-- HISTORY

[PARANOIA]

`` HISTORY ;

Magic has always been apart of this world. It has always flowed through the air, and has always been in the earth and upon the waves of the ocean. It is what created nature, and animals, it is what breathed life into our ancestors.

But magic has always been coveted by those who were greedy, and those who wished for more than they deserved. It brought about chaos and evil, it sprang from the darkest of places and swept across the land destroying anything in it's path. It became such a threat to the survival of many races that there was a conference called. The leaders of each race and faction met beneath a canopy of trees and they decided that for the good of all, magic should be locked up and hidden.

Taking magic away from the world meant that many of the races would have to either live as mortals or go into a hibernation until a day when magic could once again be free in the world. Angels returned to the skies, the fae to their trees and flowers, others just allowed the magic to wither from them so that they could interact with mortals. Mortals who had never had magic be apart of them were unaffected by the decision and continued to live as they always had.

Centuries went by without any touch of magic in the world. The mortals grew and created their world with their own hard work and intellect. But there were those that hid in the darkness and wished to gain back what was taken from them.

For years they searched the world for where the ancient leaders hid magic. As the mortals moved into the modern world, so did the creatures get closer and closer to finding what they craved. Then, in the early 1800's they reached their goal. They found what they had been seeking for many years and with the help of a God they opened the vault and allowed magic to explode into the world.

This caused those that had gone into hibernation to wake up almost instantly, renewed with the powers they had thought gone. And it gave those that had sought magic more power than they could have imagined. But it had been a long time since magic had been in the world and things had changed. It seeped into the oceans and it poured over mountains. It started to affect mortals in ways it hadn't before. It gave a select number of people powers. It chose them at random, and as each new generation was born the magic chose who to infect and who to leave alone.

The ancient leaders were no longer around, having died off with mortals centuries ago, and as such there was no one to contain the magic, to keep it from infecting. So daemons and angels returned to earth, some wanting the magic to stay, others trying to keep it from changing the world completely. The fae, vampires and shifters appeared once again, longing to join the world again. Choosing sides as they saw fit.

From where the vault stood, nature began to flow forth. Even though magic roamed the earth, the largest collection was at the mouth of the vault, a place later to be called Brookings, Nevada. The God that had helped the dark creatures open the vault came to this area and began to build a village, later a town. The magic concentration here attracted the different races and they came to Brookings to share it's wealth. But the God didn't like to share and so he built a mansion upon the mouth of the vault and made it so the magic could not leave it's walls.