Eruption of Trevigusa

Perhaps the single deadliest and most destructive event of the Spiritmeld. The entire island was destroyed in the eruption, forever changing the face of the Ignisien Isles.

Like across most of the region of Ignei, the volcanic island of Trevigusa had been experiencing a number of tremors and minor eruptions for some time, slowly increasing in frequency and intensity over two hundred years. Around 8 Era of Man, the eruptions ceased but the tremors continued. A large, rounded bulge started forming on Trevigusa's north eastern slope, a few hundred metres from the crater at the summit.
On the Winter Solstice, 1st Sonra's Sleep 1 Era of Spirits by the modern calendar, the volcanic island suddenly erupted in a violent explosion. It is believed by most to have been caused by the Spiritmeld, but the eruption of Trevigusa may in reality be purely coincidental. Many in Ignei believe that Terminus in the sky at the moment of eruption, but this has been disputed.
Eyewitness and contemporary records state that a large explosion tore apart the bulge on Trevigusa's north eastern slope, so loud it was heard two thousand miles away. Hot clouds of ash and rock cascaded down all sides of the volcano, incinerating and pulverizing all in it's path. A great plume of ash and rock was ejected a hundred miles high into the air, it's shadow plunging day into night. Lightning flashed in the cloud, illuminated from below by the orange glow of great rivers of fire. Bombs of lava were propelled far from Trevigusa in wide arcs, crashing into the sea and nearby islands many miles from their origin point, littering the sea with pumice.
Fire and ash continued to spew forth for a day and night, before dwindling and sputtering out. The entire island collapsed inwards into the sea, forming a wide caldera with a ring of smaller islands marking part of the circumference. These islands are the only remnant of the event today.
The collapse triggered a tsunami, a great wall of water of catastrophic proportions that devastated the coastlines of the Ignisien Isles and the northern Ignisien Peninsula. The combined death toll of the earthquakes, pyroclastic flows, pumice bombardment of neighboring islands, and the tsunami are estimated to be in the hundreds of thousands, though records are scarce, and the numbers are likely exaggerated.

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Natural