Chapter I. Timeline
[] Chapter I. Timeline []
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<> Section A : Altered Time
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In 455 CE, the great British sorcerer Myrddin, heart companion, consort, and Court Sorcerer of High King Bruta, enacted a great ritual the likes the world has never see. The ritual, empowered by his willing sacrifice, wrapped the British Isles in a mystic curtain, the Mist Wall, that separated it from the wider Earth.
What is 455 to 496 CE in the wider world is 0 to 2060 AT (Albion Time) in the British Isles. As a period of stretched time it is impossible to connect isle events to continent events in a point to point manner.
The Mist Wall began fading upon the birth of Merlin and disappeared entirely by the ascension of Arthur to the Crown of Camelot. From that point forward history between the two meshes once again.
The Great Seperation, as it is known, of the Magical and Mundane worlds came around the middle of King Arthur's reign. It wasn't a simple pulling back of the magical but rather an event backed by potent supernatural ritual and divine authority. In an act of great willworking the two groups became seperated, with the mundane world even having a changed past due to it.
In this changed past there was never a Mist Wall, Britain remained a full part of the Empire, the Roman Empire had split earlier leading to a greater level of chaos and warlordism, an entirely different list of Emperors ruled in the west and east, and King-Emperor Arthur Pendragon could not be proven to have even existed.
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* In time before normal time in a wold before the world as we know it a number of supernatural species were born. As the world changed most of these races died out, leading to the present only the Drakmara/Dementor still existing.
* The First Race, for their true name is unknown, are the first species of our material world to gain full sentience, imperishable souls, and complex magical abilities in this reality. They would grow in ability and understanding and create a society more advanced then we can imagine.
* They would create the Shaped, as avatars, agents, minions, and tools. The Shaped would serve, in fact service was all they knew, the First Race for untold millennia.
* At some point the First Race would notice that certain members of humanity had magic and would take them in. Said humans would be trained by the First Race physically, mentally, and magically. Though most would be let go back onto the world after the training some would be kept and treated as valued pets (at worst) or beloved children (at best). In time those of the second category would gain a place (basic and simple though it may be) within First Race society.
* Those First Race trained human magicals would go back to their origional societies and work their powers to gain positions of power in society. In fact, in time, many of these people would go onto becoming the heroes and demigods of myth and legend. Other major mythic legends and the heroes that performed them were either of the Shaped or (more rarely) members of the First Race.
* Then numerous events all happened around the same time. Some of the First Race grew tired of this existence and so went Elsewhere. Then those First Race who remained began coveting the resources of their brethren, and so war resulted.
* At the same time the servant society of the Shaped also began to break down, especially without many of their masters. Two major factions soon appeared with humanity as the focal point. One group grew hateful towards humanity, considering them an upstart species, while the other kept their First Race-issued protective streak towards humanity. At the same time many Shaped began to take advantage of the breakdown to steal resources and knowledge from their now gone masters.
* Between the wars of both super races great swathes of the world were devastated and torn asunder. In the end the fighting would get so intense that some of the First Race who went Elsewhere came back and forced a peace on all factions. The remaining First Race were urged to go with them, which most did. The Shaped were given aid in manifesting there own realm in the Void and so could leave Earth alone.
* All during this the humans lay huddled in there secret hill warrens led by the descendants of those trained by the First Race. Said groups would in time form the first generation of families empowered by Magic. Potter being the first, Priest second, and the three sacred houses plus Emrys coming soon after.
* Though it took some time the world calmed and the Magicals came out of hiding. Thus began the history of the world as we know it. Behind the scenes some Shaped remained here and fought a shadow war against both themselves and their Void Realm dwelling btrethren. Sidhe became the term for for those Shaped covens which staid on the world. Said Sidhe would, in time, become much changed from their other kin, becoming more of this world than outside of it, for all that they kept themselves almost entirely seperate.
* The Shaped themselves, in their new realm, would fight their own series of wars. In the end Shaped society would split in two - the neutral Pure Shaped and the corrupted Dark Shaped. The Pure Shaped won the first war and managed to trap the Dark Shaped into a hostile corner of the realm.
