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The Second Sending of Darkness is a historical event on Auberean. It is one of the Sendings of Darkness, which are laid out in the Fivefold Curse and the Heretical Prophecy. The sections of the Fivefold Curse and the Heretical Prophecy pertaining to the Second Sending are as follows:
Fivefold Curse The Darkness shall send again
An avenging star
A light to bring darkness
Heretical Prophecy And all falls to ruin so shall come; the star.
The darkness will impart its wisdom,
And the Light shall lose its way.
And blackness shall fall across the land,
And the Light will be hidden above.
Aerfalle's Letter
In Leafdawning, 11 PY, Isparians learned about the second Sending in Aerfalle's Letter when Aerfalle wrote,
- "Recall the last coming of the dark spawn. I had established this little colony perhaps three centuries previous..."[1]
- "The Second Sending came, and the world reeled. So little time there was for me to expand my influence among the little lives below my mountains."[1]
- "When the barbarians fell back to Killiakta, did we not move unseen then? I counseled that we should all stand together, Filinuvekta and Latzimestal, Wind and Lord, lest those we sought to rule all be taken and twisted."[1]
- "So did we join, if only once, in the southern forests of Ifistra. The Winds rose from their hidden lairs, and the Lords marched from their bastions. While the hedge-mages struggled to rekindle the flame of old Facill's knowledge, the Battle of Ayn Tayan raged for three days."[1]
The first quote reveals that the last coming of the 'dark spawn' came approximately 300 years after the colony was established on Aerlinthe. The colony was established in RE 222,[2] so 300 years later would be RE 522. People first began to disappear from Daralet in -2,532 PY (RE 366).[3] Lord Altan and his forces are defeated by Bael'Zharon in -2,527 PY (RE 371)[3] The first sighting of a Shadow Spire occurs in -2,364 PY (RE 534). So the figure of "perhaps three centuries previous" roughly fits this time period.
The second quote is when the term 'Sending' is first used. It also confirms that the Second Sending occurred after the founding the of the colony on Aerlinthe. The third quote refers to the Yalaini retreating to Dereth, and the third and fourth quotes refer to the Battle of Ayn Tayan. Given the second quote's placement between the first quote and the third and fourth quotes, it seems logical to assume that the Second Sending is the Empyrean Shadow War.
Alaidain's Gem
In Leafcull, 11 PY, Isparians discovered Alaidain's Gem in the Catacombs of Ithaenc.
Prophecies
In Solclaim, 14 PY, Isparians that made their way to Knorr discovered an ancient tome written by Asheron, Prophecies, where he communicated the Heretical Prophecy to Delacim,
Reign of Terror
In Harvestgain, 14 PY, during a conversion with Rytheran, Aerfalle said:
- "We had thought Amauxi fallen during the second sending. Had His Eternal Splendor seen so far into the future to hide him even then? And what of the sacrifices made while the outlanders did our bidding without coaxing? Had he foreseen the end of the fourth sending at their hand?"[4]