Days of Thunder (1 janv. 35000 av. J.-C. – 31 déc. 30001 av. J.-C.)

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The Days of Thunder was an ancient period of Toril's history. This was the time of the fabled creator races, or Iqua-Tel'Quessir in the elven tongue, and many other races still hid in caves.

The Days of Thunder began when the majority of the glaciers left by the cooling of Abeir-Toril's ocean during the Shadow Epoch finally revealed a supercontinent that would eventually be called Merrouroboros. Life bloomed on this landmass in the form of the creator races and the ancient ape-like ancestors of humans.

It should be noted that many more intelligent races lived on Abeir-Toril at the time, and that these were just the five greatest in the eyes of later scholars. This may explain the unlikely inclusion of primitive humans,[speculation] though elves derided this; the omission of halflings and gnomes; who were apparently not known at this time; and the exclusion of the giants, who though present were not deemed great enough. Elves, dwarves, goblins, and orcs are of course not counted as creator races and do not even appear in records or cave paintings of the time because they, as well as some other human ethnic groups, came later from different worlds.

Humans, though still primitive, even ape-like, and dwelling in caves and using simple tools.

Despite all these five species being called the creator races, only three—the sarrukh, batrachi, and aearee—founded great empires on Abeir-Toril, dominating the continent that would become Faerûn in succession over the course of five millennia. They spawned or created a plethora of lesser races and monsters. Through the Ba'etith, they studied and recorded the magic of primitive races around them and recorded the knowledge in the items known as the Nether Scrolls. Unlike them, the fey never established an empire, instead choosing to reign in Faerie, an otherworldly realm with only loose links to Faerûn. While they dwelled in Faerûn's forests and woodlands, they did so in harmony with nature and hence had little impact. Humans, while they were certainly present, did not rule at all. While the very earliest human cultures began here, they did so under the dominance of the creator races, divided and ignorant of one another.

In elven oral tradition and legends, these were the Days of Thunder, a time when immense empires of callous and inhuman reptilian, amphibian, and avian beings dominated the much warmer lands of Abeir-Toril. They were said to have erected towering cities of glass and stone, crisscrossed the wild lands with shining roads. They tamed the great dinosaurs and experimented with the unrefined and unimaginably powerful magic that existed at the time, commanding powers that rival gods. But also they waged endless genocidal wars against one another in their mutual hatred, their mages launching blasts that annihilated armies and mountains alike.

According to the elves, as befits their "creator" appellation, they toyed with creating new lifeforms and released them into the world—even the most monstrous and mistaken and no matter how unnatural. Many perished in the jungles, but enough survived and they and the humans even evolved minds and learned of the gods. These lesser races wisely hid from the creators deep in the forests or in caves high in the mountains, and hence would outlive them all when their doom came. Elven sages had many different theories about the creator races' sudden downfalls, but all accepted a swift climate change had rendered the world barely habitable to creator races and dinosaurs, and most thought it a catastrophe of their own making. The elves believed Chauntea, Corellon, and other deities first manifested during this time to aid the lesser races and foil the creator races. Moander's Netherese faithful held that the Rotting God appeared at the mountains they called Moander's Footstep and poisoned the creator races' food and water, causing them to die out. A draconic or demonic power was thought to have concocted a potent plague that caused the fey civilization to break apart.

After the creation of the planet Abeir-Toril, that world had a great Ice Age, which ended in approximately −35,000 DR. At this time, the continent of Faerûn did not yet exist; instead, Faerûn was joined with Kara-Tur, Maztica, and Zakhara as part of Merrouroboros.

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