YMMV / A Day of Fallen Night

• Genius Bonus: The depiction of a volcanic winter is fairly accurate. When the Dreadmount erupts, Tunuva and her companions observe an enormous amount of ejecta. This enters the atmosphere, blocking enough light from the sun to interfere with seasonal temperature changes and plant growth, which results in harvest failures worldwide. The people on the other side of the world have no clue what's going on until they're told what's going on by a dragon, which makes everyone's fear and discontent worse (mirroring times in Earth's history when eruptions on one side of the planet threw a monkey wrench into civilizations on the other). In fact, the descriptions by various characters make it sound like the year 536, which has been called the worst year ever (and an appropriate base for a time that would later be called the Grief of Ages).

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