The Astraleth create beasts, insects, and wonders beyond counting. Untouched by restraint, creation grows vast, ancient, and impossibly powerful.
The Pristara Era begins: Xantyr shows them how to make beasts and insects but they are unchecked and grow massive.
While shaping the northern reaches of Rhuna, Gahl discovers something buried beneath the frozen earth. Though small and seemingly harmless, the fractured stone carries a presence he recognizes all too well. Unwilling to reveal his discovery, he conceals it within the far north and tells no one of what he has found.
Creation spirals beyond control. Beasts grow colossal, landscapes merge together, and the Astraleth turn upon one another in the War of the Severed Threads.
As the War of the Severed Threads engulfs Rhuna, Gahl and Pahr unite to contain the influence of Kalthi and Ezhan. Flame and vision clash against harmony and abundance, and entire regions of the world are reshaped by their struggle. The scars of this conflict endure as some of Rhuna's greatest wonders—and its deepest wounds.
The wounds of the Astral Wars do not heal cleanly. Where Gahl's flames clashed against Ezhan's earthen-sands, it melted into the Slated Plains—a sea of dark glass stretched across the horizon. Beneath its fragile surface rest the caverns of Ezhan, while every sound carries for miles, as though the land still remembers the fury of its creators.
The War of the Severed Threads leaves its mark upon the grasslands of Kalthi. Where Gahl's fury collides with her endless fields, a vast forest erupts from the earth, twisting growth into an endless living maze. The Kalthir inherit this place as the Vahlwood—a realm of beauty, abundance, and secrets without end.
During the War of the Severed Threads, Kalthi discovers that Gahl has hidden one of Vel's Seed-Stones beneath the northern tundras. Their conflict shatters the land until Ezhan erupts the earth itself, burying the artifact beneath fire, stone, and ice. The resulting scar becomes the Halderin—a steaming wilderness where volcanoes and glaciers stand side by side.
As the War of the Severed Threads rages across Rhuna, Pahr retreats into visions of what the world might become. His journey leads him to one of Vel's fallen fangs, where the Green Thread of Guidance twists around an ancient wound in reality. There he becomes lost within his own dreams, and the dreams refuse to fade. They endure as Demuria—a realm of floating hourglass islands where memory, prophecy, and time flow together like shifting sands.
Near the buried Heart of Chaos, a surviving fragment of Vel feasts upon the fallen Pristara for ages beyond counting. From that corruption emerges Xal'Zhira, the Great Veldraken—the first and greatest of her kind. While beasts, divine warriors and Astraleth fight and fall above, she continues to feed in the darkness below.
Thousands of Zaltar descend to investigate the chaos below. Three of Zal's greatest champions are slain by primordial beasts, proving that creation has slipped beyond control.
Witnessing the devastation, the surviving Zaltar beg the Astraleth to abandon their war. For the first time, the creators imagine a world not of beasts—but of mortals.