Enlightenment

The Enlightenment--called the Shattering, Solortus, the Fall, or the Scorching--was an event that ended the Relict Age and brought about the Young World roughly in its current state. This event was primarily caused by the toppling of the Tower of Ubrem.

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Many things happened as a consequence of the Tower of Ubrem falling. First, Hrememun and Ork'luso did not survive the fall; they died upon hitting the ground. Second, the tower broke a hole in the firmament as it fell. This opened up a way to Celestium of the Monumidium, and blindingly divine light poured out of this hole, along with many other shards of Asterite that fell upon places such as Mount Uchioku, near the Arizathrans, among the Juhsen Ranges below Monia, and many other locations lost to time. The divine light spread across Ebdypha and burned away the clouds and upper layers of the Old Sea. The waters fell so heavily over a short period that it carried minerals from all the newly exposed lands back into the oceans and formed the New Sea, which was salty, and which pushed down what remained of the fresh waters of the Old Seas below Ebdypha itself.
When humans beheld the divine light, known today as the sun, they saw the light of the Monumidium, and in them something changed. The consciousness within them truly flared, and it saw things not only as they were but as they could be, and they developed willpower. Even other non-human things, like the Ithoids, became aware of themselves on seeing the divine light. Rather than becoming enlightened, the Eah had lost their immunity to the immense power of the Monumidium's light, and Mirvahadh, Cuuhuina, and Ashurnuq all perished when struck by the divine beams. Additionally, there are scars in the Firmament that linger to the present day: The sky around the Thousand Towers region is constantly ravaged by broiling thunderstorms, and a persistent scar of lights is ever visible in the sky regardless of time of day and in some parts of the world where the Monumidium shines through in bold, blazing rays of divine light, even during the night. These scars are known as Monuments.