The Awakening

The Awakening is a universal term for both the name of the global apocalypse level event (which ended Earth before and began Oera after) and the moment in history where humans unlocked new found supernatual abilities.

There is barely any information about The Awakening other than it lasted for over 100 years, natural disasters purged the old world for decades before settling to leave relatively habitable conditions.

It's popularly believed that because of these extreme and harsh conditions, humans experienced an "Awakening" within themselves and were able to tap into previously dormant abilities in order to survive as a species. Some are known as artanguis (blood skills which are formed from a person's genetic makeup) and artellum (elemental skills which are formed by harmoniously combining energies of one's self and the natural world around them).

The cause of The Awakening event is unknown, and may never truly be understood. There are tales that the people of the old world lost control of technology which makes the people of Oera wary of it's presense and use. Others say that people of the old world damaged the planet to such an extent that it purged humanity to heal itself. And another group believe that it was the result of a world wide war unlike any other that ended a golden age of human civilisation.