# Origins It’s been 300 years since the world shattered. Those old enough to remember the actual events recall the meta eruption beneath the nexus city Eilanthar. The Archmage [[Odam]] shouldered most of the blame. The [[The Arcanum|Arcanum]]’s scholars speculated that he had been successful in his journey to discover the [[The Gates|Twelfth Gate]]. No one had believed it possible to reach even the Tenth, and then of course they said the same about Eleven. But the world had changed then, too. Fractured magic across the realms had led to unpredictable results and things that were previously believed impossible suddenly came to truth. Odam was just one theory, however. Many also believed it to be the work of a slumbering cosmic entity known only as The Dreamer, whose dreams shaped the world. It is believed that His eternal restless sleep had caused a shift in reality, creating and altering the Shards. # Aftermath After the world shattered there had begun an ongoing effort to rediscover realms that had drifted out of known travel routes. Shard hopping had become a new and fascinating danger. Some opted to search for new Etherways between realms and planes, beyond those already known.