Frost 74th, 121 - Morning - Just as the hustle and bustle of a day in Kalzasi is underway, Kalzasi has a day where the clouds are dense and light, but no snow is falling and the winds are quiet. In central Karnor, a vicious blizzard is underway, and rumors of the airship, the Merry Behemoth and its escort, the dragon rider Kisorika Novalys, going missing have begun to spread through the city. However, in the quiet of the day, a loud, thundering crack and boom reverberate all through the city, sending the vibrations for many miles in all directions. For those looking at Lake Udori at the time, they would see one of the Astralar Peaks, one known as the Hooked Beak, sheared off of the mountain and sent a cascade of stone and snow in a vicious avalanche, which wiped out the village of Shanwei, a fishing village of a few hundred people, entirely in an instant.
The avalanche continued into the lake, crashing through the ice that had formed overtop of it. This caused a massive tidal surge to head toward Kalzasi. The surge bulged and shattered the ice of Lake Udoria, racing toward the harbor as though moved by a massive beast. Two minutes after the avalanche, the tidal surge struck Kalzasi's lake harbor. Villages all along the eastern edge of Udori and in the immediate proximity of Kalzasi will be hit hard with flooding and many ships and structures will be damaged by both the water and ice. Kalzasi harbor will be hit incredibly hard as well, crippling many of the ships there. The death toll is not immediately known, but it is suspected to be measured in the thousands. The damage to Kalzasi's naval fleet and its fishing industries will take years to recover from.
In this moment of natural disaster, the question falls on those in charge just as much as it falls on those on the ground. How will you help? How might you turn this to your advantage? Or perhaps, how might you ignore it?
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