The Ending Winter (冬の終わり Fuyu no Owari lit. End Winter) was a calamity caused by the combined powers of the Legendary Weapons of Elibe. The Eight Heroes used the weapons against the dragons in The Scouring, only to find that the power of the weapons was so great, that the laws of physics were horribly distorted. For nature to correct this imbalance, the Ending Winter occurred. The Ending Winter sapped much of the potential magic energy out of the universe, and both dragons and the legendary weapons lost much of their power as a result.