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[necromantiaonline]

The Collapse (6E499 - 7E050~)

The world history of The Corpse can most generally be divided between two categories: the world before The Collapse, and the world after it.  This can be attributed to many things: the apocalyptic scale of the event; the political, economic, and social consequences that came from it; the intense shift in status quo that resulted from the devastation of approximately 1/3rd of the world. To say that The Collapse was significant would be an understatement, to say the least. 

Despite this, the exact causes of The Collapse remain a mystery, even to this day. We know how it happened, and we know how the conditions of its most affected areas (see: The Great Expanse) contributed to the destruction, but going any farther than that is pure speculation. All evidence of its causes would have been wiped out with everything else it obliterated in its wake.

But back to the basics. What was The Collapse?

The Collapse was the mass collective implosion of all raw ether crystals within an approximate 2,000 km radius of The Heart. To make a long story short, every crystal within that vicinity simultaneously underwent a version of nuclear fission, resulting in a chain-reaction of magically-charged explosions all throughout The Great Expanse. 

Raw ether crystals develop naturally, usually deep underground in the extensive caverns that tend to form around Veins. Some raw crystals, however, grew in abundance some miles all around the perimeter of The Heart, as the constant flow of raw liquidized ether provided the perfect conditions for crystallization. Had this been the extent of the crystal’s reach, then the damage of The Collapse- while still devastating in its own right- would have been relegated to the explosive natural disasters common of the region.

What made The Collapse so uniquely disastrous was the ongoing practice of Crystal Harvesting.

From the early 300s of the 6th Era onwards, the Bhanta Kingdoms dominated much of Central Bondawi engaged in an ‘arms race’. 

Once a part of the greater Bhanta Empire, the Bhanta Kingdoms were the result of years of political instability and succession crises. What all these disparate kingdoms had in common was their desire to form and be the head of a re-unified Bhanta Empire, one that hearkened back to its golden age at the beginning of the 6th Era. Invasion, conquest, and ideological warfare followed suit. 

As violent and unsustainable as this arrangement was, for a time this caused a huge surge in technological and magical innovation. The relentless war effort exerted by these powers meant that they constantly had to keep an ‘edge’ over one another, lest they fall and be assimilated one by one by more powerful kingdoms (as eventually became the case nearing the end of the era.) 

One such innovation was the harvesting and utilization of raw ether crystals in everyday life. Simple in use and design, these crystals would be harvested directly from The Heart via slave labor (usually prisoners of war conscripted into service), cut, and be used as power sources of the many Wonders Bhanta’s wizards created. Because of how thorough The Collapse was in the destruction of these Wonders most of their designs, mechanics, and even purposes remain a mystery, only appearing in second and third hand accounts of merchants and other travelers from the surrounding regions. 

Crystal products were widespread across all Bhanta Kingdoms, and most concentrated in urban areas where most people had congregated to not only enjoy the increased quality of life granted by this new technology but to also enjoy the constant conflict of the countryside waged by their rulers. 

Additionally, while the Bhanta Kingdoms enjoyed most crystal products, they did engage in a ludicrous crystal trade with other nations of The Expanse found wanting their crystal-powered weapons, thus expanding the range of these crystals even farther.

When The Collapse hit, when all ether crystals in its vicinity underwent [nuclear] fission, the explosion’s epicenter was at the most densely populated points of The Expanse’s civilizations. The Bhanta Kingdoms were immediately decimated as once-great cities were reduced to smoldering, burning piles of rubble and stone, and farther still once-great nations quickly entered states of national disasters as storehouses and even armies themselves suffered massive damage. 

As modern readers we may be tempted to compare the scope of the destruction and devastation that took place to the many scorched earth campaigns enacted by the Dread Lord during the Nightmare Wars. But in contrast to the Nightmare Wars, where the destruction of entire cities and cultures were prolonged and were, for the most part, able to survive the ordeal, The Collapse wiped entire peoples off the map. Languages languished as its native speakers expired overnight, and the secrets to Crystal Technology, which is said to have included rudimentary but implemented designs of firearms, power generators, and even motowagons are likely now lost forever. 

To finish, a quote from a Nahe merchant who witnessed the direct aftermath mere days into The Collapse, after landing port in what is now modern-day Uroji City, 

“Where once a shining city stood lay a cesspit of desolation. It looked as if angry War himself set foot and razed it to the ground. I saw fires of strange colors dance across piles of what used to be homes and stores. I saw churches and wizardry towers reduced to rubble. I saw pockets so utterly destroyed that there was nothing left save for black, scarred earth. The miasma of death stenched the air. Those that were not buried under the destruction were dragged out onto the street, where their broken, bloodied bodies fed the vultured hordes above. When I saw the shambling survivors, looking so much like corpses themselves, I truly felt like the world was ending before my eyes.”

