Great Tuhran Flood

Disaster / Destruction

A fault line lies under the Strait of Uketya. It's not a through line, so it doesn't rumble as often as, for example, the Ugo-yt and Wlitowaru'u Faults. However, the effects of most fault lines in Wouraiya either are either ineffective or rendered so by the surrounding environment. Few faults neighbor such vulnerable lands as northwest Tuhra.   The northwest of Tuhra is at or slightly above sea level for miles inland, so the flood resulting from the rumbling Fault of Uketya wiped out even inland towns. Because it was unexpected, the disaster killed thousands, leaving only hundreds homeless. The seawater poisoned the soil, and the once-fertile plains became marshland. Tuhra experienced a massive famine regionally and a mild famine nationwide. It was this famine that, in the minds of the leadership and the populace, justified Tuhra's acts of military aggression. Evil had befallen them; it was only fair that evil would befall others in equal amounts.   While an equally strong tsunami headed to the north, the sand bars of southwestern Unterritory lie far below the main dwellings. A few houses were demolished, but enough remained to rebuild civilization. Some became so successful at housing refugees that they were expanded into large apartment complexes. Colonists who left their homelands in Tuhra became the last vestiges of their local culture, and of their lineages. In an equal fashion, Unterritory culture had its ties forcefully cut off from Tuhran culture, and the two vestiges of civilization began to drift apart. When the Keyrit wave of colonization passed through Unterritory, the newcomers were labeled as allies against the wilderness, instead of as imperial oppressors as the Tuhrans saw it.   Harvests from northwest Tuhra were used mainly to feed the eastern Tuhran cities, which held the monopoly on trade. A flood affecting a satellite of a suburb of a distant trading outpost was hardly newsworthy. It didn't reach the ears of monarchs until months later, and even then it seemed to trifling to care about. No aid was sent. Foreign emissaries, oblivious to Tuhra's true feelings, continued to court diplomats in the hopes of good relations, but the leadership continued to plot their self-appointed rivals' demises.