Ink and watercolour sketch of a mountain torn in two by a seam of fire, a procession of tiny figures carrying a blazing core out of a palace along the burning chasm.

History

The Splitting of Twilight Peak

Eons ago, Twilight Peak was split in two to carry its heart of fire out of Sun's Cradle, opening the Rend at a terrible cost in elven lives.

  • Before the Invasion

Description

Eons ago, Twilight Peak was split in half so that its heart could be stolen and mortals granted mastery of fire. That heart was the core of fire, carried out of Sun's Cradle, and the wound it left in the mountain is the Rend.

Historical context

The price was terrible. In the war of the dead Abigail, arguing that the core should be left beneath its protective spells, reminded those around her how many elves had burned just to carry it out of Sun's Cradle. When the stranger found a core of fire in a burned ravine of the Primeweald, Aurelius wondered whether the elves had tried to unleash it on the undead without a wizard's help; nothing would grow around it while it lay unprotected.

"Do you not know what opened the Rend?" — Abigail