The Calamities

The First Calamity
One year ago a great earthquake ravaged the world. Mountain ranged sprung up from barren fields, rivers changed their course, lakes were drained, valleys were filled, and many great cities and temples crumbled. Repeated quakes of varying intensity continue to rumble from time to time.

The Second Calamity
During a giant earthquake a thick cloud came from the sea and fell down upon the land. The fog was thick enough to slice and lasted for 3 nights. When it finally receded, a third of the lakes, rivers, streams, and waters were poison. Horrible diseases infected a third of the people, and all farms fed by poison waters went bare. Famines spread across the land, and patches of poisoned ocean occasionally wash schools of diseased fish on shore.

The Third Calamity
One night during a loud, deep rumbling was heard from high in the sky. The moon shook with great fury before it became drenched in a blood red hue and a third of it shattered into the sky, a permanent crescent next to the pieces of itself. The rumbling continued and soon the sky shook, and very star in the night fell down onto the earth like figs shaken from a great tree. The stars now roam the land, varied in form from great crystalline beings to stone-made behemoths to great hounds. Maritime trade ceased and economies around the world suffered.

see also: The Seven Seals