![]() Today, the Consulate continues to encourage the optimistic and creative environment that the Great Aether Boom helped to foster. It was a time of frenzied invention, boundless hope, and wondrous celebration. The people of Kaladesh, many of whom were inventors and craftspeople, now had access to power beyond their dreams. Much to the pleasure of the consuls, the plane-wide availability of aether spurred what has come to be known as the Great Aether Boom. Safe collection techniques were established, airships were commissioned for transportation, and aether pipelines were constructed to carry the refined energy directly to homes. The Consulate developed methods for mass production and distribution of refined aether. Mere months after Avaati Vya's first successful refinement, Kaladesh's largest governing organization, known as the Consulate, saw the opportunity to ensure that the power of aether was made accessible to all. This allows people to harness the power of aether without risking life and limb. The refinement process she developed separates the charged, energy-rich component of aether from its volatile, reactive component. Six decades ago, the world-renowned aetherologist Avaati Vya cracked the aether code. It was always clear to the people of Kaladesh that aether was powerful, but only in the past century have they found reliable ways to collect and use that power. Long-Finned Skywhale | Art by Cliff Childs Creatures such as skywhales, drakes, and high-flying birds have evolved to live in the volatile, energy-rich aethersphere itself, spending their lives basking in its radiance and amassing its magical power. Flocks of birds migrate with it, schools of fish swarm around it, wild beasts battle over the richest deposits, and gremlins consume condensed, nonreactive aether geodes. The wildlife of Kaladesh is affected too, attracted by the magnetic pull of aether. And waterways carve paths through the land to reflect the seasonal ebb and flow of aether tides in the skies above. Mountains are pockmarked with dazzling, luminescent aether gems pounded into their sides by the squalls. Flowers bloom in bucket-shaped blossoms to collect falling aether rain. Trunks of trees form horizontal spirals to leach as much power as possible from the gusting winds. Under the right conditions, the brilliant blue substance makes its way down to the world below. Most aether on Kaladesh exists in its raw form high in the upper reaches of the aethersphere.
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