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===The Cataclysm and the Wildering===

While all of this was occurring in distant Ithania, the statue of Estel within the Altalar capital vanished. Within mere hours, the Cataclysm suddenly burst across the world in what most Altalar describe to be the Scream of Estel. The actual sound was the remaining resonance from a magical shockwave originating in distant Drowda, the result of the Veil tearing. Unlike in previous Invasions, where the Void forces found themselves sucked back into their realm to wait again for the portals to reopen, now they were sent into a realm with shattered fragmentary portals while many Demons were themselves outright destroyed. The Veil was now forever damaged, leaking both [[Exist]] and Void power into the world. This event also served to trap the [[Archdemon]] in our world; unable to sustain his form, he entered into the body of an [[Ailor]] woman. Some Altalar associate this woman with the Kathar, [[Void Worship]] and the supposed treachery on the battlefield. In fact, she was merely a servant. As the sound of the Scream was finishing to echo across Aloria, two things occurred simultaneously. First, the world’s continents and landmasses quaked as tectonic plates, disturbed by magical forces, rubbed, smashed, and ground against each. This drove the seas to become turbulent, landmasses to sink into the sea, new ones to rise up, and menacing weather patterns to explode across the world. The major area this did not affect was the center of [[Corontium]] around the [[Regalian Archipelago]], which had long benefited from a lack of major regional fault lines or magical disturbances.

While all of this was occurring in distant Ithania, the statue of Estel within the Altalar capital vanished. Within mere hours, the Cataclysm suddenly burst across the world in what most Altalar describe to be the Scream of Estel. The actual sound was the remaining resonance from a magical shockwave originating in distant Drowda, the result of the Veil tearing. Unlike in previous Invasions, where the Void forces found themselves sucked back into their realm to wait again for the portals to reopen, now they were sent into a realm with shattered fragmentary portals while many Demons were themselves outright destroyed. The Veil was now forever damaged, leaking both [[Exist]] and Void power into the world. This event also served to trap the [[Archdemon]] in our world; unable to sustain his form, he entered into the body of an [[Ailor]] woman. Some Altalar associate this woman with the Kathar, [[Void Worship]] and the supposed treachery on the battlefield. In fact, she was merely a servant. As the sound of the Scream was finishing to echo across Aloria, two things occurred simultaneously. First, the world’s continents and landmasses quaked as tectonic plates, disturbed by magical forces, rubbed, smashed, and ground against each other. This drove the seas to become turbulent, landmasses to sink into the sea, new ones to rise up, and menacing weather patterns to explode across the world. The major area this did not affect was the center of [[Corontium]] around the [[Regalian Archipelago]], which had long benefited from a lack of major regional fault lines or magical disturbances.

The second event was the Wildering. To the Altalar, the Wildering serves as their great punishment from Estel and is almost all they focus on when discussing the Cataclysm. Unlike most other races of the world, who had to deal with a myriad of disasters, the Altalar largely had to contend with an explosion of nature. Trees erupted from the paved streets of Altalar cities, lashing out with thick roots and branches as, around them, nature reclaimed thousands of miles of urbanized territory. The Altalar capital, [[Alar Talea]], was struck by a sudden earthquake which collapsed hundreds of millennia-old structures on their aristocratic inhabitants before nature engulfed the area. Even living people were not safe from this event, as fleeing individuals reported to see their neighbors, children, friends, turning into plantlife before their very eyes. The only people to not suffer such a fate were the Yanar, who, while lovers of nature and themselves essentially living plants, claim the event came with a horrible and dark sound which terrified even them. The only cities to survive in some way intact were those on the exterior, the coastal trading cities located away from the heartland of what had once been jungles-turned urban cities-returned to jungles. As a result of all of this, the Altalar believe it was punishment for failing Estel and her Pantheon; she unleashed the event to return the world to how she had found it before leaving to one day return when the world was once again worthy to bear her presence.

