Dialogue[]
| “ | A piece of the sky comes loose and tumbles toward the earth, afire. The flames wreathing it scorch the grasses of your pastures and the nut trees and berry bushes of your scrubland. The sky stone lands not far away, throwing up a great plume of dark smoke. The earth shudders beneath you, throwing people and animals alike to the ground. The smoke plume hovers over the lands of the <destroyed> clan. You can feel in your bones that they have been utterly destroyed. A wall of surging flame rises from the spot where the sky fell. What do you work hardest to protect? | ” |
— Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind | ||
Consequences[]
A follow up question is asked whether or not you want to gather your choice together or spread it out as much as possible.
Choosing people, gathered together will limit your casualties and prevent random clan ring members from dying in this event. All goods will be destroyed along with 2 shrines or temples, three treasures, and many herds and horses. Your fortifications will also be severely damaged.
If you do not choose to protect people, three random leaders will die. Ring members and even heroes are not immune to dying in this way. (Beren, however, will always survive.)
No matter what you do, you will have Spirit Indifference after this event because the wall of fire scorched your spirits.
Notes[]
If you have the former Wheel woman from the Wheel Adoption event on your circle and it is her birth clan that is destroyed, she has unique dialogue.
You may hear various consequences and reactions to the skyquake:
| “ | Apparently the <Wheel Clan>s have reacted to the skyfall by rounding up people they say are to blame, and burning them in fire cages. While I'm sure there were sacrilegious <Wheel Clan> people, I don't think a disaster that big was caused by a few Wheels | ” |
| “ | The high priest of the <Elmali Clan> went to the Gods War for to seek aid in rebuilding after the cataclysm. He found the sunpath strewn with rubble, and torn away in places. We should perform the Elmal Path Guardian rite as soon as we can, in hopes that our visitations there will help heal it. | ” |
| “ | Sad news from the <Other> clan. All the babies born since the skyfall were stillborn. | ” |
| “ | Ghosts of the <destroyed> clan have been wandering the valley ever since the sky fell on them. They appeared first to the <third> clan, nearest the crater. Then they came to the <fourth clan>s, turning their hair white and prematurely aging their warriors. | ” |
| “ | A <Other> patrol felt great terror when they found Alkothi demon men prowling their border. They feared an incursion by these terrible foes. But the monstrous sons of Shargash sought only to see the skyquake damage for themselves. The <Other>s beheld something unimaginable on those Alkothi faces--fear! | ” |
| “ | In the wake of this terrible disaster, ill will between peoples festers. Sun worshipping clans blame the collapse of the sky on the storm folk, whose god started all of this. The Rams react in kind, saying that if the solar gods merely accepted their reduced position, no one would have to fear the accidents of war. | ” |
| “ | Dwarves entered the lands of the <Other> clan, searching for remnants of the fallen sky. Though ordinarily the <Other>s would resist such an incursion with unrelenting force, the losses they suffered from the disaster left them reluctant to pick up their swords. The dwarves used strange instruments to dig up buried sky pieces, and departed without acknowledging their trespass. | ” |