Terrible Events

Overview

Terrible Events is a label for a world‑spanning catastrophe or turbulent span whose particulars are obscure. In mathic and lay usage it serves as a major divider between eras, commonly marking the end of the Praxic Age and the beginning of the reforms grouped under the Reconstitution. References frequently mention it alongside the Harbingers, emphasizing its role as a boundary rather than a described incident.

Preceding Context

• Periodization: Accounts of late Praxic history routinely frame developments as occurring "before the Terrible Events." Speakers also use it as a rhetorical dividing line when summarizing the evolution of the Sæcular Power across ages.
• Example of usage: Geographic and exploratory milestones are dated with this marker (e.g., achievements placed in “the last century before the Terrible Events”), illustrating its function as a chronological anchor.

What Happens

Available sources characterize it in dictionary‑style terms as a worldwide catastrophe with sparse records and contested details, often attributed to human causes. Specific triggers, duration, and sequence remain unspecified in the material presented so far.

Some reference glosses describe the so‑called Everything Killers as weapons of unusual praxic sophistication thought to have been used to devastating effect during the Terrible Events; this belief is widely held but unproved in current sources.

Contemporary technical descriptions (reported, unverified) outline how such devices might have worked: a micro‑scale reactor inert until triggered by cues such as body heat, respiration, voice, timers, genetic markers, or a radio signal’s presence or absence. When activated, it emits intense neutron radiation intended to kill living organisms within a localized radius, with lethal range depending on exposure time. Delivery methods are described as varied—any vehicle or dispersal method could be used—with some accounts proposing orbital seeding of many small units too small for standard radar to detect. These details remain hypotheses rather than established facts.

Aftermath/Consequences

• Boundary function: Treated as the hinge into the Reconstitution, after which rites, Discipline, and institutions are described in renewed forms.
• Instructional usage: Period labels in teaching and reference place adjacent eras as the Rebirth, the Praxic Age, and the Terrible Events, with the exact particulars of the Terrible Events left deliberately vague in surviving accounts.
• Attribution and segregation (widely stated, unproved): A prevalent view holds that theors’ complicity in the development of such praxes contributed to the resolve to segregate theorical practice from non‑theorical society; when implemented, that policy became synonymous with the Reconstitution. Current material preserves this as an attribution reported in sources rather than a settled fact.