Fall of Baz

Overview

The Fall of Baz is the destructive sack of Baz, remembered in exhibit and lexicon accounts for the burning of its library and the collapse of imperial power. It is frequently treated as a historical touchstone in scholarly writing and public displays.

Preceding Context

Exhibit sequences on the Hylaean Way present Baz at the height of imperial achievement—monuments, armies, roads, a famed library, and a powerful ark advising rulers—then culminate in the calamity. These depictions place the Fall millennia in the past and following a period of Bazian ascendancy.

What Happens

Available accounts identify the event as a sack in which the city was overrun and its library burned. The attackers, causes, and detailed chronology have not been identified in the material available so far.

Aftermath/Consequences

• Lexical sources such as The Dictionary use “the Fall of Baz” as a watershed for later usage (e.g., how “extramuros” was understood during subsequent periods of turmoil).
• Accounts from Cartasia describe early avout who personally witnessed the Fall—and knew Ma Cartas—trekking across forests and mountains to found Elkhazg, illustrating the dispersal of people and preservation of knowledge in the wake of the catastrophe.
• The Bazian religious tradition endured beyond the catastrophe; “Bazian Orthodox” is described as the state religion of the Bazian Empire that survived the Fall and continued into later ages, with monasteries and retreat centers still active in the present Bazian Church.

Status

A completed historical event referenced across exhibits and texts as a pivot between eras. Specific participants and dates remain unspecified in the sources available so far.