Editing Long Night

The '''Long Night''' refers to the period of three hundred years in Innworld when magic was dead. It is 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>

== Overview ==
{{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 [[Mage of Magic's End]], a Level 93 [Archmage], attempted to reach for the heart of magic. However, he accidentally extinguished it, causing all magic to turn off in [[Innworld]].

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 34 including infants and children and 47 excluding all of them under 14.<ref name=":0" />
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>

== 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 ==

* A few magical species survived, including [[Dragons]] and [[Djinni]], though [[Teriarch]] 
* [[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>
* 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, and living contemporaries such as Teriarch and Thatalocian 
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