The Fracturing

Summary

During the Age of Mysticism, the Awakened Gods walked amongst their children. The Trisar were the most successful of the children of the Gods. They had created many cities, the most grand of which being, Krennica. This was the crowning achievement of the Trisar. The children of the Gods called this place their home, and Krennica would become the capitol of the continent. The Trisar, Elves, Dwarves, and all the other children of the Gods flocked to Krennica to see the beauty that the Trisar created. Here the children used their magics given to them by the Gods and enjoyed the Gods company. Telling stories about the Gods and their achievements. The Gods loved hearing their children tell stories about them.
However, like all things, The Age of Mysticism came to an end. Except it's end came with destruction and death. The Gods that did not help during the Elemental Wars wanted to recreate the world in their image and they banded together to destroy it. Led by The Shadow, the Gods assaulted Valandria. These Gods would then forever be known as The Fractured. The Fracturing lasted for a total of twenty days. 
The Fractured Gods tore through the sky, which was enveloped in complete darkness, a move performed by The Shadow to keep his forces bolstered. The land now known as Pregona suffered the most during The Fracturing and not many of their cities and population survived the initial onslaught from The Destroyer. The Destroyer was the first Fractured to make landfall on Valandria. Once The Destroyer was finished with his assault on Pregona, he joined up with The Lord of the Hells to assault Venn together. They planned to attack the continent on both sides and eventually converge on Krennica to end the Awakened and their children forever. The Allmagic prevented The Destroyer from ever reaching Venn by keeping him at bay with his divine arcane magics. The Lord of Hells however had other plans of his own. He tricked The Knowing into believing that he was on the Awakened's side and ultimately betrayed her. The Lord of Hells mortally wounded The Knowing, which made her retreat to her own plane of existence and to this day has never recovered from the wound. The Lord of Hells did not predict that The Changebearer would attempt to attack him in such close range to Krennica. But, she did and was able to drive back The Lord of Hells. 
The survivors of these battles retreated to Krennica to make their final defense. A great majority of the cities remaining were abandoned, destroyed, or lost to time. The dwarves who built their cities underground thought they would be safe from the invading Fractured. They were very wrong when the Spider Queen arrived and began capturing the dwarves and transforming them into twisted versions of themselves. The dwarves fled to Krennica to escape from the Spider Queen, while others who were more battle hungry fought until the bitter end. 
The elves abandoned their great cities and fled to Krennica to make their final stand with other remaining forces of the Awakened Army. The Awakened attempted to save the elven city by using their power to keep them functional as bases of operations for the Awakened Army. However, the Fractured assaulted them and the Awakened were forced to abandon them. 
With the Awakened Gods preoccupied with other Fractured during this time, Krennica was left ultimately defenseless other then the Awakened Army. They were no match for a combined assault from the Fractured, so they devised a plan to draw attention away from Krennica and battle the Fractured away from Krennica. Without the help of the Awakened, the last remaining forces of the Awakened Army began fortifying Krennica for an eventual assault.
None of the Awakened predicted that Krennica would be assaulted in a head on assault due to it's defenses. Unfortunately, The Dragon Queen broke through those defenses and began attacking the Great City itself. The Siege of Krennica lasted for five, long days. The defenses of The Great City were nearly destroyed on the final day of the siege. The Dragon Queen herself broke the defenses of the Great City and wanted to destroy the city itself once and for all. All six of her chromatic heads began charging their associating beams of energy. Flame, acid, frost, force, poison, and lightning. She brought all six of her heads up to the very top of Krennica tower where the six greatest wizards of the world were gathering their energy for one final ritual. These wizards were known as The Mythic Council. 
The Mythic Council used their combined strength to create a ritual to seal the power of the Dragon Queen into six stones. They only had one chance to seal her power away or else the world would be destroyed. The amount of energy that was being created on top of Krennica Tower and the power of The Dragon Queen, the spell was ready to be unleashed. A giant beam of red light erupted from the top of the tower. The light surrounded the Mythic Council and began spreading outward towards the Dragon Queen. She attempted to escape from the beam but was unable to. The beam enveloped the Dragon Queen and began separating her chromatic forms into six separate entities. The entities were than horrifyingly shrunken down and crushed into small stones representing which chromatic dragon they were. Ruby, emerald, diamond, onyx, amethyst, and sapphire. The stones rose into the sky piercing the Shadow's darkness and rocketed across the sky cleansing the darkness surrounding Valandria. 
The Awakened seized this opportunity and drove the Fractured back to their respective realms. Seeing the destruction that was caused because of them. The Awakened decided it was safer for their children if they sealed themselves away from their children. The Awakened were unanimous in their decision and created The Great Seal. This was a seal between the Material Plane and all of the other planes of existence. First they sealed away the Fractured beyond the Great Seal, so that they would never again be able to reap such destruction across the world. The Awakened then looked upon their children one last time in their physical forms and sealed themselves away beyond The Great Seal. This was known as "The Separation."
Because of the Awakened swift decision to end the Fractured threat, they were unable to help what happened immediately after the Mythic Council sealed away the Dragon Queen. The Mythic Council were completely vaporized after the completion of the spell and a large chunk of the tower was destroyed. The spell had unforeseen consequences to the world as the spell wiped out most of the Trisar. After the dust settled, it was noted that no more than fifty Trisar remained in the world after the spell went off. The rest of the Awakened's children seemed to be unaffected by the spell.

Spread

• The Fracturing is known to all inhabitants of Valandria.

Variations & Mutation

• There are no variations to this myth.

Cultural Reception

• This is ingrained in all of society as the creation of the many religions followed throughout the world.

In Literature

• Few texts remain documenting The Fracturing, but no one has seen any texts for Ages.

In Art

• Two things remain from The Fracturing
• The city of Krennica and the half destroyed Krennica Tower

Date of First Recording

Unknown

Date of Setting

The Age of Mysticism