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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark Hope" data-source="post: 1956694" data-attributes="member: 27051">The Blue Age came to an end as a result of the halfling nature masters (the rhulisti) attempting to correct a lifeshaped experiment/accident that got out of hand.  While attempting to expand the powers of the ocean, they instead created a "brown tide" which began to devour the oceans.  Their response was to create the Pristine Tower and use its powers to destroy the Brown Tide.  This caused a change in the nature of the sun (the Tower is somehow linked into Athas' sun itself) and turned the sun from blue to yellow.As a result of these cataclysmic global changes, the Blue Age came to an end with the shrinking of the oceans and the rhulisti civilisation fell.  The surviving rhulisti nature-masters then used the Pristine Tower to convert themselves (and the majority of the rhulisti species) into new races.  These "Rebirth" races became the new races of Athas - elves, dwarves, humans as well as the aforementioned pyreen, of which Rajaat was a member.  So the races of Athas are all descended from the initial rhulisti stock.  Some rhulisti degenerated into barbaric savagery, forgetting their past, and a small group (isolated on islands that later became the Jagged Cliffs) managed to preserve fragments of rhulisti wisdom and rudimentary life-shaping technologies.  There are also rhulisti sleeping in suspended animation in at least on location beneath the surface of Athas.  An unrealised plot development from late 2e days also features rhulisti returning to Athas from an orbiting vessel commonly believed to be a comet, but mentioning this in most DS circles tends to produce, er, varied responses <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />It was later use of the Pristine Tower by Rajaat and his Champions that turned the yellow sun to crimson and ended Green Age (along with, oh, a few millenia of apocalyptic warfare), bringing about the state of the world as it now stands.Oh, and welcome to Athas, btw <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.</blockquote>

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