Histories of the Homeworld

The Great Worldquake

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	The timeline of the First Age cannot be accurately measured in its entirety.  The beginnings of our people have no definite documented point of origin.  Therefore, it is impossible to say exactly how long the First Age lasted.  

	Rather than start the timeline at some random number that would be the result of various estimates, the Aracoix have chosen to start the official recorded history, and hence the first official solstice cycle, at the time of our first documented occurrence, and perhaps one of our greatest tragedies.

	At some point in the First Age, when we still lived as duracoix, struggling to survive as heavy ones on the surface of the Homeworld, the small and relatively flat land masses that speckled the seas began to tremble against the might of the very world itself.  Until that time, the land and deep waters (where the terrors dwelled) had been separated by great lengths of shallow wetlands.  And though these wetlands had their own challenges and monstrosities, they in no way compared to the hideous creatures that lurked in the depths of the deep waters.  

	The beautiful plains and paradisiacal sunlands were uprooted from the very earth.  The whole of the Homeworld thrashed its waters about, over and under the lands of our ancestors.  The casualties must have been cataclysmic.  The old lands sunk into the waters, only to give rise to new lands of sharpened stone and deadened earth.  

	The great Worldquake had essentially destroyed whatever civilization our ancestors had built for themselves.  And even thought the survivors found refuge on the craggy remnants jutting forth from the vast ocean, the wetlands were gone, and now nothing stood between the terrors of the deep waters and the ruined survivors.  

	The struggle against the terrors would go on for until the end of the Age, and this is the reason that one alias for the First Age is known as “The Age of Terrors”.