Editing Sigil:Great Wrath (section)

== After the Breaking ==

The Sigil Lands that emerged from the Great Wrath were fundamentally different from those that had preceded it. Tar Aerchel no longer existed as a functioning civilization, the surviving Seylandri were increasingly concentrated in Seylannon, the Gholibin carried their own memories of the disaster, the Dragha were gone, and Rhone settlers occupied growing stretches of former Seylandri country.

The centuries that followed became the [[Sigil:Age of the Thousand Kingdoms|Age of the Thousand Kingdoms]], also remembered as the Warg Years. The Rhone built amid ruins they only partly understood, learning from Seylandri who remained among them, borrowing from Gholibin and Vulkah traditions, and salvaging material from the wreckage of Tar Aerchel. Even the dead Monarchs entered the new world, for their nearly imperishable wood was cut from fallen trunks and reused in halls, gates, bridges and fortifications for centuries.

Whether the Great Wrath damaged more than civilizations and landscapes has never been settled. Seylandri descriptions of the Long Summer speak of light, forests, Craft and living relationships that later generations have never reproduced, and some Elders maintain that something in the world itself was broken. Others argue that no further explanation is necessary: destroy Tar Aerchel, kill the Monarchs, scatter its people and erase much of its accumulated memory, and the world afterward would inevitably seem diminished.

Perhaps the disagreement cannot be resolved. Perhaps the distinction itself is false.