World Sundering: Difference between revisions

** Thousands of years prior to the events of Warcraft, the War of the Ancients lead to an event called The Sundering, where the Well of Eternity imploded, blowing up half the world's landmass, and splitting the one continent into three.

** Also, the planet Draenor, where Orcs are originally from, was torn apart by the use of too many portals, turning a once beautiful world into a [[Floating Continent]] in space.

* This is being planned for ''[[Guild Wars]] II''.

** It already happened once in the backstory to [[Guild Wars]], with the City of the Gods being destroyed in a last-ditch attempt to stop the Charr invasion. The entire nation ends up a broken string of uninhabited islands.

* Used in the meta-plot of ''[[.hack]]'''s second series of games. In The World 2's backstory, a war between the humans, elves, and gods happened that destroyed the old towns and landmarks to make new ones.

* ''[[Oracle of Tao]]'', in the ''first scene''! The world is split into [[Earth All Along|Earth]] and [[Dark World|the Void]].

** '[[Video Game]]/'[[Tales of the Abyss]]'' has a very weird variation. While {{spoiler|the [[Big Bad]] is the one who gets the ball rolling, it's your party that finishes the job.}}

** ''[[Tales of Legendia]]'' has this as part of its backstory, ''twice''. To wit: {{spoiler|the world was once entirely ocean. Then the Orerines came along and used the Wings of Light to create an entire continent. At some later point, the Ferines got ahold of the Wings of Light and used it to ''destroy'' half of that continent.}} This is a bit of an odd example in that none of the gameplay even takes place on the continent in question.