Chapter 153 - Mana & Mages, Magierstadt's History, Lightbearers and Darkwielders (Part 2)

But this was not the end of the story; in approximate years of the hundredth, it sparked the bloodshed and mounting disputes of war. There were too many deaths for the battle of territory and conquerors can care no less for tribesmen. The small nation deemed to fall into the grasp of the militia, mistreated, and are deprived of freedom. But they were adaptive individuals. No one knew how the now-blooming magician's country survived the catastrophic circ.u.mstances of the Great War, but they knew it was also with the help of an individual.

They say he is a part-Magi, and part-Zweitfolk, blood mixed from the second continent. A half-blooded shaman, a demi-Magi. His appearance appeared to be different from the rest; the shamans were known to be bestowed long lives, and their appearance was similar to that of indigenous folks; they had tattoos of ancient patterns in their tan skin matched their pitch-black eyes; their copper-colored locks were tied into a distinctive variation of braids. They had staves that were from a 'seed' they grew exclusively in their land, and spells they made on their own. They were folks whose magic was unknown to the continent, but they were individuals who obeyed. They did not promote hostility, and whoever came to their land were treated with hospitality.

But such ways were ended by the late 300s when a single, demi-Magi arose. Unlike the shamans, he had a striking silver hair, a gleaming, fair skin, and purple eyes in contrast to the appearance of the Magi tribe. He was revered as the Demi, a result of the love between a General from Zweite and a shaman Priestess. The land that was merely a diminutive nation swiftly transpired into the county of magicians. Civilization rose; the population grew; the country developed.

And then the Demi named the country Magierstadt—the Mage City—as he built the largest place that harbors Magicians—the academe, Magierstadt—where knowledge reigns supreme, along with peace and integrity. He built it for the span of several years with magic. The Demi was the epitome of a magician ruler. He was the one responsible for the urbanization of the country, freeing them to the shackles of obedience to others. Books from Magierstadt often depicted him as a charming ruler, someone who was calm and composed, as opposed to other rulers who were barbarous and uncivilized.

Given that Magierstadt is a republic, there was transparency. There was no monarchy, nor there is a Lord that wants to reign over others. It was close to Nirvana. Being the nation that holds no affiliations to the two warmonger continents, magicians immediately moved to this country and thus resulted in prosperity.

They named the Demi as the Schoolmaster, welcoming both magicians from Zuerst and Zweite alike. And for the first time, there was no hostility but only the sheer pursue of knowledge and to learn magic. It is he who brought true armistice to the continents. The Magi folk widely believes that it is the Demi who made the peace last for a good thousand years in the two continents. Even among scholars from different nations believes that Magierstadt served as a pathway to the peace between the continents—it portrayed that even in the pursue of a similar goal, individuals can find solitude and camaraderie as well as equity without the need for bloodshed.

LIGHTBEARERS & DARKWIELDERS:

A long time ago, humans were said to be the descendants of the balancing light and darkness. When darkness and light reunited, it created neutral creatures that were capable of both evil and good. These are the first humans; not as evil as Monsters, but less fair than the Fey. They are not as stout as Dwarves, and not as pure as the Elves, but they were mortal creatures that were capable of reason and creation—something that differed them from the others.

In the past, there is only a void. And then, out from the darkness, a "Singularity" is born; It is called the Above. It then made light and darkness exist. The light created a world, the "first" world. The light created a shadow from its trace, thus born darkness. Darkness created a separate world, the "second" world. The light from the first world shaped the first bodies and gave rise to the Lightbearers; the five mortal creatures who were chosen to control light, thus give life. The other chosen five are Darkwielders, those who can control obscurity.

These chosen mortals were given a long life, but not immortality—the moment they reproduce and procreate, their lifespan shortens and is cut into 30 years of living.

After darkness and light coexisted in the void, a "Messiah" is born from the remnants of the singularity.

The Messiah is the one who serves as the messenger of Above; both a possessor of light and darkness, given the knowledge about the creation of the world at birth by the fragments left in the void. Through the Messiah, the Singularity gave His divine orders to the Lightbearers and Darkwielders. The messiah possessed no material body—he is in a guise of a message, a prophecy, a lingering voice; a purpose.

Spontaneously, creatures of various kinds appeared in each world—but with oddity. The first world summoned creatures that brimmed with light, beautiful, and gleeful. The second world, on the other hand, summoned creatures that spit venom, born from darkness.

The chosen ones balanced the world by giving the first world darkness, and with the second world light. It affected the creatures' appearances and nature greatly. The first world summoned beautiful but deceitful monsters when the Darkwielders cast darkness with it, while the second world created ugly but good-willed creatures when the Lightbearers bestowed light upon the land.

There was no perfect creature born from their magic. The chosen mortals then studied the formula of creation, with the help of the messiah's knowledge about the origin of the world. The messiah being their guide, the four elements became the foundation for the creation of the "perfect" creatures they desire.

Thus created the first humans.

The first humans are formed with complex formulas with a balance of light and darkness, nothing overriding each other; capable of deceit, capable of goodwill; they are ruled with the world's elements—fire, water, earth, and wind, their bodies needing nourishment from it.

There was something about humans that the other creatures did not possess, something that made them distinctive:

Neutrality.

The humans they created are distributed evenly in both worlds. Population increased. Knowledge is achieved. Civilization rose.

And for the first 200 years of the first summon of the chosen mortals, they found solitude.