Massacre of Petixtone

The Massacre of Petixtone was a historic event during the Holy Blight in 904ASE, taking place on the east coast of Fordachai. Famous for its thousands of fossilised people among unrecognisable stone ruins, it was a horrific battlefield.

Now a listed ruin, Petixtone is a reminder of one of the worst ages in Eian history, where millions of Niarist followers, priests and affiliates of the Mond were captured and killed by a world-wide rebellion against the Crown. The rebels punished all Niarists for the events of the Second Emergence by 'sending them back to their false god', as some ancient writings have been told to read.

Petixtone, in particular, was of particular importance during the Holy Blight, as it also saw the end of the Old Ahtex, which Domichaplae Sengra was the last of.

The sprawling fields were the site of a temple known as The Construct, considered to be the most sacred place of worship in the world, and unbeknownst to its inhabitants, it would be their last stand. Long disconnected from Primordian life, the Ahtex evolved into a different strain and saw advantages such as prolonged life, foresight and allegedly, levitation. They were just one of three peoples that suffered tremendous losses in those few years.

The Anverse were the second cast in the trinity of peoples, deeply spiritual cultists that acted as the militant face of Niarism. They alone were the only ones capable of defending their faith when the time came. Even though all three casts were near-wiped out, the Anverse came out the strongest, and eventually fled into The Black Arm to the east where they would dwell and thrive for thousands of years to come.

The Traco'at, known in modern day as The Taoclave, were the hunter-gatherer cast of the trinity, originally intended for efficient resource gathering en masse, but through time developed into a close-nit wing of the Anverse, trained to kill in hiding. Since they were mostly spread across the world by 904ASE, they would be the first to face extermination and were essentially extinct when Petixtone came under siege.