World Splitter

CategoryMarvels
ContinentGorejun
RegionMalurn
AliasTarâks Phallus
Built26 Kindle 7806 DE
Destroyed12 Saunas 331 HE
MapTrod'ghar

The World Splitter was a massive machine built by Tarâk. 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. The World Splitter was powered by five Warp Matter Cores. To make these powerful engines they needed warp matter. Tarâk, not trusting his minions with such powerful and dangerous items, went with the Slaad Hexos to the Decomposition String deep inside the world of Ilabizdum. They got their warp matter, but payed a terrible price in the process, all becoming aberrations of chaos.

In 310 HE, while mining deep in Dûlan-Nûl, the Mezrack found an ancient god-built device. After figuring out its deadly purpose, they went on to use it in a more benign way. Over the next fifteen years, they used it to bore through 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 careless use of the device resulted in the moon's break-up. This sent 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 the Dûlan-Nûl Firestorm.

For two decades, we used Tarâks Phallus, a god-made marvel, a Lith-Crillion marvel, 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 Râpha-Nâr's islands and seabed. The only major part that escaped damage is a colossal diamond drill in the wastes of Sava'khar. The Mezrack inside this drill resettled the ancient ruin of Azaraglad in 332 HE.

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