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 ===The Cataclysm and the Wildering===
-While all of this was occurring in distant Ithania, the statue of Estel within the Altalar capital vanished. Within mere hours, the Cataclysm suddenly burst across the world in what most Altalar describe to be the Scream of Estel. The actual sound was the remaining resonance from a magical shockwave originating in distant Drowda, the result of the Veil tearing. Unlike in previous Invasions, where the Void forces found themselves sucked back into their realm to wait again for the portals to reopen, now they were sent into a realm with shattered fragmentary portals while many Demons were themselves outright destroyed. The Veil was now forever damaged, leaking both [[Exist]] and Void power into the world. This event also served to trap the [[Archdemon]] in our world; unable to sustain his form,  he entered into the body of an [[Ailor]] woman. Some Altalar associate this woman with the Kathar, [[Void Worship]] and the supposed treachery on the battlefield. In fact, she was merely a servant. As the sound of the Scream was finishing to echo across Aloria, two things occurred simultaneously. First, the world’s continents and landmasses quaked as tectonic plates, disturbed by magical forces, rubbed, smashed, and ground against each. This drove the seas to become turbulent, landmasses to sink into the sea, new ones to rise up, and menacing weather patterns to explode across the world. The major area this did not affect was the center of [[Corontium]] around the [[Regalian Archipelago]], which had long benefited from a lack of major regional fault lines or magical disturbances.
+While all of this was occurring in distant Ithania, the statue of Estel within the Altalar capital vanished. Within mere hours, the Cataclysm suddenly burst across the world in what most Altalar describe to be the Scream of Estel. The actual sound was the remaining resonance from a magical shockwave originating in distant Drowda, the result of the Veil tearing. Unlike in previous Invasions, where the Void forces found themselves sucked back into their realm to wait again for the portals to reopen, now they were sent into a realm with shattered fragmentary portals while many Demons were themselves outright destroyed. The Veil was now forever damaged, leaking both [[Exist]] and Void power into the world. This event also served to trap the [[Archdemon]] in our world; unable to sustain his form,  he entered into the body of an [[Ailor]] woman. Some Altalar associate this woman with the Kathar, [[Void Worship]] and the supposed treachery on the battlefield. In fact, she was merely a servant. As the sound of the Scream was finishing to echo across Aloria, two things occurred simultaneously. First, the world’s continents and landmasses quaked as tectonic plates, disturbed by magical forces, rubbed, smashed, and ground against each other. This drove the seas to become turbulent, landmasses to sink into the sea, new ones to rise up, and menacing weather patterns to explode across the world. The major area this did not affect was the center of [[Corontium]] around the [[Regalian Archipelago]], which had long benefited from a lack of major regional fault lines or magical disturbances.
 The second event was the Wildering. To the Altalar, the Wildering serves as their great punishment from Estel and is almost all they focus on when discussing the Cataclysm. Unlike most other races of the world, who had to deal with a myriad of disasters, the Altalar largely had to contend with an explosion of nature. Trees erupted from the paved streets of Altalar cities, lashing out with thick roots and branches as, around them, nature reclaimed thousands of miles of urbanized territory. The Altalar capital, [[Alar Talea]], was struck by a sudden earthquake which collapsed hundreds of millennia-old structures on their aristocratic inhabitants before nature engulfed the area. Even living people were not safe from this event, as fleeing individuals reported to see their neighbors, children, friends, turning into plantlife before their very eyes. The only people to not suffer such a fate were the Yanar, who, while lovers of nature and themselves essentially living plants, claim the event came with a horrible and dark sound which terrified even them. The only cities to survive in some way intact were those on the exterior, the coastal trading cities located away from the heartland of what had once been jungles-turned urban cities-returned to jungles. As a result of all of this, the Altalar believe it was punishment for failing Estel and her Pantheon; she unleashed the event to return the world to how she had found it before leaving to one day return when the world was once again worthy to bear her presence.