Editing Tearfall

The '''Tearfall''', also known as '''''ileleste''''' (falling rain, in [[Elven language|Elven]]),<ref name="Draco2e2">{{Cite book/Draconomicon (1990)|4}}</ref> the '''changing of the stars''',<ref name="tGHotR-p8">{{Cite book/The Grand History of the Realms|8}}</ref> the '''seven-turn winter''', or the '''month of mist''',<ref name="Draco2e">{{Cite book/Draconomicon (1990)|2}}</ref> was a planet-wide disaster that struck [[Abeir-Toril]] in the final millennium of the [[Days of Thunder]].<ref name="FRCG">{{Cite book/Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide|41}}</ref> It was widely believed [[dragon|dragonkind]] was created as a consequence of the Tearfall.<ref name="DoF">{{Cite book/Dragons of Faerûn|7}}</ref>

The '''Tearfall''' was in fact the '''Sundering''', the event when the worlds of [[Abeir]] and [[Toril]] were originally separated. As such, this event was related to the [[First Sundering|First]] and [[Second Sundering]]s.<ref name="Youtube">{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAoq-vwWHHg|title=What is the Sundering? (Part 1)|accessmonthday=September 7th|accessyear=2017|author=[[Ed Greenwood]],  [[Erin M. Evans]], [[Paul S. Kemp]], [[R.A. Salvatore]], [[Richard Lee Byers]], [[Troy Denning]], [[James Wyatt]] |date=August 21th, 2012}}</ref> 

==History==
According to the ''[[Parwiccan Cycle]]'', a devastating meteor rain fell in {{Yearlink|-31000}},<ref name="DoF"/> creating a series of natural catastrophes across the planet that destroyed whole continents in earthquakes, fires, and windstorms, rearranging even the positions of the seas. Ancient [[sarrukh]] accounts called this event the "changing of the stars".<ref name="tGHotR-p8"/> Due to the catastrophe, the four Inner Seas merged together to form the [[Sea of Fallen Stars]]. In both the ''Parwiccan Cycle'' and the [[giant]]s' traditions, the meteors were actually [[dragon]] eggs from which the varied races of dragonkind were born.<ref name="DoF"/><ref name="GC">{{Cite book/Giantcraft|7}}</ref>

Scholars from [[Candlekeep]] had the theory that those natural catastrophes were the consequence of a comet or an ice moon<ref name="Draco2e"/> that fell from the sky and devastated much of the planet, and referred to this event as the Tearfall.<ref name="DoF"/> According to their theory, the dramatic climate change that followed quickly brought an end to the [[batrachi]] civilization and allowed the rapid evolution of [[proto-dragon]]s into the various dragon species.<ref name="DoF"/>

The [[red dragon]]s' creation myth compiled in the ''[[Book of the World]]'' tells a similar history, in which the [[dragon]] [[deity]] [[Asgorath]] cast down an entity known as [[Zotha]] after creating the world and then she proceeded to create dragonkind.<ref name="Draco2e"/>

According to Abeiran scholars, however, the Tearfall was actually caused by the actions of the batrachi. As they were losing their war against the [[titan]]s, they performed a powerful summoning ritual and released several [[primordials]] from their ancient prisons. The [[god]]s quickly moved against their ancient foes, and it was those battles that caused the worldwide catastrophes that destroyed the batrachi civilization. A primordial known as "Asgorath the World-Shaper", determined to destroy the world if she couldn't control it, threw an ice moon at the planet, creating the Sea of Fallen Stars. Before the world was completely destroyed, Lord [[Ao]] intervened and sundered Abeir-Toril into two twin worlds, Abeir and Toril, giving the former to the primordials and the latter (the original world) to the gods, ending the conflict.<ref name="FRCG"/>

Nobody knew for sure if Asgorath actually threw dragon eggs to the world when she cast down the ice moon, although dragons revered Asgorath as the creator of their race.<ref name="Draco2e3">{{Cite book/Draconomicon (1990)|25}}</ref> 

A similar event, also called a "Tearfall", happened in [[1374 DR]], when many dragon eggs fell from the sky across [[Faerûn]] on an unusual year-long meteor rain, after the dragon population was greatly reduced in number in the last [[Rage of Dragons]]. Most of the eggs were recovered by the followers of [[Tiamat]], a few by the followers of [[Bahamut]], and the ones that weren't found either hatched on their own or were lost.<ref name="DoF2">{{Cite book/Dragons of Faerûn|10}}</ref>

==Appendix==
===References===
{{Refs}}
===Connections===
{{Ages}}
[[Category:History]]
[[Category:Events]]
[[Category:Events on Toril]]
[[Category:Climate and weather events]]