Year of the Twin Comets

The Twin Comets were a pair of comets, one in the summer, one in the fall, visible in the skies in 418 IE. Under the most popular cosmology of the day, comets were held to be the decoherence of a star. The Twin Comets are generally regarded to have inspired a literary and philosophical resurgence in the Omban states, which had suffered greatly economically and culturally in the years after the end of Empire. New cultural and intellectual movements emerged in the years following the Twin Comets, leading later thinkers to attribute positive significance to it. At the time, however, it was a curiosity and, for some, an ill omen.