The Three Great Extinctions

Three catastrophic extinction events mark the deep-time record of Elshore, each one nearly ending the living world and leaving a permanent scar on the planet's geology and biology. The First, some twenty-two million years before the Inarin Calendar, saw a massive asteroid strike shatter the supercontinent Pandaara, birth the great moon Liir Cosmology The Two Moons Two moons attend Elshore: Liir, the near and swift one, and Ressor, the far and slow one. from the wreckage, and raise the Infinite Mountains along the new fault lines. The Second fell upon the Middle Stone Age sentient societies some six hundred and twenty thousand years before the Calendar, driving both the Iru People Iru The progenitors, and the only naturally evolved people of Elshore. and the Imbir People Imbir A vanished people of the deep past: the Iru's sibling hominids, and the first on Elshore to raise true cities and councils that spoke for the many rather than the strong. to the edge of oblivion. The Third came roughly one hundred and forty thousand years before the Calendar, ending the Imbir race entirely and scattering rock enough to form Ressor, Elshore's smaller and darker moon, while the already-separating northern continent Tarkdaara Place Tarkdaara The northern continent of Elshore, called Northland in common speech, on which every chapter of the story so far unfolds. accelerated its drift toward the colder reaches of the world.