When was The Burn formed?

[ZooExorcist]

Tried looking it up based on Solus's response to it, but it's worded as if it had already been there long enough that no one knows/mentions who lived there previously.

[Cleretic]

Third Astral Era, it was an Allagan thing, which is why we find their mining facility under it. Plausibly--although I believe not confirmably--it was drained by the launch of Azys Lla.

Solus lied about the cause to stoke fears of primals.

[Kranel_San]

Third Astral Era, it was an Allagan thing, which is why we find their mining facility under it. Plausibly--although I believe not confirmably--it was drained by the launch of Azys Lla.

Solus lied about the cause to stoke fears of primals.

I find it pretty weird to have a large, empty desert where nobody lives in it for over thousands of years. Only for an emperor from far away to come over and say: "Yo! A primal did it!"

Like, this desert here existed long before your empire.

[Cilia]

Third Astral Era, it was an Allagan thing, which is why we find their mining facility under it. Plausibly--although I believe not confirmably--it was drained by the launch of Azys Lla.

Solus lied about the cause to stoke fears of primals.

Close - it had it's aetherial circulation cut off by the device found in the House of the Crooked Coin in order to prepare it for launch as Azys Lla. Y'shtola more or less confirms it by use of her special eyes after said device is deactivated during the lead-in to Shadowbringers (4.4 - Prelude in Violet). It will recover, but that's going to take a long, long time.

I find it pretty weird to have a large, empty desert where nobody lives in it for over thousands of years. Only for an emperor from far away to come over and say: "Yo! A primal did it!"

Like, this desert here existed long before your empire.

That was kind of the point of it, though. Solus' cult of personality would believe anything he told them, but there's no plausible way a general turned statesman from a faraway land could know what created the Burn when even the people who live nearby have no clue.

One of the easily poked holes in the Imperial narrative.

[DPZ2]

Ummmm... You do realize that the "emperor from far away", Solus zos Galvus, was the current incarnation of one of the three remaining True(tm) Ascians, right?