Ark

By the time of the present moment, no one remained alive from the Ark. What remained was its physical remnant: the bones of a colossal serpent floating in emptiness, appearing from afar like a flawlessly white ring devouring its own tail.^[1]

Main article: Ark Amulets

Ark Amulets were enchanted lockets that contained a small pocket dimension of its own, its inhabitants frozen in time, created as lesser versions of the Ark and entrusted to seven champions to preserve the remaining River People.^[2]

Its destruction was tied to the fate of the Great River. When Cronos broke the Great River, it set in motion events that would destroy the Ark one day. As the River began to dry up—starting from the Estuary—the Ark became unmoored, and the sorcery that sustained it was left without a source, leaving its people without a safe harbor. When its inhabitants emerged, they found the Tomb of Ariel alien and unsustainable for human life, with no adequate source of sustenance and filled with dangers. The Ark had once sheltered a population, but survival became impossible: not the entire population of the Ark could be sustained, and they faced extinction as they fought daily against starvation and harrowing abominations that now filled the River.^[1]

• The Ark outlasted Verge, but eventually collapsed as well, since Time doesn't spare anyone, and everything falls to its tyranny.^[1]