Introduction

"Nature hath altogether taken away certaine Lands: and first and formost where as now the sea Corallis is, it
was sometime the Continent for a mightie space of ground. The very earth hath devoured and split her selfe:
Thus, she disjoyned Haeres Balteus, Lycia and Myro Lanarius, and from all those three, Boreamontes and
Assarida, as if the very stronds and Continent were not to be trusted, but they also must worke hurt and
mischiefe."

– Marcella I, Naturalis Historiae, Liber II, XCI

The Sundering of Asterra was a cataclysmic event of unclear cause and circumstance on Nave which saw the supercontinent of Asterra torn apart, and even caused a sizeable portion of the planet sink into the sea. The event marked the end of the Shinarian Civilization on what is now Sidoia and potentially also the Sith Pari Civilization on Sarducaa.

Urmothâr—or as the Tindremenes call it, Lykia—in the south-east, Sidoia in the south-west, Sarducaa in the west, and Nordveld in the north-west fell apart from Myrland, as the tectonic plates of the southern hemisphere sunk several hundred meters into the ocean. Sidoia itself perhaps fared the worst, with most of its former landmass dragged under the waves.

This left behind a massive landmass fault and an enormous waterfall—hundreds of meters steep—between the Inner Sea in the north and the Coral Sea in the south, called Tecton's Fault. As it previously rested on top of what became Tecton's Fault, the massive land bridge between Myrland and Nordveld was reduced to but an island.

Shinarian records and artifacts both prior and contemporary to The Sundering are extremely rare and highly coveted by the self-described descendants of the Shinarian Civilization—the Tindremenes—and a former slave race of Shinaria—the Sidoians.

Similarly, the Yequedah Magi of Sarducaa—while not likely descendants of the Sith Pari—covet and hoard all knowledge and records involving them on the continent. These records supposedly stretch back as far as The Sundering itself, and it has been speculated that the foundation of modern Spiritist practices is owed to them as well.

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