Valtias Forlǫg

The Storjarla Ástríðr of Ettlingar Freyu after learning that Valtia is going to be destroyed.

A Valtian couple during the cataclysm that destroyed Valtia.

A humongous tornado-maelstrom pulling the Isle of Valtia to the bottom of the sea.

Valtia having been swallowed by the sea.

Valtias Forlǫg means Valtia's Fate in the Froyalanish and Wintergleamish languages. It is the name of the cataclysm that caused the destruction of the Isle of Valtia and the subsequent collapse of the Valtian Free State which had, prior to the Forlǫg, been prospering for thousands of years.

About

Valtia was destroyed when it sank into the sea on a winter night in the cataclysmic event which known as the Valtias Forlǫg nearly a thousand years ago. None of the inhabitants of Valtia survived its destruction, save for a few families who left Valtia just before its destruction.

Forewarning

Several events warned of the impending catastrophe: two days before the disaster some immense columns of flame appeared, five days previously to that all birds fled the island, and in the forthnight prior to the cataclysm fishermen complained that all fish seemed to have disappeared.

The House of Ettlingar Freyu escaped the disaster because the Lady Freyja had forewarned them and told them to flee to the Mysterious Isles.

The Cataclysm

In the middle of the night when most people were sleeping tight, very shortly after the ships of the forewarned escapees had departed from the Isle of Valtia, all over the island innumerable volcanoes popped up like mushrooms and started erupting violently, spewing their leathal load of hot ash, burning rocks, lava and toxic fumes. At the same time a rain of countless meteors hailed down on the isle causing more death and destruction. Subsequently, a tornado-maelstrom appeared which sucked the island to the bottom of the sea.

This all happened within a couple of minutes and that short time span the proud island utterly was destroyed and gone forever. Its inhabitants didn't stand the slightest bit of a chance.