[riseofthecommonwoodpile]

another round down. good round! lotta bangers! i especially recommend Yuta Orisaka's Heisei, hadn't heard much about it besides "people into music from japan speak highly of this" and they are right to, it's simply some of the best popular music instrumentation and arrangement i've heard in years.

Actress- Ghettoville (8.5/10)

Agoraphobic Nosebleed- Frozen Corpse Stuffed With Dope (6.5/10)

Aice room- Dreamy Planet (7.0/10)

Al-Thawra- Who Benefits from War? (7.0/10)

Ami Yoshida- Tiger Thrush (9.5/10)

Angel Hair- Pregnant With The Senior Class (8.5/10)

Ash-B- Up (8.0/10)

Bed In (ベッド・イン)- RICH (8.5/10)

Burial- Rodent (7.5/10)

Carly Rae Jepsen- Dedicated (8.5/10)

Caspar Brötzmann Massaker- Home (7.5/10)

Chris & Cosey- Exotika (7.0/10)

Cub- Betti-Cola (8.0/10)

Cybotron- Enter (8.0/10)

Emmylou Harris- Pieces of the Sky (7.5/10)

f(x)- Pink Tape (7.5/10)

The Field Mice- Where Did You Learn To Kiss That Way (9.5/10)

G-Schmitt- Garnet (8.0/10)

Galaxie 500- On Fire (9.0/10)

The Gerogerigegege- Tokyo Anal Dynamite (10/10)

Hammerhead- Into the Vortex (8.0/10)

Jan Garbarek Quartet- Afric Pepperbird (8.0/10)

Kilhi+Ice- Le 7e ART (8.5/10)

Killing Joke- Killing Joke (8.5/10)

Lamb of God- Ashes Of The Wake (8.5/10)

The Locust- Plague Soundscapes (7.5/10)

Nicole Dollanganger- Natural Born Losers (8.0/10)

Nina Simone- Wild is the Wind (8.0/10)

osno1- REMIXES 2017 (8.5/10)

PLASTIC GIRL IN CLOSET- A.Y.A. (8.0/10)

Roman Candle- Discount Fireworks (8.5/10)

Rustie- Glass Swords (6.0/10, deleted from library)

Sabbat- Envenom (7.5/10)

Seiko Matsuda- Touch Me Seiko (7.5/10)

Seiko Oomori (大森靖子)- 絶対少女 (Zettai Shōjo) (8.5/10)

Spacemen 3- Playing With Fire (8.0/10)

Trash Talk- Trash Talk (7.0/10)

Watain- Casus Luciferi (6.0/10, deleted from library)

X-Ray Spex- Germ Free Adolescents (9.0/10)

Yuta Orisaka- Heisei (9.5/10)

[naijablog]

Imo State Medical Graduate Dies Two Days After POP A graduate of Imo State University Identified as urenna promise Iroegbu has lost her life in a ghastly motor accident. The deceased who studied optometry just concluded her compulsory youth service on 17th July was involved in a accident on 18th July. A friend Martha Nduka mournedher with this words. Urenna Samuel Iroegbu you've shattered our hearts ...Just two days after your NYSC POP and you are no more, how????This wasn't part of the plans we had...Nooooo..we had greater plans....now you've left your family and we, your friends ...The squad will never be the same without you... I was in denial all night wishing the morning could change the news to something pleasant...but no, you are really dead...you are gone...After all the struggles in school, internship and NYSC...after all the 8years of endurance, after the celebration on 16th July 2020...Ure, you left us ...Why please? You were a fighter and I'm so sure you fought to stay alive.... The vehicle you were in was shattered but you made it out in one piece and we were told you were responding to treatment, only for us to still hear last night, you were dead...How???? Samuel Promise Urenna, How????...Now that we were supposed to enjoy life, you couldn't stay for it... I'm happy you lived your short life in a good way...You were so caring, humble, smart and fought for us your friends and family...This is so disheartening....I wish you well my friend... ... Doctor Iroegbu Samuel Promise Urenna, may you find peace...and may God give your family that met your corpse instead of their happy Ada the fortitude to bear this loss... Ureeeeeeeee ....Urenna, I won't get to hear your voice again or even see you laughing again...This is really a hard pill to swallow...God knows best!!!! Find peace, my baby girl...In the purest part of my heart, you shall remain Urennaya.... # 18th of July 2020 really took a lot from me.... #topnaijablog#death https://www.instagram.com/p/CC3YLqBj-7E/?igshid=3jqb4zyu1x9t