World Splitter

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The World Splitter was a massive machine built by Tarâk. Powered by five warp matter cores, the size of a mountain, it had billions of gears and moving parts, some so huge that special constructs were created to move and fix them; the largest were the iron colossus, forty of them.

In 731 LE, while mining deep in the moon of Dûlan-Nûl, the Mezrack found this ancient god-built device. After figuring out its deadly purpose, they went on to use it in a more benign way. Over the centuries, they bored across the Dûlan-Nûl moon in search of precious metals and gemstones. Tarâk's device, what he simply called the World Splitter, was not designed for delicate tasks. It was a war machine built to destroy worlds. As it bored a huge path before it, it also created great cracks in the surrounding rock and then branches of pulsating entropic energy.

In 330 HE, the moon of Dûlan-Nûl broke apart, sending fragments into the Void and others careening into Ilabizdum's atmosphere. Some of those that made it through the Belt of Geb got as far as Bal-Kriav. On this world, this meteor shower became known as the Dûlan-Nûl Firestorm.

We lived inside of it, boring great tunnels through the moon, exploiting precious ores, becoming rich beyond belief. Greed overtook engineering concerns, our world shattered, fulfilling the true purpose of the primordial device, a World Splitter, undoing the work of Creation.

- Khelâd-Thûlu, a Mezrack's dying words to an elderaunt doctor - "Last Words"

On the world Bal-Kriav, fragments of the World Splitter can be found in western Ice Cap, the drill casing, made of Dûlan, litters Iron Bottom's islands and seabed. The only major part that escaped damage is a colossal diamond drill in the wastes of Sava'khar; along with a few thousand Mezrack.