Khazak Disaster

The Khazak Disaster is the main driving force behind the Dwarves anti-magic stance. It was an explosion that shook the world literally and ideologically.

Cause
The cause of the Khazak Disaster is a topic that is still debated. However, the most commonly accepted reason for its occurrence is unregulated experimentation with Arcyte. Like all things, the Vadu'ade raced to the front of technological development. Creating wild and fantastical inventions, the Adamant Commonwealth exploded ahead of the Cerulean Confederacy, who opted for a slow and steady progression. A grave miscalculation lead to the unstable compounds within the station exploding with enough force for the whole world to feel.

Effect
The night the station exploded is one that is remembered by all those who witnessed it. The sky erupted in purple flame as the Khazak station was instantly vaporized in a fiery explosion. The mountainholmes shook something fierce as the explosion consumed several miles of marsh. The amount of debris ejected into the atmosphere blocked out the sun for nearly two years, and it rained sediment and ash for six months. An entire mountainholme was consumed as the unstable arcyte raced across the surface, corrupting and twisting as it went. The mountainholme was evacuated as quickly as possible, but many were either buried or twisted by the unstable compounds produced from the explosion.

Now the southern marshes are a hellish nightmare locked behind massive technological pillars designed to contain the spread of the unstable magic. However, it was too little too late. The Bron'ibal Mountainholme was consumed and became a nest for The Forgotten. They spill out of Bron'ibal daily flooding the vast marshlands with nightmarish beasts. Furthermore, abominations are becoming more common as the twisted thousands of Bron'ibal finally make their way to the surface.

Given all of the terrible consequences of the disaster, the Dwarves have since taken a strong anti-magic stance that has put them at serious odds with the rest of the world who openly embraces it. It is the primary cause of the Frozen War, and has thrust the nations of the world into skrimishes all across the globe as the Dwarves attempt to exert their ideological belief on the rest of Pavonas.