The Sundering

occurred_at

• →Vallen's Barrow — The god was broken where the barrow now stands.
• →Caer Vallen — The Sundering broke here, in the Imperium's shattered seat.
• ←The Shore Arrival — The Shore Arrival is a consequence of the Sundering — something drawn to the coast by the cataclysm.
• ←The Sundering Scar — The Sundering Scar is the physical record of where the Sundering first cracked the ground — the fault-head of the Marrowgorge, glassy-fused by whatever heat the break let loose.

references

• ←The Wright's Shard — The shard is what the Sundering left behind.
• ←The Barrow Prophecy — The prophecy remembers the Sundering.
• ←Barrow Wight — Risen from the day the god broke.
• ←The Drowned Shrine — Its altar predates the Sundering and remembers what came before.
• ←The Karth Deep — Something older than the wights of the Sundering keeps the cold here.
• ←The Weeping Vault — What weeps behind the door has wept since the Imperium fell.
• ←Taras Mournwright — He believes the barrow predates the Sundering, which the tribes find offensive.
• ←Hollow Warden — It wears the sigil of the dead empire that broke with the god.
• ←Bone Saint — It prays in a dead language that shares root-sounds with the barrow threshold inscription.
• ←Vallen Revenant — They died in the hour the Sundering took the Imperium and rose owing the same oath.
• ←Vallen Sentinel — It was walking its route when the god broke and simply kept walking.
• ←Shard-Haunt — The Sundering tore the door they came through and never shut it.
• ←Vault-Weeper — It has wept since the Imperium fell, and the Sundering let it in.
• ←The First Fork — Older than the College, from when Vallen fell — by some accounts the first tool used to hear an echo on purpose.
• ←Imperator's Word — A blow begun the instant the Sundering broke the city, and in the blade's echo never quite finished falling.
• ←The Last Census of Vallen — Names every vault and tribute the Sundering swallowed and the centuries forgot.
• ←Ancelot, the Ancient Cross of War — Ancelot is what was left of the Third's worship after the gods went silent at the Sundering — a cross soldiers carried for a thousand years and never admitted what they carried.
• ←What the Writ Records — On the Settling of the Vale — An account of the Sundering that denies it was a breaking at all.
• →The Sworn Gods — The Sundering was the breaking of Vallen the Forge-Singer, one of the Sworn Gods.
• ←Only the Bill — Denies the Sundering happened at all.
• ←The Vale That Broke — The legend IS the Sundering, told as the Vale tells it to its children — the day the world's maker broke and never stopped grieving.
• ←The Imperial Reach — The sealing-order at the Imperial Reach was issued in the years following the Sundering — the Imperium quartered its legion here while dealing with the Vault.
• ←The Drowned Larach — The Larach is a Vallen Imperium wayshrine — a relic of the world the Sundering shattered.
• ←Mournwright's Concordance — The Concordance documents the physical evidence of the Sundering in Caer Vallen's stone — the cracks, the fused joints, the asymmetric conduit damage — as architectural notation.
• ←The Drowned Course — The aqueduct collapsed in the same hour as the Sundering — its current flooded state is the Sundering's doing.
• ←The Shut Reliquary — The Sundering fault runs through the Shut Reliquary's dais — the vault was cracked by the same event that shattered the Imperium's echo-architecture across the Vale.
• ←The Sundered Crown — Cracked clean through at the instant the Sundering broke Vallen's emperor and his god.
• ←Imperator's Word — A blow begun at the instant of the Sundering and, in the echo set into the steel, never finished falling.
• ←The Last Census of Vallen — Tallied the year before the Sundering — the last accounting of everything a god-empire owned.

caused

• →The Unclosed — The break left the Vale ringing; everything that lingers as an echo is the long tail of that one catastrophe.
• ←The Drawing-Down — The breaking of the choir chord IS the Sundering, told from the inside.
• ←Racial Sentiments — The Sundering's Social Legacy — The current inter-racial sentiment matrix is the social legacy of the Sundering — each people processing the same event through their own cosmology, with asymmetric knowledge.
• ←The Weeping Vault — The Weeping Vault was sealed in the aftermath of the Sundering — the Imperium and Temple acted together because something from the Sundering's tear needed containing.
• →The Relief-Column Field — The Sundering froze the relief column on the saddle — the moment the god broke is why the dead above have waited so long.
• ←The Saltglass Vault — The Sundering cracked the basin floor and flooded the vault with the brine that formed the salt-glass.

participated_in

• ←The Riven King — He is the unnamed hand in the Imperium binding that became the Sundering.
• ←Corren the Last — He came to witness the binding-rite that unmade the god instead.

explains

• ←The Five Elements — The Sundering broke the Aether→Fire hinge (Vallen was Fire's divine embodiment). The Ruin cycle jammed at Earth. The echoes are Air that cannot rise; the barrow-dead are Earth waiting for a Fire that is gone.

severed_by

• ←Humankind — The Sundering killed Vallen — the god who made humankind. The fashioned race's only divine bond was cut at its death. Humans now wander without the maker who built the roads they follow.

foreshadows

• →The Stilling of the First Working — The break left the echoes that tuning would one day learn to hold.
• →The Waking of the Seat — The seat that broke in the first age stirs awake in this one.