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| - As a result of the explosion which rippled through both hyperspace and realspace, a transdimensional tear in space-time "flipped" a portion of the Charr Ontee populace into the parallel galactic realm of Otherspace, stranding them where they ultimately evolved into the Charon. The location of the Great Collapse was within orbit of the world of Kathol, and served as the focal point for a second event horizon that penetrated between realspace and Otherspace, known as the Hellmouth.
- The eight High Houses of the humans and their daevi slavedrivers form a last alliance against their masters and destroy their source of power and magic: the Altar of the Undying. Yet, the cost of freedom is high: destroying the Altar also destroys the world itself and throws its various pieces into a swirling sea of untapped magic: the Deadspell Storm.
- The Great Collapse (大崩壊, daihoukai) is a catastrophic event affecting the entire continent of Zemuria that led to the destruction of the advanced civilization of Zemuria and plunged survivors into a dark age of ruin. The event marks the end of the Pre-Septian Calendar and the start of the Septian Calendar. The Congregation of the Sacrements of the Septian Church is tasked with the retrieval of artifacts, orbal relics from before the Great Collapse, on which the post-Orbal Revolution orbal technology is based. However, the development of orbal arts were far superior before the Great Collapse.
- The Great Collapse (also known in various regions as the Great Devastation, the Semi-Apocalypse, and the Great Cataclysm) was a dramatic, worldwide economic and political breakdown beginning in some nations as early as 24 December 2005. The beginning of the Great Collapse in the United States, European Union, Russia, China, India, Australia, and Japan is associated with the the worldwide terrorist nuclear attacks on 29 December 2005, known as Nuclear Thursday. The destruction of the major cities caused a complete breakdown (or utter annihilation) of the governments and economies of the targeted nations. International trade worldwide almost immediately ceased, and the economies of every nation collapsed soon thereafter, beginning the Second Great Depression. As starvation spread around the
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| - The Great Collapse (also known in various regions as the Great Devastation, the Semi-Apocalypse, and the Great Cataclysm) was a dramatic, worldwide economic and political breakdown beginning in some nations as early as 24 December 2005. The beginning of the Great Collapse in the United States, European Union, Russia, China, India, Australia, and Japan is associated with the the worldwide terrorist nuclear attacks on 29 December 2005, known as Nuclear Thursday. The destruction of the major cities caused a complete breakdown (or utter annihilation) of the governments and economies of the targeted nations. International trade worldwide almost immediately ceased, and the economies of every nation collapsed soon thereafter, beginning the Second Great Depression. As starvation spread around the globe, riots erupted in most surviving cities, and small wars (civil and international) broke out in various areas of the world. The second wave of nuclear attacks on 6 January 2006, known as Nuclear Friday, marked the end of any semblance of surviving order or national structure from before the Great Collapse. The Great Collapse ended at different times in different areas of the world. The majority of pre-Collapse countries have been replaced by a multitude of smaller local or regional states. Liberal democracy was weakened, if not completely replaced in some regions, and on the defensive, as dictatorships, monarchies, and military juntas arose, and many areas exist in a state of anarchy.
- The Great Collapse (大崩壊, daihoukai) is a catastrophic event affecting the entire continent of Zemuria that led to the destruction of the advanced civilization of Zemuria and plunged survivors into a dark age of ruin. The event marks the end of the Pre-Septian Calendar and the start of the Septian Calendar. The Congregation of the Sacrements of the Septian Church is tasked with the retrieval of artifacts, orbal relics from before the Great Collapse, on which the post-Orbal Revolution orbal technology is based. However, the development of orbal arts were far superior before the Great Collapse. Among the ancient dragons that lived before the Great Collapse, only Ragnard is known to have survived into the Septian Calendar era.
- As a result of the explosion which rippled through both hyperspace and realspace, a transdimensional tear in space-time "flipped" a portion of the Charr Ontee populace into the parallel galactic realm of Otherspace, stranding them where they ultimately evolved into the Charon. The location of the Great Collapse was within orbit of the world of Kathol, and served as the focal point for a second event horizon that penetrated between realspace and Otherspace, known as the Hellmouth.
- The eight High Houses of the humans and their daevi slavedrivers form a last alliance against their masters and destroy their source of power and magic: the Altar of the Undying. Yet, the cost of freedom is high: destroying the Altar also destroys the world itself and throws its various pieces into a swirling sea of untapped magic: the Deadspell Storm.
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