THE CHRONICLE · THE RAMPART FOOTHILLS
The Drawing-Down
The true, hidden cause of the Sundering: not a broken working but a theft. The elder Vyr of Aelvyrenn, with Athra's art, built a great engine to draw on the god Vallen's own strength and lift their cities into the sky. The draw went too deep. It cracked him, and the Vale has been failing by inches ever since.
The Vale's histories say only that the Imperium 'came east to bind its god closer and instead unmade him.' They do not say how, or by whose hand, because the hand survived and has kept its silence in the sky for four hundred years. The how was an engine, not a working of faith: Vallen the Wright could be reached only through what his own people had raised in his name, and only the elder Vyr, with Athra the Endless Design's art, had the craft to build the machinery that reached him. The Riven King directed it. Whether the god was already failing, whether the engine was greed dressed as rescue, or whether the draw simply outran what any maker can survive, the engine did not bind him closer — it drank him, the way a town taps a spring until the spring gives out. The Vyr fled upward in horror and guilt, raised Aelvyrenn out of reach, and never told the peoples below what they had done — so the rest of the Vale grieves a catastrophe the people who caused it watch from above, and calls the cause a mystery.
KIND
myth
WHEN
the hour of the Sundering, at the fall of the Vallen Imperium
LOCATION
Caer Vallen
SECRET
yes
Connected
Type Fields
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references
- ←Aelvyrenn — The city was raised out of reach in horror and guilt after the breaking.
- →The Sworn Gods — The chord was sung at Vallen the Forge-Singer, who could be reached only in his own language of song.
- →The Old Reckonings — The Drawing-Down is the real event the Old Reckonings' doctrine was built to explain without ever naming it — a wound in the world's maker that the tidy five-element wheel could never quite account for.
- ←Aelvyrenn — Aelvyrenn was raised out of reach in the aftermath — the Vyr fled upward in horror at what they had done and have watched the grieving Vale from above for four hundred years.
- ←The Fair Copy — The Fair Copy is the redo of the breaking — the failure it means to correct by starting the whole world over without the blot.
caused
- ←The Riven King — His voice led the choir-working that shattered the god — the act he has heard, unbroken, ever since.
- →The Sundering — The breaking of the choir chord IS the Sundering, told from the inside.
- →The Sundering — The breaking of the choir-working is the true, hidden cause of the Sundering: the Vyr came to bind the failing god and unmade him instead.
occurred_at
- →Caer Vallen — The working was raised at Vallen seat, where the god broke.
- →Caer Vallen — The working was raised at Caer Vallen and broke there — the same hour and seat where the Wright's Shard was later raised and shattered.
foreshadows
- →The Wanderer — When the chord broke and the heavens went silent, the eldest Vyr turned from calling the gods DOWN in song to drawing their whole house NEAR by craft.
participated_in
- ←Vallen, the Wright — Vallen the Forge-Singer was the god the choir reached for — and the one who shattered on the single wrong note when the chord broke rather than bound.
- ←The Riven King — Maelvyr led the choir-working — his was the voice meant to hold the god together, and the chord broke under it. He has rung with that mistake un-aging for four centuries.
- ←The Hanging Choir — The Hanging Choir is what remains of the singers who raised that working — the people who broke the god, who fled upward in guilt and have kept the silence since.
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