Golden Age

As the Star-Gazers who worshipped the Stars, their most important task was finding a way home. The path of the earliest astrologers emerged among the Star-Gazers. They frequently peered into the cosmos in hopes of finding their way home, and learned the earliest magic from the Crystalians of Giant's Peak.

The research-loving Star-Gazers also developed many Origin Magics. Along the way, many Star-Gazer Sorcerers caught glimpses of Outer Gods from the depths of the cosmos.

They were ancient, powerful beings of the cosmos—great entities beyond the imagination of mortal creatures, standing above the laws of the universe.

Thus, after glimpsing their indescribable true forms, the Star-Gazer astrologers dropped dead on the spot, one after another.

Even so, the Star-Gazers' curiosity remained undeterred. They truly embodied the spirit of being content to die that evening after hearing the Way that morning.

The Star-Gazers developed more and more varieties of magic. Yet whether because they had peered too often upon those mysterious, great beings or because they had triggered some taboo, a massive meteor crashed toward the Lands Between. The Dark Star Beasts of the Consecrated Snowfield and the Dark Spawn that destroyed the Eternal City were both star beasts carried within that meteor.

Compared to the meteor that had brought the Golden Tree and the Elden Beast, this meteor caused by the Star-Gazers was nothing short of a catastrophe.

Its impact sank half of the Lands Between.

That world-ending force stole the Star-Gazers' night sky and smashed their people from the surface into the underground. The Siofra River and Ainsel River were turned directly into subterranean rivers in that catastrophe.

At the same time, the Golden Tree, which had been steadily accumulating strength in preparation for a showdown with the Six Gods and Destined Death, was utterly dumbfounded. Not only was