Cruel Winter

The Cruel Winter was an exceptionally harsh season in 789-790 AGC. Nuimucand was blanketed by snow, even just below the Aelava Mountains, where it only snows "once in a thousand years". Parts of the seas completely froze, and since the harsh weather had begun early in autumn, a lot of the crops had failed. Famine razed the continent, and half the population of some cities died out. Only the southern portion of the Janaal peninsula got through the Cruel Winter without snow, and this was also the only region that experienced no famine over the course of half a year. Winter finally died out for most of Nuimacand in late spring. The Causherren peninsula, in the far north of the continent, experienced snowfall until early summer.

It is not known whether Sirnacand had a similar dire situation during the Cruel Winter.