Board Thread:Middle Earth Roleplays/@comment-25344655-20151222005241

Not many know exactly what happened. One moment, the world was having troubles dealing with a mad Dwarven clan, and the next the entire continent was torn to bits in an explosion that would make an atom bomb look positively adorable. The detonation, focussed around the city of Minas Tirith, had a radius as far north as the far edge of the Misty Mountains. But the shock wave and massive fires spread even further than that. Civilizations toppled, and nobody is quite sure what happened. Well, almost nobody. Various parts of the world were sunk, or became irradiated. Lands burned and burned. Riverbeds dried up. Crops became irradiated. People suffered radiation sickness. Everybody was effected. Gondor was entirely decimated, as was Rohan and Arnor and Angmar and even the Shire. The Blue Dwarves and Durin's folk were heavily injured. The few Elves left in Lindon were also hit fairly hard, the survivors fleeing into the north. The Elves in Mirkwood were hit even harder as their forest burned down.

Massive fires swept through the plains of Rhun, killing tens of thousands. Near Harad and Umbar were sunk. The Moredain suffered greatly from fire and famine.

The Men of Forochel were forced to migrate further north as their lands melted. The Orcs have been all but wiped out, much like the Elves. Only those to the far east in Rhun and the far south in Harad made it out  The Tauredain have weathered the storm, as have the Limwaith. The Moredain and Half-Trolls were hit hard, but not destroyed. The Dwarves of the Orocarni have made it out perfectly fine. Many of Durin's folk and the Blue Dwarves were killed, but there are still some fortresses remaining. Of the Mirkwood Elves there are only about 100 survivors, and of the Noldorin only 273 survived. Of the Mirkwood Elves there are only about 100 survivors, and of the Noldorin only 273 survived. The Avari have nearly completely died off, either killed in the huge plains-sweeping fires or having fled to th Orocarni. The eastern tribes of Rhun are still kicking, and even some of the more resilient western ones.  