Age of Rest

Synopsis
The Age of Rest was a period of about 800 years, which ended about 200 years prior the campaign, wherein magic was almost completely dormant in Materi, and the world endured a dark age in the wake of the Gods' War.

Age Range
The Age of Rest lasted a period of 774 years, from 984 years prior to the campaign (0 AR) to 210 years prior to the campaign (774 AR).

Ley Phases in the Age of Rest
After the Gods' War and the Severance, the magic of Materi fell into a state of almost complete dormancy, as Primordial Chaos and the Weave spent centuries recovering from the extreme amounts of magic that were siphoned by the war.

Few accounts were made of Ley Phases and Zeniths during the majority of the Age of Rest. In the first decades after the Severance, however, surviving mages kept accounts of the Ley Phases. These accounts reveal a stark and dramatic transformation from the daily Prime Zeniths of the Age of Arcana. In the first centuries of the Age of Rest, a Zenith only occurred once in every few decades. A Prime Zenith was a once-in-a-century phenomenon. The result was a world nearly devoid of magic. Even experienced, high-level mages found themselves sapped of magical power and resources, and for many decades, magic was all but dead in Materi.

In the last century of the Age of Rest, as Primordial Chaos began to reawaken, Ley Phases began to accelerate exponentially. Though they didn't approach anything resembling the near-constant magical pulsation of the Age of Arcana, a Zenith became an event that could be expected on a monthly basis, with a small number of Prime Zeniths each year.

Geopolitics During the Age of Rest
For the first few centuries of the Age of Rest, Materi remained divided, as the great kingdoms and states of Materi withdrew into isolation and recovery from the great war. The appetite for war was almost universally gone, as the world had seen the results of the magical arms race that took place at the end of the Age of Arcana.

As the world began to rebuild and flourish, however, the great powers of Materi had to once again decide how they would interact with one another. With the memory of the Gods' War still relatively fresh, the largest and most powerful civilization of Materi joined to form the Alviren Empire, in an effort to promote a lasting peace. This peace successfully held steadfast over the course of the Age of Rest, and into the Age of Awakening.