Peace established; guilty nations pardoned. The continents retreated into a period of isolation. Each people group returned to its roots, and a cultural Realignment took place in which each of the continents learned to celebrate again the traits that had made them once great and admirable states. 

  The sea became a sort of relic: an unapproachable monument. That generation of Terra never again touched the wide waters. Decades passed, old wounds healed and what could not be cured was forgotten, and the Seafolk were never seen again.