Gilgurth (GILL gherth)

the World Eater

The asteroid that will be known as Gilgurth impacted Aldern in 1200pre-sc. All was devastated, and life was almost wiped from surface of the world. The survivors huddled in mountain caves, or around the Elder Tree when the sky turns dark with clouds of ash. The tree's Mantle absorbed the energy from the blast, shielding its region from the destruction.

While the event is better understood in the modern day, the people of the past shared stories of this and later impacts again and again. Though these retellings it shifted, becoming a tale of Gilgurth, the World Eater, a great dragon who came down from the heavens and burned the sky. His tail swept the sea and flooded the world.

The 1200pre-sc impact is not the first, or the last, of the Gilgurth impacts, it was simply the largest. Modern astronomers understanding that these events are caused by the Celestial Cycle of Uatu and Juva's orbiting each other. Aldern passes through a region of dust and rock in Alanspace known as the the Cloud. It is this passing in the Cycle that has come to be considered the point of one oe cycle and the beginning of the next.

The Gilgurth impact of 1200pre-sc was recorded as being much more spectacular and devastating in the prehistoric periods, with destruction, flooding and fires across the globe. While may only cause regional damage, or more commonly a worldwide lightshow in the sky, the 1200pre-sc event was world altering. As such it is the most well-known. In the modern Ages these events are little more than a yearlong meteor shower across the sky.