In the year 2140 a marvelous discovery was made. Humanity discovered how to use magic. This was a wonderful achievement and was well received among the majority of the masses. People all over the world started trying their best to learn how to use it. The next five years was a time of research and experimentation as the people began to slowly harness this power.

It was a wonderful time. Much was discovered in the manipulation of the elements with magic, as well as peace and prosperity everywhere. What once was termed as old fashioned, odd fictional terms like mages and sorcerers began to be popular. Healing magic was researched as well, in correlation with modern medicines.

But unfortunately, during that time a group of mages decided that they had the right and now had the power, to rule the world. Drunken with their power, they named their group the Kraken and began waging war on the governments of the earth. The war lasted for five years. Slowly but surely, they were hunted down by other mages and army officials that were rapidly rising in power. In despair and anger against their fate, the remaining members of the kraken cast a magic that everyone thought would be impossible. Meteor.

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1st January 2150

Somewhere in California, USA

"Curse and blast, why'd I have to join this stinking war." A loud voice was heard complaining as the sounds of gunfire, flame and carnage echoed all around. The owner of the voice fired a few rounds at the blurry figures in the sky.

"Welp, at least you're still alive, Simon. Unlike these other unlucky sods." Another voice retorted. His sniper rifle let out the typical bang as he shot a mage out of the sky.

The man complaining let out a gulp as he viewed all the dead bodies of both comrades and enemies.

"When will it all end though? We've been waging war for years now and the old warfare is rapidly declined what with magic and all happening. We old gun war veterans are becoming almost useless. The lucky SOB's that have magic are in a lot less danger than us who haven't learnt it." Simon continued complaining.

"Don't know, don't care. All I care about right now is staying ali--" The man speaking was cut off as a ice spike penetrated his chest.

"John? JOHN." Simon cried out, as he saw his friend collapse on the ground.

"Get.... Out of here. Save..... yourself." John gasped out, blood soaking his army vest.

"No, no, no. This can't be happening. John, don't die on me." The man sobbed as his hands tried to desperately remove the blood soaked ice spike.

"Simon..... I can't.... Be saved........ Go now....... Let my wife..... know....." John fell silent as life left him.

Simon let out a cry of despair and quickly picked up his gun; firing like a man possessed. But soon he was knocked out of his grief stricken state. He looked up to aim at the mages. A gasp escaped him and his eyes widened uncontrollably. He saw something that he never expected to see in his lifetime. A gigantic meteor covering the sky.

"It's over." He mumbled in despair, still cradling his friend in his arms as the meteor hit. Little did he know, that meteors had fallen all over the world.

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6th February 2150

Whitehouse

USA

President of the United States

Ron Howard

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"I'd like to thank you all for gathering here today. We are horrified at the world-wide devastation that world war three has wrought on us. Ten years ago we discovered that magic is indeed real. This was a wondrous discovery. But with it came a catastrophe. World war three happened and left destruction in its wake. We mourn for those that have fallen, especially those in New Zealand and Hawaii, which have sunk into the ocean under the weight of the meteors that were caused by magic. Let us now have a minute in silence to remember the brave souls that have died."

A solemn silence began as the people mourned for those that had fallen. A girl had tears running down her cheeks as she mourned the loss of her father.

"We are grateful for their sacrifice. Without them, the rogue mages that called themselves the Kraken would have continued to terrorize the nations. But as much as we mourn, we also see hope for the future. We have found a solution to end war on earth. Using our knowledge that we have gained from experimenting with both magic and science, we have decided that we will make a new world, and bodies called avatars for us to control. And if war must happen, then it will happen on this new world. That way our home, our world will be safe from the ravages of war and conflict."

Cheers erupted as the president took his seat. From then on, the world changed to a peaceful place. Scientists and mages worked hand in hand to create a new world. Twice the size of earth, and much more resistant to the devastating effects that the Kraken had on earth. It took them a decade of effort to create it. And then a scientist came up with the brilliant idea of making avatars, so that life would not need to be lost in these wars. they began their research into making bodies for their minds to possess on this new world.

Eventually, after another three years they succeeded. Machines were created that would allow the mind to possess the avatars. In order to help so that people wouldn't have to spend their entire life in their avatars, they began researching time compression with magic and soon were able to compress time so much that a day on earth was equivalent to a week on Avaria. Finally Avaria was ready.

At first, Avaria was nothing more than an alternate war zone to spare the earth from destruction. The avatars that were first possessed were considered incredibly weak by the mages that had been researching magic. It was like they had to start over. As war and conflict was all moved over here it became quickly apparent that if your avatar was completely destroyed then you had to start over again with a new one. They couldn't make a stronger base avatar.

Soon, it became more of a status quo. The stronger your avatar was, the higher your standing in society. The use of magic and warfare slowly was outlawed on earth unless it was healing magic. All other forms of magic were now only allowed to be practiced on Avaria. Earth quickly became more of a basic living whereas everything fun gradually shifted to Avaria. It became more of a game to a lot of people, to the point where some people created artificial intelligence's and would have these AI's grade their abilities as stats.

The old warrior ways were integrated back into society as the world of Avaria became more and more game like. The old weaponry became popular, although people still used guns. One thing after another was discovered and soon, Avaria was pretty much known as a game world.