Editing Long Night

(Also referred to as the '''Twilight of Magic''', the '''Age of Silence'''<ref name=":0">{{VERef|10.37 GDI (Pt. 1)}}</ref> and '''the Faded Times'''<ref>{{VERef|8.16}}</ref>''')'''

The '''Long Night''' is the period of time where magic died due to the actions of the [[Mage of Magic's End]] until magic returned to the world.

== Overview ==
The [[Mage of Magic's End]] caused magic to die and magic only came back after 300 years. 

Magic was finally restored by [[Archmages]] who sacrificed themselves in the void to re-ignite magic. The first to do so was the Archmage of Sunlight, [[Ailet Sundrev]], last [Lady] of House Sundrev of the dead Kingdom of Caonis.<ref>{{VERef|8.61}}</ref>{{Quote|quote=You see—when magic died, enchantments waned away. History was lost as fail-safes made of magic disintegrated. But more than that—every magical species reliant on ambient mana and unable to produce their own was suddenly unable to consume what it needed to survive. Countless flora and fauna vanished, leaving holes in the ecosystems that led to further collapse and starvation of the living.|speaker=GDI Internal Monologue|source=https://wanderinginn.com/2025/04/06/10-37-gdi-pt-1/}}

The consequences of the death of magic were beyond catastrophic: 

* The population of the world was reduced by 60 percent during the centuries of the Long Night.<ref name=":0" />
* Worldwide ecosystems were destroyed because magical flora and fauna went extinct.<ref name=":0" />
* [[Seamwalkers]] climbed over the edge of the world very frequently because they did not have to fear magic.<ref>{{VERef|9.63}}</ref>
* Reproduction among sentient species was very high and it is implied a lot of <Category: Sex> Skills were created.<ref name=":0" />
* Monsters still existed during this time and were empowered by the lack of magic. '''Reference TBA'''
* The average level at the time was including infants and children and 47 excluding all of them under 14.<ref name=":0" />

== People ==

* [[Thatalocian Reevis|Thatalocian]] was born during this period of time and his (first) life was shaped by the era and its threat of Seamwalkers the whole world had to battle. He lived to see the Return of Magic.

*[[The Goblin King]] in the body of [[Hithzerene]] the Scaled, a [[Goblin]] that had escaped from an [Archmage]’s laboratory as magic died, protected the remaining tribes of Goblins.<ref>{{VERef|10.36 - (Pt. 1)}}</ref>
* [[Teriarch|Teriarch's]] [[dragonthrone]] was used as a shelter.<ref>{{VERef|9.06}}</ref>

== Trivia ==

* It is likely not all Magic was lost during this time, due to the existence of Djinni and Dragons, but also due to the continued existence of Archmages and other magical species.
* [[Zeladona Ischen|Zeladona]] lived during the time of The Lightness Era, as the [[Drath Archipelago|Empire of Drath]] dates her visit at -1176 D.O.M., aka 1176 years before the return of magic at the end of the Long Night.<ref>{{VERef|9.30}}</ref>
* The current population of [[Innworld]] knows little about the event as much of the history of that time has been lost. However, a few (indirect sources) of the events that happened still exist including tales by the Gnolls, Teriarch and Thatalocian a contemporary
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