Thousands of years ago, Mana Telus was divided between two races. These two races were spread out along the world of Mana Telus. They were far from each other. Both were unaware of the existence of the other race. These two races were the Humans and the Shin. Both had lived in isolation for thousands of years, until one day, they had their first official meeting. At that time period, Humans were mostly divided into Kingdoms with Monarchical governments. A brigade of explorers stumbled upon a Shin village. The Shin were a very shamanistic society that would settle mainly near Mana Springs. These magical hotspots provided a source of sustenance for the Shin, as they were magical creatures by nature and the Hotspots were their equivalent of oxygen. The explorers, seeking a reward from their King for their findings, reported to the King that they found a treasure, guarded by wild beasts. The King, who was caught in a power struggle with neighboring kings, immediately sent soldiers to overrun the small Shin village. This attack triggered massive outrage from all of the neighboring Shin tribes.
All of Shindom unites, and takes the fight to the Humans. The King is forced to unite with the other kings to repel the Shin. The Shin would easily decimate the Human troops with their destructive magics. Death tolls were in the thousands on the Human side, simply because they could not combat the Shaman mages of the Shin tribes. Two years into the war, and the Humans and Shin are at a stalemate. The Humans manage to adapt their fighting tactics to avoid the magic to some extent and regain some of their footing. It is now that Elves create the first ever magical Nexus. The Humans, desperate, ask the elves for aid. The Elves were most connected with their deity, Lynn, at that time and had learned Magical Language, otherwise known as Canon. They taught it to the Humans and aided the Humans in cultivating the Mana within them. With Humans now training Magi, they finally begin to repel the Shin and push them out of their homelands. The Shin, driven away from their Mana Springs and too weak to fight back, eventually became extinct. Peace returned to the world, and Humans began to settle in the Shirelands.
From those Magi that had spawned from the war, a select few were chosen to take care of the Mana Springs. These few traveled the Shirelands, the ex-homeland of the Shin, to each magical hotspot and took the source unto themselves. The Founders fought hard within themselves to control their new magic. Out of every Mana Spring absorbed, a new magic affinity was born, and each of the affinities had distinctive characteristics. Each of the Founders represented a color of the affinity and was a true master of their magic affinity. The Founders settled in the places where they originally found the Mana Springs.
Even though the Founders had already absorbed a majority of the Mana Springs, there were traces left in the earth that tainted the people who settled where the Mana Springs used to be. These people adapted to the Magic subconsciously and eventually, the Mana inside these Humans grew and culminated itself. These Humans gained a power within them that lay dormant. One day, one of the Founders was overcome by the Mana Spring that she absorbed. It was the Black School’s Ysera Nosfarau. She went mad with power and killed the Founders of the Blue and White affinities. The Black Magic had corrupted every cell in her body and she became something else. It mainly took a bloody toll on the city of Whitefall, which was built near her school. Ysera killed the current King and Queen of the united Human Kingdom, and approached their daughter. The daughter, as if in a trance, walks up to to Ysera and holds up her hands. Ysera is sealed away by the child and becomes a black gem. Two children are left in the place of Ysera. The Green Founder is present and witnessed this event. The Founders decide to whisk away these children to examine them. Despite being thoroughly investigated, nothing comes of it. The Founders decide to raise the orphaned princess and raised the twins born of Ysera in captivity. The Founders find that all three have a natural knack for magic.
When the Princess displayed the ability to learn all the schools of magic, the Founders were dumbfounded. All of the Founders come together to teach the child all of what they know and name her Archon, the embodiment of magic. They all pass to her the Mana Springs that they had absorbed. The Coalition of Human Kingdoms fear the Archon will be another Ysera and begin to banish magic. They prepared to purge anyone who inhabited the Shirelands, for all the people there were tainted with magic. As this was happening, Luna and Dawn, the twins born of Ysera were released from captivity. Dawn, in anger for being held in captivity her entire life, goes on a killing frenzy. This is what lead the Human Coalition to officially and permanently ban magic.
The Elves, seeing magic become unpopular with the Humans, rebuilt their Nexus in a secretive location, destroyed the original, and migrated back to their home world. Ysera, in a mass exodus, leads the humans of the Shirelands to a remote and hidden location, far from the reach of the Coalition of Human Kingdoms. Archon captures Luna and calms her before leaving. She takes them with aid of Telus’ inspiration, opens a Nexus to the world of Mana Arc. Dawn decided to join Archon and the Humans of the Shirelands to avoid persecution as well. These humans inhabit the land there, and come to befriend the Caitan and Amian races there. The Nexus is kept open, but the humans of Mana Arc do not return until long after magic is forgotten in Mana Telus. In this time, the humans’ magic culminates into four fields when the Archon decides to release the six Mana Springs to form a magic large Mana Spring for people to rejuvenate their magic. Luna and Dawn disappear shortly after their arrival at Mana Arc. Hundreds of years later, the humans of Mana Arc slowly begin to return to Mana Telus and live secret lives among the humans who’d completely forgotten about magic.
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