Day of Mourning
"A sound that I can only describe as thousands of glass windows shattering all in unison erupted from behind me, momentarily drawing everyone's attention. The warforged unit assaulting us all looked up at the sky in amazement, the conflagration that had erupted in the clouds reflected in their eyes.
Towards Making, a towering light reached for the sky before dispersing outwards in a way that reminded me very much of a mushroom. Gigantic shards of what seemed to be glass erupted from the ground in all angles, shattering each other as they fought for the limited space, and we could already feel the trembles in the ground despite being over 200 miles away from the epicenter of the blast.
The shockwave reached us, taking everyone off of their feet. The air was hot and scorched our lungs, but the terrain seemed to shield us from the worst of the blast. A curtain of dense grey fog was rapidly spreading from the strange storm of glass in a pyroclastic-like flow that easily rivaled the raw power of a volcanic eruption, but with nothing natural about it." - Eye witness testimony of the Day of Mourning.
20 Olarune 994 YK, the Day of Mourning, marked more than the beginning of the end of the Last War, it was the end of a nation. On that day the nation of Cyre was destroyed in a holocaust of fire and magic.
In what is now known as the Field of Ruins in southwestern Cyre, the combined forces of the Brelish military, led by Princess Borann, and Thrane armies, led by Bishop-Militant Grodan, a close friend and adviser of High Cardinal Krozen, joined by pact, were attacking a much smaller Cyran force. The Cyrans had just been reinforced, after having cleverly used tireless warforged units for days to convince their opponents that they possessed greater numbers, but were still outnumbered 3-1.
Karrn attackers were moving through Cyre to the north, in a retaliatory strike for the recent Cyran attack on Atur, Karrnath, near the Ashen Spires.
However bad things might have looked for the Cyrans, no one could have imagined the devastation in store. And the invading armies were not spared. The skies are said to have burned so brightly that soldiers at Angwar Keep in Thrane were blinded. In the end, virtually everyone within the borders of what is now the Mournland perished.
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