Ashfall

In the ash-blanketed world of Scadrial, the relentless Ashfall from the ominous Ashmounts defines the Final Empire's grim existence, coating everything in a perpetual layer of sooty black flakes that skaa laborers tirelessly clear from streets under a ruddy sun. By The Hero of Ages, this ceaseless deluge escalates into a cataclysmic smothering force, accumulating in half-foot-deep drifts that blacken landscapes, kill vegetation, and signal the planet's impending doom amid stagnant heat and a fractured sky. This evolution of Ashfall from mundane oppression to apocalyptic harbinger underscores the unraveling of Preservation's desperate gambit, culminating in the world's near-extinction before Sazed's reforging of the planet.