Racial Sentiments — The Sundering's Social Legacy

How the seven peoples feel toward one another, shaped by the Sundering and its centuries of aftermath. The Sundering did not create racial tension — it crystallized existing relations into the specific shape they now hold, and layered them with grief, guilt, and knowledge distributed unevenly.

The Sundering is the event from which the current social world is downstream. Before it, the Vallen Imperium had imposed a rough unity of hierarchy on the Vale — not peace, but structure. After it, the structure dissolved and each people was left to process what had happened with the resources their own cosmology gave them. Those resources were not equal. The Vyr had the most knowledge and chose silence. The Asheni had the most grief and expressed it. The other peoples read the available evidence through their own elemental nature and arrived at their own accounts — accounts that differ in framing but converge, with unsettling consistency, on the conclusion the Vyr are trying to prevent from becoming common knowledge.