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 From the beginning, it appears as if the Tarrans were a portal-building culture. They were disinterested in colonization, instead exerting mastery over time and space and punching through dimensions with the intent of gathering resources and improving infrastructure across and between their vast cavern networks. The portal frames found in [[settings:cahyali:nulllabyrinth#acheron_pits|the Acheron Pits]] have lingering magical energy, with signatures varying from the [[settings:planes:beneath|Beneath]] to the [[settings:planes:dreaming|Dreaming]], and even [[settings:jaern|Jaern]]. Several other hypothesized Cefa'zisto worlds are also thought to have touched the portals.
-Many portal mechanisms' ruins are covered with a strange, rootless flower-like organism and are dripping with a caustic black ooze, which has failed to be successfully analyzed by any magical or physical techniques. Archaeologists studying Tarra mostly agree that these are extraplanar, even perhaps being [[settings:planes#the_void|voidic]] in origin. These flowers resemble those told about in gnomish legends; meaning they have some connection to the event in the early 8000s which forced the gnomes from the Dreaming back to the Cefa'zisto.
+Many portal mechanisms' ruins are covered with a strange, rootless flower-like organism and are dripping with a caustic black ooze, which has failed to be successfully analyzed by any magical or physical techniques. Archaeologists studying Tarra mostly agree that these are extraplanar, even perhaps being [[settings:planes#the_void|voidic]] in origin. These flowers resemble those told about in gnomish legends; meaning they have some connection to the [[history:cahyali#return_of_the_gnomes|calamity in the early 8000s]] which forced the gnomes from the Dreaming back to the Cefa'zisto.
 The strongest theory as to the fall of Tarra hypothesizes that, at one point, the portal-builders tunneled their way into the wrong plane, or in between planes. Some force or entity there retaliated and invaded Tarra, steadily destroying the entirety of the civilization and even pouring through any portals the people opened in attempts to escape.
 One theory additionally states that the strange spatial state of the Null Labyrinth was triggered as a last-ditch Tarran failsafe - all intra-Tarra portals were collapsed at once, destabilizing the entire Labyrinth's place in physical space and leading to the ever-changing state of its locations. This is supported by the fact that the only fixed areas within the Labyrinth appear to be major Tarran ruin sites.