Hollow Era
- Major Events
- The Aethyr Explosion
- Aethyr Afterglow
- The Dark Ages
- Aethyr Miasma
- Ends when the first Astral Bodies are formed (Aethyr Stars)
- Abbreviation
- HE
- Length
- ~150 million years
- Timeline
- Genesis Timeline
- Real-World Allegory
- Big Bang, Creation of the Universe, the Dark Ages
- Raveni Standard Date
- -11,700,606,300
- Length (Years)
- 150,000,000
- Years Ago
- 11,700,608,690 years
The Hollow Era is the first era of the Genesis Timeline, and the earliest stretch of time that Geminaea’s histories try to describe. It began more than eleven billion years ago and lasted around 150 million years, a span in which there was Aethyr but nothing yet built from it. Scholars compare it to a universe at its very beginning: a burst of creation followed by a long, empty dark.
Major Events
Section titled “Major Events”- The Aethyr Explosion: the outpouring of Aethyr that opens the era.
- Aethyr Afterglow: the fading light of that first release.
- The Dark Ages: a long age in which nothing shines.
- Aethyr Miasma: Aethyr lingering as a formless haze, not yet gathered into anything.
- The first Astral Bodies: the era ends when Aethyr gathers into the first stars, the Aethyr Stars.
Legacy
Section titled “Legacy”Everything that follows depends on what the Hollow Era set in motion. Scholars trace the Aethyr that fills the realm back to the explosion that opened it, and the stars that close it are the first places where that energy settled into lasting form. Some sages see in its long darkness a lesson about the patience of creation.