This is the 48th day of the Gaian year. On this day chapter 48 of the Gaiad is read, telling the story of Chapter 48 describes the end of the Ordovician golden age, driven by the sons of Stomatos (early land plants) who colonize all the ancient continents — Laurentia, Siberia, Baltica, Avalonia, and Gondwana — building their carbon-rich bodies into coal-tombs and stripping CO2 from the atmosphere until Terra grows frigid and Gondwana becomes an icy wasteland.