Post by Jurgen "b1rd0fpr3y" D. L. on Mar 9, 2009 0:12:55 GMT 1
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1479 DR
history
THE SPELLPLAGUE
In the Year of Blue Fire (1385 DR), a magical disaster
called the Spellplague changed the face of Toril, its
lost sibling Abeir, and even the planes themselves.
Flesh, stone, magic, space, and perhaps even the flow
of time were infected and changed.
Most scholars believe that the Spellplague was
the direct result of the murder of the goddess Mystra
at the hands of Cyric, which Shar engineered. This
popular theory holds that magic was bound so long in
Mystra’s Weave that, when the goddess died, it spontaneously
and ruinously burst its bonds. Areas of wild
magic, already outside the constraints of the Weave,
touched off first, but the plague raged on and on in
ever-widening spirals, devastating some places and
leaving others untouched. It even tore through the
realms of demons, gods, and lost souls before the end.
Ancient realms that had passed beyond easy reach
of the world were pulled back, such as the Feywild
(called Faerie in ancient days). The Abyss, home of
demons, fell through the planes, unleashing swarming
evil before finding its new home at the bottom of
the Elemental Chaos. Even the long-forgotten sibling
world Abeir burned in the plague of magic, despite
having been cut off from Toril for tens of millennia.
Portions of Abeir’s landscape were transposed
with areas of Toril in the disaster. Such landscapes
included their living populations, bringing realms
such as Akanûl and Tymanther to Faerûn’s face.
Across the Trackless Sea, an entire continent of the
lost world reappeared.
The Spellplague was a potent agent of change, but
it also set off a whole string of secondary catastrophes.
1479 DR
history
THE SPELLPLAGUE
In the Year of Blue Fire (1385 DR), a magical disaster
called the Spellplague changed the face of Toril, its
lost sibling Abeir, and even the planes themselves.
Flesh, stone, magic, space, and perhaps even the flow
of time were infected and changed.
Most scholars believe that the Spellplague was
the direct result of the murder of the goddess Mystra
at the hands of Cyric, which Shar engineered. This
popular theory holds that magic was bound so long in
Mystra’s Weave that, when the goddess died, it spontaneously
and ruinously burst its bonds. Areas of wild
magic, already outside the constraints of the Weave,
touched off first, but the plague raged on and on in
ever-widening spirals, devastating some places and
leaving others untouched. It even tore through the
realms of demons, gods, and lost souls before the end.
Ancient realms that had passed beyond easy reach
of the world were pulled back, such as the Feywild
(called Faerie in ancient days). The Abyss, home of
demons, fell through the planes, unleashing swarming
evil before finding its new home at the bottom of
the Elemental Chaos. Even the long-forgotten sibling
world Abeir burned in the plague of magic, despite
having been cut off from Toril for tens of millennia.
Portions of Abeir’s landscape were transposed
with areas of Toril in the disaster. Such landscapes
included their living populations, bringing realms
such as Akanûl and Tymanther to Faerûn’s face.
Across the Trackless Sea, an entire continent of the
lost world reappeared.
The Spellplague was a potent agent of change, but
it also set off a whole string of secondary catastrophes.