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 is 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 the animals on Valtia became unruly and 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

The cataclysm that destroyed Valtia was something the world had never seen before.

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, fiery fountains spewing their leathal load of hot ash, molten rock, volcanic bombs, and toxic fumes a thousand feet into the air. Great rents opened in the earth, swallowing palaces, temples, halls, and entire towns. Lakes boiled or turned to acid and a rain of countless meteors hailed down on the isle, all causing death and destruction beyond imagination.

Subsequently, an angry and hungry tornado-maelstrom appeared which gripped the island and send it to the bottom of the sea.

The whole of the cataclysm took place within a couple of minutes. In that short time span the proud island of Valtia - home to dragons and to sorcerers of unrivaled skill - was utterly destroyed and gone forever. The ancient, mighty Free State was gone in an instant, the fabled Viking empire vanished within the blink of an eye. The island's inhabitants didn't stand the slightest bit of a chance.

The Why

To this very day it is a mystery why Valtia was destroyed.