The First Aeon ~240000 - 155000 BFA     Though Alacrian science was aware of the massive age of the planet Tsuunahgo, "history" was at most only used to define a period after around 240,000 BFA - the approximate date of the earliest known draconic legends. The First Aeon of history was the age ruled by the seven Protodragons. Each of these immortal energy beings held sway over one realm of Lur-Asko, shaping its climate and managing its creatures. Eventually, the Protodragons all left Lur-Asko, leaving their rulership to their children, the red and white dragons.

~155000 BFA: The Asteroid     Draconic legend tells of the Protodragons protecting Lur-Asko from total destruction after Tsuunahgo captured a passing asteroid. Although the rocky mass did not directly impact the planet, it settled into an orbit too close to remain intact, and was torn apart into a stream of rubble. Most of this debris eventually became Tsuunahgo's rings, but a small portion decayed into the atmosphere. This resulted into over two centuries of devastation - airbursts, hazy ice ages, and catastrophic ozone depletion.
    Scholars are divided on the causes of the disaster. Many believe that it was a natural coincidence of astrophysics, while others interpret certain ancient texts to indicate that the Protodragon Nemesis the Green used his own devices to pull the asteroid in, and that this expenditure of energy is the incident which fractured the climate of his realm Cevelky. His motivations for arranging the impact are a matter of additional speculation. Draconic historians tend to avoid this and other interpretations that cast Nemesis as a villain, preferring to portray the Protodragons as a united front; the dragons themselves avoid commenting on the issue entirely, as such things are "beyond the potential concerns of mortals." Meanwhile, another theory holds Adamas to be responsible; depending on the source, such theorists speculate that adamant pseudogravitic anomalies arising naturally from the moon pulled in the asteroid, while others assert that the Restless Sleeper willed the cataclysm. Still other theories hold that a competing struggle between Protodragon and moon is why the asteroid neither missed nor directly impacted the planet. All of these competing hypotheses ultimately struck Alacrian scientists as too speculative, thus they maintained an astrophysical accident as the likely cause.
    Whatever the case, the Protodragons were able to use an extremely powerful form of weather control derived from their own realm-shaping inventions to protect Lur-Asko from the effects of the asteroid. The effects on the Far Remote are unknown, but Wynthia was completely devastated by the crisis; it is known that the Protodragons relocated the Vitur Roc from northern Wynthia to the Gelid Isles beforehand in order to save them from extinction. With the Protodragons focusing on protecting their own seven realms, Wynthia was reduced to a wasteland devoid of all life.
    In the aftermath of their work, the Protodragons had expended a tremendous amount of their power, burning out their ability to continue altering the realms of Lur-Asko. Now outmatched by the greatest of their offspring, their transfer of rulership to the reds and whites was apparently peaceful and viewed as reasonable.
    For much of the remainder of the First Aeon, it is thought that the dragons focused on mitigating the lasting consequences of the incident - for example, helping the various plants and animals of Lur-Asko adapt to the planet's new rings. Ever since the asteroid, Tsuunahgo's nights have been significantly brighter than even the most brilliant double-full-moon night before them. Although the rings are barely visible in full daylight, after sundown they are a massive arc of whitish light across the southern skies of every Lur-Asko latitude, broken only by the planet's shadow moving across them throughout the night. Lifeforms that require true darkness, such as some fungi and nocturnal animals, now thrive only in caves, or in the "shadowlands" beneath the megaforests of I'Gremsul and Hal'Tayat.

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