Weird showerthought, I think we've been approaching the fate of the Aumarotines as a Cosmic Horror Story of sorts, and it certainly is akin to that, what with the whole eldritch horror angle, but the thing is that those horrors came form within the Aumrotines and manifested via their magics. As such I wonder if the Ascians' backstory, the original umbral calamity, is instead of a more traditional archetype, and one already used with Allag. A tale of a grand civilization felled by its own hubris. what if there was some drawback (like the idea of draining the planet from its aether in massive amounts as I alluded to before) that made their creation magics dangerous even on this scale.