Cantha · Dragon's End
Soo-Won is corrupted as the Age of Aurene is declared
The Deep Sea Dragon Soo-Won — the One Elder Dragon and mother of the rest — is freed and begins to corrupt from Void magic, and the Pact Commander declares that the Age of Aurene begins.
Soo-Won, the Elder Dragon of Water and Life, is revealed as the original "One Elder Dragon": the mother of the other Elder Dragons who once balanced all of Tyria's magic alone. To keep the world stable she had sustained herself in seclusion, but when her containment is sabotaged at Dragon's End her mind begins to fall to Void magic, threatening a catastrophe should she die with that corruption unextracted.
It is against this backdrop that the Pact Commander declares the Age of Aurene begins — naming the era in which Glint's scion Aurene, already the Elder Dragon of Crystal and Light, will inherit the duty of filtering the world's magic from the last of the old cycle's dragons.