In the ages preceding the Age of Enthronement, Absalom did not exist; some go so far as to say that the Isle of Kortos itself had yet to rise above the waves of the Inner Sea. All this changed when Aroden, at the time still mortal, raised the Starstone from the depths to its current location, making it the focus of what would become the City at the Center of the World. Whether or not the Last Azlanti also raised, or created, the Isle of Kortos has been the subject of debate for millennia. That he did so remains the pervading belief of the natives and of many religions, although no supporting records date back farther than 1450 AR.