated bodies of villagers were found as far away as the Cursed Badlands of Enor Daeg and the Gold Coast of Sefir Daeg. The tragedy became known as the Cyclone at Crhyton, and is considered the worst natural disaster of recent memory that is heavily recorded.

Type

Natural