The Crystal realm was in chaos - even more so than normal. Between the dark clouds, massive lightning strikes, sudden volcanic eruptions followed by a sudden stillness that was absurdly abnormal, the people almost forgot that they had been at war for countless years.
They forgot they were used to facing death everyday, because facing death in the form of a physical enemy, and facing death in the form of total environmental collapse were two entirely different scenarios.
But as everyone would later learn, during the tribulations, not a single soul died. Of course, in the moment, it was hard to imagine that no one had died.
So once the tribulations ended, and the unnatural stillness that caused everyone in the realm to freeze where they stood was over, the survivors breathed a sigh of relief. Hopefully, the worst of it was over.
Then, Lex, who had been asleep all this time, opened his eyes and everything went batshit crazy.
