Day of Wrath

The Day of Wrath, also called the First Burning of the World was enacted by Shilah, Lady Sun. It drove out the magic from the place which was later known as the Burning Sands.

Precedents
The Jinn Lord, Kaleel, aided by his brothers, the Kaleel's Legion, toppling the Moon Kaleel and casting him into eternity of quiet slumber. A horde of jinn invaded the night sky, dousing thousands of stars and capturing the rest, imprisoning the evening heavens. With the dawn, Shilah, the Sun, was trapped within a prison built of their awful face, quickly fallen into madness. Within one cycle, Kaleel and his Legion had captured the world, and began the First Jinn War.

Resistance
Ashalan and human were forced to work together against a common foe, their own progenitors, the Jinn, who had enslaved them. The Council of Twelve discovered the secret of sandsmithing, and constructed swords made of crysteel, which could cut through the insubstantial bodies of the Jinn like flesh. Eventually they stumbled upon a fabulous magic, a sigil made of light and smoke that formed a map of all known magic, the Hakhim's Seal, which allowed to contact with Shilah. The humans only sought a new ally in their fight against the Jinn, a way to end the awful cataclysm approaching. They never anticipated that their actions would urge it forward.

Day of Wrath
Awakened from her lunacy, Shilah witnessed the Jinn through the veracity of the Seal, and calling upon all the power keeping her sane lashed out across the beautiful terrain she had brought into being. In one climactic moment, the world dissolved around the Jinn, Ashalan, and humans. Magic touched by her wrath was consumed to add to the destruction, ripped away from those who would use it for their own selfish desire. Minor beings Jinn subsisting upon the land and within the air, and Ashalan both young and weak were obliterated in a flash of Shilah's grace. Those who thrived from magic and lived were forced out of Shilah's sight: the Ashalan fled into the earth, and the last thousand Jinn bound themselves into service with the humans or fled beyond the boundaries of the world. This day the First Jinn War ended.

Burning Sands
What once had been a lush land was barrened, becoming a desert. In that cataclysmic event, only the Nahr'umar river survived. The sands still surged with residual energies originated that day.

Kaleel
Kaleel and his brothers were severely weakened and fell into a long sleep within the Blighted Realms, the Black Earth.

Thousand Jinns
The humans and other Younger Races eventually summoned members of the last thousand Jinn, rousing them from their long sleep. The Jinn were bound by human ritual becoming servants or even mere slaves of their will, their lifeline after the Day of Wrath and the source of their hostility to the humans.

Magic
All that thrived with magic disappeared from the Shila's eye. The Hakhim's Seal allowed to use it and the first Sahir appeared. Magical artifacts were crafted from the sand that was originally scorched by the Sun, which had remnants of her power, as the Khadja and the Crystal Hourglass of Laramun.

Ashalan
The Ashalan tattooes gained the power of the Sun. It allowed the Ashalan to became the most powerful Sahir in the Burning Sands. But it if exposed during enough time under the Shilah's Wrath, the light of the sun, they weakened and die. The Ashalan were obliged to live in the shadows and built the City of the Seventh Star beneath the surface of the place known as Medinaat al-Salaam.

The Naga
Three quarters of the Naga race was destroyed. With their Akasha, the mind-hive, this kind of destruction could doom the entire race, unable to forget the sudden loss of many of their kind. The Ashalan used the magic to remove this memory from them, but with a drawback. When the Naga realized the destruction, and without knowledge about what really had happened, blamed against the Ashalan as the only responsibles, beginning their Blood Feud.

Humans
Several groups of human wandered the Burning Sands looking for water and farmable land. The Senpet were established in a delta of the Nahr'umar river, other group found the inland part of the river, the founding place of Medinaat al-Salaam, the Jewel of the Desert.