The Rend
The chasm that cleaves Twilight Peak, opened eons ago when the mountain was split to steal its heart of fire.
- Before the Invasion
- Between the Ages
- Dark Times
Description
The Rend is the great gap that cleaves Twilight Peak in two: a curious mesh of old ruins and natural rock, with narrow shelves and footbridges clinging to sheer walls and temples carved into the stone. Light seldom reaches its crevices. It shows, Aurelius observed, that elves are not merely forest-loving druids but masters at adapting any environment to their ways.
Historical context
The Rend was opened eons ago, when the mountain was split to steal its heart and grant mortals mastery of fire. Abigail was raised between its walls. In the Dark Times Umbra festered there, hidden portals led onto the Umbral Plane, and the Unlit made their last stand along its trail below Sun's Cradle.
Related entries
LocationTwilight Peak
The elven seat of power: a mountain split in two, with a city, catacombs and prisons carved deep within, taken over by Umbra in the Dark Times.Ancient days · Between · Dark Times
HistoryThe 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.Ancient days
LocationSun's Cradle
The elven heart of Twilight Peak, crowned by a grand palace, from which the core of fire was once carried away at a terrible price.Ancient days · Between · Dark Times
CharacterAbigail
An elf of Sun's Cradle who opened herself to Umbra to end the war of the dead, and became the darkness that now threatens Meliora.Between · Dark Times
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