Post by PyrasTerran on Jan 17, 2007 1:45:53 GMT -5
One of the greatest enigmas of the ancient millennia, the great flood was a catastrophe of unparalleled mystery and destruction. It occurred thousands of years ago, and about a thousand years following the Great War. Though of apparently natural means, the vast and suddenness of the flood sparks many debates and conspiracies.
Without warning the very seas of the land rose rapidly, engulfing the entire continent as high as some of its tallest mountain peaks. The flood swept through every kingdom and tribe, even filling the forests of the Dekus and the mountains of the Gorons. No architectural or even magical means was able to stop it, and even after it occurred it did not seem able to relent. It appeared as if the entire world had began to swallow its landforms for good.
Then, as if in response and pity to the despairing refugee masses, the floodwater receded gradually but surely, leaving the entire continent swept up but otherwise as it were…almost.
What was once the mountainous Tetra Kingdom, became the Tetra of today. For some strange reason, this land remained the only on Isles e permanently affected by the flood, forever submerged within the sea, as its people were forced to live out the rest of their generations at its peak. The randomness of the flood, coupled with what happened to Tetra, left many to speculate its origins and purposes.
Some believed it to be the work of magic, particularly magic of the people and races of Tetra, who no doubt tinkered with it badly enough to have flooded themselves and the world; maybe enough to have been punished by the Heavens for it. Others believe it to have been the work of the Goddesses, or perhaps some other divinities, intent on cleaning the world of the impure people that had perpetuated the Great War five-hundred years before.
Without warning the very seas of the land rose rapidly, engulfing the entire continent as high as some of its tallest mountain peaks. The flood swept through every kingdom and tribe, even filling the forests of the Dekus and the mountains of the Gorons. No architectural or even magical means was able to stop it, and even after it occurred it did not seem able to relent. It appeared as if the entire world had began to swallow its landforms for good.
Then, as if in response and pity to the despairing refugee masses, the floodwater receded gradually but surely, leaving the entire continent swept up but otherwise as it were…almost.
What was once the mountainous Tetra Kingdom, became the Tetra of today. For some strange reason, this land remained the only on Isles e permanently affected by the flood, forever submerged within the sea, as its people were forced to live out the rest of their generations at its peak. The randomness of the flood, coupled with what happened to Tetra, left many to speculate its origins and purposes.
Some believed it to be the work of magic, particularly magic of the people and races of Tetra, who no doubt tinkered with it badly enough to have flooded themselves and the world; maybe enough to have been punished by the Heavens for it. Others believe it to have been the work of the Goddesses, or perhaps some other divinities, intent on cleaning the world of the impure people that had perpetuated the Great War five-hundred years before.