Bronze Age Collapse

The Bronze Age Collapse was a cataclysmic event that took place approximately six thousand years ago.

Prior to the Collapse, the Kingdom of Astellia was still a part of Albion, located on an eponymous continent hundreds of miles to the east of Latveria. Due to its distance from the mainland, visitors to the kingdom were few; small handfuls of settlers left Astellia over the years to explore new horizons.

However, during the events of the Departure, the Astellian king at the time succumbed to fear and paranoia, calling upon the divine power of Merodii and Makari to remove Astellia from Albion and cast it into the sky. This involved forcibly ripping the landmass of Astellia from Albion's surface, along with a huge chunk of the land beneath it. This left an enormous crater in the seafloor, which resulted in cataclysmic waves that traveled in all directions and ravaged all they touched to the point of complete desolation, ushering in the Age of Darkness.