No one has total knowledge of what happened before the Rending. As it is common knowledge, the Rending is the time in which the Earth did split itself and spew out all manner of dungeon beasts. What we would come to know as the devil's minions or the devil beasts.
The Rending was a time of apocalyptic changes in which mankind was forced to have a rethink over what they really wanted or sought after in their lives and pursuits of goals.
While it is arguable that the Rending was the progenitor of the delving of mankind into magic, we know that is as a result of the tough position in which mankind was forced into. And in that time, the time in which mankind would take a chance for what we have now, a lot of records for the time before were lost, some of which till today have not yet been
