No living scholar possesses the complete account of the Veil’s final moments. The oldest histories agree on only a few things: the Guardian fell, the Veil broke, and Aether returned to Talvara.
It did not return evenly. Across much of the world there were lights in the sky, impossible sounds, awakened relics, and frightened people discovering powers remembered only in stories.
Elsewhere, the return was catastrophic. Land fractured. Living things changed. Places that had survived centuries were altered in moments. Some scars have never healed.
Modern Talvara was born from that night. Its nations still live among consequences they understand only in fragments.