One of the most destructive events that has ever happened in the history of Sobsia, the Great Fires were, if the sources are to be believed, started in the Old Quarter of the city, when a merchant’s wagon carrying oil was lit aflame during the Feast of Suzanna, the then Queen of the city.
The Inferno quickly overwhelmed the city, burning down, in some accounts, up to forty percent of the city, including the old palace built during the height of the Age of Magic, as well as their annex of the Grand Library of Lavellor, the second biggest library of Rhaedwyn.
There are, however, other accounts that tell of a Darksworn infiltrating the commercial warehouse of the city at night and setting fire to a wooden workshop. The fires spread over the city, and the Old Palace, supposedly a floating palace, crashed into the ground and into the flames as Darksworn sabotaged the Aethercraft keeping it afloat.
A third account, which like the others was written six centuries after the event, narrates a different story: that one of the students of what would later become the High Academy of Sorcery was experimenting with the Wellspring, and in an hour of untempered ambition, madness, or perhaps the whispers in between, lost control of the spell, starting a magical fire that scarred the city to this day.