The Emergence

This is the point from which the current era is measured.

Before the Emergence, there is no evidence of any species other than the Akarieans; then, for almost no reason at all, the Akarieans disappeared, leaving only their shattered cites and relics scattered across the world. A few years later, clusters of other species started to appear in random places in groups of between 10 and 50. As different areas had a higher density of one race than the other, the less common races were either forced to move on or eked out.