Cendorvael was a Kendor scholar writing in the early Modern Era, within living memory of the Hykravones (the Shattering, 10,209 BSD). His people had observed the event from an unusual geographic position, and he devoted his career to assembling every account of the Shattering's mechanics — what it looked like from different distances, what it did to the leyline network, and why the Kendor cosmological tradition's predictions had partially but not fully anticipated it.