The Shattering

The Shattering was a series of catastrophic events that occurred in the Tiberian Continent during the years 1989-2009.

Here is a quick description of the event written down in an ancient text.

The ‘world that once was’ has ended. In an instant, destruction reaped the land. Earthquakes and floods broke the land apparent and a thousand castles and towns were reduced to rubble. The once fertile continent of Ayka distorted and twisted into a shattering of a countless number of islands and terrains. Grotesque creatures of mythology, once stories to scare children, attacked the land. The social system of the civilised world that had been in place for centuries had been broken down in a matter of days. Those that had once been rich had their expensive villas stripped before their eyes, their vast swathes of farmland being scorched into cinders by the sun, and their peasants either killed or disappearing. Many of those peasants came back to their old owners, taking out a lifetime of anger and resentment. Soon, the only way to survive was to go back to their primitive roots, resorting to the killing, raping and looting that reserved for those deemed uncivilised. The barbaric tribes of the north were the ones who benefited most from this breakdown of the natural order. Their lands were far from the centre of the disaster, and their warlike societies were well suited to this new world order, allowing them to quickly take advantage of the issues in the south. They conducted raid after raid into the new broken lands, taking gold, food and slaves back to their homelands in triumph. For a while the barbarian tribes grew into vastly wealthy kingdoms, until their hubris got the better of them. For pestilence haunted the all survivors - civilised or uncivilised. Like a demon the feared Nasyrik plague stalked the lands. It deformed most into a wretched race to be known as “mutes”. These pitiful souls established small villages where they cowered from the nightly beasts that beset them. The lucky few who were not affected watched in horror as humanity was drained before their eyes.