The Fall
Military Conflict
| May 19, 2025
"The end of everything, and the start of something worse."
"Everything, gone. Progress, people, gone forever..." -Journal of Derrig Jacobs, Smallfolk Scout.
The Fall stands as the catastrophic turning point in Gaiatia’s history, the harbinger of the Great Schism and the end of the Lost Ages. It began with the destruction of Xaethra, the eldritch embodiment of greed, jealousy, lust, and unrestrained self-indulgence. Taking the form of a monstrous dragon golem, Xaethra’s essence had been bound by her champion, Vile, within this towering vessel to lead her seemingly soon-to-be victorious armies in their final conquest of Gaiatia. During the final, desperate battle of her invasion, Xaethra’s vessel was rendered lifeless high above the clouds following a trecherous act from Vile, sacrificing his entire army through magick means in a ritual attempting to absorb her Godly power for his own, unwilling to play second fiddle to the Goddess any longer; Resulting only in fusing the two's souls in a horrific amalgamation before banishing them from our world. The golem vessel remained however, and fell from the heavens unleashing a cataclysm untold. The impact shattered the land itself, birthing earthquakes, tidal waves, and fiery eruptions that consumed entire kingdoms. What little already remained of cities following the invasion were reduced to molten craters, rivers overflowed with blood and ash, and the sky blackened under the weight of choking smoke to this day. The devastation was absolute. Entire nations vanished overnight, countless species were annihilated, and survivors faced a desolate, hostile world. With no infrastructure, dwindling resources, and the collapse of law and order, the remnants of society descended into chaos, a Great Schism that would reshape the globe. The Fall was not just an event but an extinction-level calamity that echoed Xaethra’s insatiable hunger for domination. Its legacy despair—total destriuction of our world and nothing gained by the demons who caused it, a war waged for nothing, a harrowing prelude to the century of bloodshed that followed.