I have always assumed that the Compromise was the straw that broke the GodTime's back, forcing a symmetry breaking in the Time dimension. Thus, before the Sunrise Event, one could perceive the Future directly, with the appropriate effort, rather than just predicting on the basis of the current pattern.
Thus, the feud between the Elves, Trolls, and Dwarves really *was* started by King Elf killing Mostal and by Zorak Zoran killing Flamal and Shanassee. The sides involved had already seen it long before it happened. One of the worst effects of Chaos to the Celestial Court was probably that it ruined this ability in the vicinity of Chaos, thus confusing everything beyond their ability to cope. This meant that Kargan Tor would willingly be used to fight himself, because he couldn't forsee it before he started fighting. The earlier the God, the worse the effects would be, which is why the Emperor Yelm seems so politically inept when dealing with the younger Storm Tribes.
Of course, the return of the Sun, in a predictable pattern, certainly helped the weather, as well, but that is a change from the previous Age, rather than from the entire pre-Compromise epoch.
This also assumes that there really was a Compromise, which the Solars and non-Henotheistic Malkioni seem to deny, if I have understood the digest correctly. They trace the Sunrise to entirely different causes.
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