In the year 2020, a vicious virus ravished the world. This virus became known as the Beast Plague. The Beast Plague started infecting all animals on the planet. It made animals turn on each other and start attacking each other for no apparent reason. Soon 80% of the wildlife population was gone. News outlets stated this was the end of the world's ecosystem as we knew it.
As animals destroyed their usual food sources, they turned to attack humans. A state of emergency was declared across Planet Earth and humans waged war with the remaining animals on the planet. Within 5 years of the first outbreak among animals, 100% of the wildlife population was gone. Humans adjusted to life without animals, but many who'd been bitten during the war started to notice a change in their personality.
These humans bitten by the infected animals started to display aggressive behavior towards others. Moreover, they noticed that they had magical powers thanks to magical animals called Familiars. Familiars gave average humans the ability to control different magical elements and these magical humans became known as Deviants. This divide among the world’s population created a war that was known as the War for Humanity.
The War for Humanity wiped away 50% of the Earth’s population and was headed to destroy the whole world, until eight individuals appeared with extraordinary magical power and allied with the non-magical humans to overpower the Deviants. These eight individuals became known as The Council. As payment for The Council’s help, the leaders of the world gave seven out of the eight Council members control of each continent. The remaining Council member without a continent, the leader of the Council known as Lucifer, became known as King of Earth.
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The Council renamed each continent:
* Africa became The Club Nation
* Antarctica became The Holy Kingdom
* Australia became The Heart Nation
* Asia became The Spade Nation
* Europe became The Diamond Kingdom
* North America became The Wasted Land
* South America became The Republic of the Eye.
As part of Lucifer’s deal to protect humanity from the Deviants, he implemented three new laws for the planet:
* Law 1: All Deviants must be captured and put into internment camps.
* Law 2: The five strongest Deviants in each of the internment camps must participate in an annual televised fight called “The Hunt” where they will fight among each other till only three Deviants remain.
* Law 3: The three winners of “The Hunt” had to join The Council’s Deviant Hunter army and fight for The Council to capture Deviants and put them into internment camps.
These laws helped wipe out the majority of the Deviant population and granted humanity survival. Furthermore, this caused the Deviants left on Earth to go into hiding and those with Familiar powers to hide their powers from others. The Hunt went on for more than 200 years until 2225 when a simple spark caused a flame of rebellion.