Before The Sundering, long Before the War of Gods & Fools, far far Before the Age of Wonders, the Etherium was already Old. Countless Civilizations across it had risen and fallen and eons had passed before the great, great, grandparents of the eldest of the Survivors of the Sundering had even been born. As is the case with things of the past some of those things still existed at The Sundering and some those still exist today.