* A century into the reign of King Arthur some evil forces opened a portal and led into this world hordes of the Dark Shaped. After years of war the Empire managed to push the Dark Shaped back through the portals. This had the effect of trapping them into the void between realms where they were imprisoned. These Dark Shaped, now separate from their brethren and called the Void Shaped, would stay there till Voldemort would let them out. Eventually a war even greater than the one King Arthur fought against the Shaped would occur.
* In the aftermath of the First War against the Shaped the Sidhe retreated to their hidden hills (known as tors). Though they would keep some contact with the Monarchy for the most part they simply stopped paying attention to what everyone else was doing. Using potent magics they learned from the few remaining First Ones the Sidhe began linking their hills together by portal so they wouldn't have to traverse mundane space.
Fact: Some magicals were taught some of these secret techniques, which is how the earliest magical hundreds were developed.
* The Dark Shaped, really the Void Shaped, return to the World after Riddle summons them. After his defeat they sort of disappear for the next few years, except for a few raids and the like. This includes the theft of particular resources. When Harry is 19 the attacks increase rapidly, from simple raids to all out assaults. By 21 it's a full blown war and leads to Harry becoming the Monarch. The Second War against the Dark Shapedwould [REDACTED].
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* The long ago ancesters of the Potters were one of the first few Magicals chosen by the First Race. They were taken in and enhanced - body, mind, spirit, and magic. They were among those treated with some respect by the First Age which is how they uncovered certain advanced magical craft techniques.
* When the wars began the ancesters of the Potters used what they had learned to get away. Taking with them some First Race resources they ran as far as they could. They make their way from their origins in the Near East to that of Eastern Europe and then over western Europe till they get to Britain. They would stop, hide, and rest in various hidden hills they found on their journey. Said sites would be protected by the most advanced magical wards (both spells and items) they had access to. They didn't stop running till they made it to Britain, for reasons long lost.
* In Britain the ancestors of the Potters settle down in a small village. The ancestor marries the daughter of the local potters which is whne they gain the name Potter. The Potters use their magic to protect the village and hide it from all foes, both magical and mundane. In time this would see them expanding in numbers and knowledge, as well as in defense.
* At some point a series of events would occur that would see the Potters swear themselves to Magic and use a ring to manifest such oaths in the world. This act saw the birth of what would become the first true Great House, with Potter being it.
* When matters calm down the Potters began to expand outward. Over the centuries they establish small hidden enclaves throughout the known world. No matter how far they roam the Potters always keep their core in Britain.
* When Merlin approached the then Head of House Potter very little was needed to get him to support his plan for Albion. Which would prove a good move for it led to the Potters current status as the largest non-Royal Great House.
* During the first war against the Shaped it was potent Potter magics and lore which lead to their defeat. In thanks for the sacrifice they made during it the Potters were granted an archducal title.
* An Heir of House Potter was a Dark Lord and had to be put down when he rebelled against his Head and House. Since he had an Heir Ring the many new types of magic he created are technically available to a studious Potter Lord.
* By the present day the Potter Head Ring has the accumulated knoweldge of every Potter Head from the moment the family swore to magic to the present. This is almost six thousand years worth of history, all of which is recorded.
* Potter Grimores also contain the accumulated written history of the Potter family from its times as servants of the First Race to the present.
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[] Great House Histories
* Malfoy has it's origins in Roman France before the Albion conquests. They joined up at the start of the conquests and so quickly proved themselves, gaining many benefits.
* House Weasley's more modern note of fame is the sanctions it is under. Sanctions because centuries ago a Weasley Head and Heir went corrupt and plitted rebellion. The family discovered this and in an act of internal revolution the Head, Heir and most of the core family were either killed or exiled and the youngest son took over as Head. By the time the Monarch got involved the Weasley's had mostly cleaned house. Still, the Emperor had to punish then and he so by hiding their chief manor and "temporarily" stripped from them many private hundred fiefs. Unfortunately the death of the Last Monarch meant a punishment that was supposed to last only a few generations has continued on for almost three centuries now.