Tiwa'erra

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Tiwa'erra was a flying fortress built by a Covenant general named Ptah. It was an air defense platform for zones threatened by the Primordials. On Sphere 411, it saw action in the battles of Regadnîn and at the Bulwark of Târulûth.

In the Battle of Šadullu (1501 DE), Ptah took his fortress to the continent of Šadullu where it served as a field hospital and place of refuge for battle-worn soldiers. In the final days of the great battle of Šadullu, Tiwa'erra was assaulted by an entire army of storms archons. Led by the primordial mastermind Eysveig, this elemental army overwhelmed a legion of psionic constructs and golems. Ptah's trap was sprung. When they got near Tiwa'erra's Core, Ptah dropped the containment field holding in all the psychic energy stored in the bastion's walls. The wave of energy was drawn towards the Core like a magnet. It tore apart Tiwa'erra, with shards becoming like razor sharp glass, chunks of walls and floors, all tumbling downward, and ripping through enemy forces. Before it reached the Core, Ptah used a powerful psionic power called Split Time. He split the current time-line into two and then brought them back together at the point where debris was tumbling down and then being blown outward as the poles of the Core shifted. The two debris fields from different time-lines smashed into each other. This alone killed the entire archon force inside Tiwa'erra. This explosion was only the start of total destruction of an entire primordial army and their leader. For when the two time-lines diverged and then merged back onto one, a tremendous explosion occurred over Šadullu. It was so powerful that it was heard on Oralûth. The shock wave ruptured the organs of all those present. This was followed by countless filaments of time which either withered the shattered bodies to dust or reduced them to primordial goo. Tiwa'erra, nearly the size of a mountain, was destroyed, yet countless shards of it were left undamaged. These Shards of Tiwa'erra rained down across Midrêth and Ninilêth. Tiwa'erra Core was also left unscathed. The blast blew it from the world Bal-Kriav and into the Void, and then moving at an unthinkable speed it shifted to another multiverse. Inside this fast moving object was its passenger, Ptah.

The destruction of Tiwa'erra also resulted in Ptah's many Spheres of Annihilation being crystallized with quintessence. Like the Shards of Tiwa'erra, these spheres were blown across a vast area.

Ptah saved two armies and will be remembered with a monument befitting a hero. I will build this by my own hand, and we that have driven back the Nine Tongued Worm will raise monuments for those that fell on Šadullu.

- Danzar-Khâl, to the Covenant survivors on Oralûth - "Remembering Šadullu"

Lukoon Affair

During Tiwa'erra's construction, Ptah's architectural plans were copied by a master sneak named Lukoon. This theft was only learned after a military unit of the Nawirrûs Covenant was wiped out by the Womb of Entropy. This primordial bastion was too similar in design and purpose to been have made by chance. The Womb of Entropy was built as a vessel for containing magical energy, similar to how Tiwa'erra was built to act as a psionic receptacle. It wasn't long till Lukoon came forward and admitted that he had made a copy of Ptah's plans for Tiwa'erra, but then lost them in battle with the primordial Sarseg. When Ptah learned of this, he motioned for a censure of Lukoon and have him put on a trial for treason. Fortunately for Lukoon, the Covenant's chief declared there would be no hearing with the Tiwa'erra base never classified as a military asset of the Nawirrûs Covenant.