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= The Severed Period=
After the repeated and deadly attacks by spawn of '''The Genesishydra''', '''Monsterkind''' and humanoid relationships are more strained than ever. This dire situation comes to a head when a '''Monsterkind''' attempt a powerful ascension rite and rather than sacrificing one of their own to power it, capture dozens of '''Light Worshipers''' to fuel their bloody magics.
To be brief, the ritual does not go according to plan. Those that participate do gain immense power, but with their ascension, they broke a fundamental link within them. Each monster (intelligent or not) feels it intimately. Monsterkind are no longer linked in that indescribable primal way to their ultimate progenitor, '''The Genesishyrdra'''. From that day on, they are the Severed.
Angry and traumatized by this hereditary shunning, the Severed razed the countryside, smashing what civilization they found and enslaving those that they did not trample. This act was led by the fierce, now nearly feral '''Bar-gar'''. After becoming Severed, he named '''Monsterkind''' the rulers of the land and himself king and their power was enough to almost instantaneously overwhelm the remnants of the '''Monster Hunter's Guild'''. Besides sundering the oldest Guild, he also outlawed all worship of the Light. Some scholars suspect that the mad ruler was motivated by trying to become reunited with their ancestral lineage, but if that was the case, they never succeeded.

== The Multi-Headed Cult Year 910==
A group of monsters, seeking to reclaim the lost connection they possessed to the Genesishydra, become a religious group known as '''The Many-Headed Cult''', who revere the mother of '''Monsterkind''' as a deity. They perform occult sacrifices, even among their own kind, causing them to be shunned further among '''Monsterkind.''' A small connection does become established, but its effects prove volatile and dangerous, mutating the participants into a powerful yet feral state, stripping them of any humanoid intelligence they may have possessed. They refer to this ritual as "'''The Reawakening'''", and the practice becomes taboo among many monsters.

== Battle of the Severed Year 920==
Eventually, '''The Many-headed Cult''' is reasonably successful in its goals. Through dark and vile rituals, many '''Monsterkind''' manage to become more powerful and devise ways to corrupt other members of '''Monsterkind''' with vapors. Hordes of feral monsterkind poured across the land, consuming everything in their wake. This also led to '''Monsterkind''' becoming much less prominent in society, and the few that didn't go into hiding developed tools to prevent corruption, though they were never able to reverse its effects. 

The '''Monster Hunter's Guild''' took up arms against the horde, and after many months of bloody warfare, they managed to finally put an end to the cult, though both '''Monster Hunter''' and '''Monsterkind''' faced heavy casualties. No one but the guild is truly certain of the fate of the cult, and there are always rumors of cult involvement every time something bad happens. 

While people across the land are glad to be rid of the cult and the horde, this ultimately raises tensions regarding the power of the '''Monster Hunter's Guild''' and the presence of '''Monsterkind''' in society.