Age of Annihilation

The Age of Annihilation came after the Age of Arcana and was followed by our current Age, the Age of Ascension. The Age of Annihilation is famous as the Age when Corruption ran rampant throughout the mainland of Sharum Mal'Kari and nearly consumed its entire population. Were it not for the bravery of the Heroes of Prophecy, it is likely that the world as we know it would have ceased to exist.

Elsewhere in the world, Zarthura remembers the Age of Annihilation as a time of devastating civil war and upheaval. Though Zarthura, thanks to their experimental medicines and ancient rituals, was able to avoid the worst of the Corruption pandemic that shattered the rest of the world, they ended up falling into their own self-made despair when The War of Bleeding Shadows tore their nation apart. Sparked by the assassination of their Kaiser, The War of Bleeding Shadows set ablaze the ethnic and political tensions that had long-since been brewing and became one of the longest, most brutal instances of warfare the world has ever seen-- though, largely due to Zarthura's insular and private nature, most of the rest of the world had no idea what was happening or the true extent of the violence that was occurring.

The Age of Annihilation is considered to have ended when the Heroes of Prophecy restored the Cycle of Regeneration, defeated the leader of the Wild Hunt, and repaired The Weave, effectively sealing the world and saving it from extraplanar threats both current and future. This new stability and hope ushered in a new Age of relative peace and prosperity called the Age of Ascension. However, in Zarthura, this transition was hardly noticed or recognized, for in their nation war still continued to rage on for another decade.