"Never forget, a believing heart is your magic!" - Ursula Callistis
For as long as man has walked the earth and strangled the lands of it's riches there has been a force beyond our comprehension which others wield to excellent proficiency yet the vast majority of us are not even aware of in our daily lives; Magic. The earliest mentions of Magic predate the written word, as old as humanity as we know it, yet it was the early Mesopotaminus peoples who first knew about magic. The wielders of magic often suffered under the yoke of the various city states which permeated the lands; only seen as tools to the kings of these states. Even those who wielded it with great proficiency found it hard to be independent, as the men and bronze of the armies of these kings can overwhelm and crush any organized magic revolt.
In the far west, in ancient Albion, the Druids were the first society to embrace Magic and see those who wield it as equal, even sometimes greater. Their civilization would flourish and spread throughout the western world, transforming the Druidic society into various flourish Gaelic kingdoms. Their decline would go hand in hand with the rise of the Raman Empire, and more broadly the ideals of Antiquity and Greso-Raman thoughts and philosophy. The last of the Gaelic kingdoms, and subsequent Druidic society, would fall during the height of Rame.
Magic and it's usage in the Raman Empire was considered a cultural taboo. with some emperors going on wholesale purges of magic users. However it became lawfully illegal to practice following the Christianization of the Empire, with death being a common fate of magic users; though they're fates would be more lenient closer to the frontiers of the empire due to the growing power of the various "abhuman" kingdoms in Germania and due to the fact that magic was useful during hard times, making it more acceptable to use in those circumstances.
The Frankish Empire would continue the outlawing of Magic even after it split into the 4 kingdoms of western mainland Europa. Even in the far east with the Eastern Ramans they uphold this ban on magic usage, citing it as a "Power Against Divinity". Oddly enough this idea doesn't apply to the flugels from the churches perspective, seeing the flugels as the "responsible ones"; the ones who are able to use magic wisely.
In Albion, even after most kingdoms converted to Christianity, took on a more relaxed approach to the handling of magic, due to the lasting influence of it being the homeland of the Druidic People. These various kingdoms have no issue with everyday magic use, with some even recruiting these gifted individuals into their armies to gain the upper hand in disputes with their neighboring kingdoms. This has caused some problems in terms of relations from the churches in Albion to the central Raman Catholic dioceses, whilst not being completely excommunicated the tensions and strain has been growing, with the growth of these tensions temporarily being stunted by the "Magia Toleratio" decree passed by the current pope, Ferdinand.
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Magic in the current day remains taboo at best, and wholesale illegal at worst; depending on how forgiving the king of the local lands are. However this begs many questions, Where does magic come from? What is magic? Is it of divine, unholy, or neither origins? Well we are able to partial answer some of those questions due to the generosity of a Flugel who donate some books from her library to our historical archives.
One of the books contained a plethora of knowledge regarding the basis and foundations of what Magic is. This wasn't even the original copy as the flugel explained to us that she has had to copy and recopy the book into several other ones over an untold amount period of time, she wasn't even the first owner of the text. To say this knowledge is ancient is an understatement, it predates ancient society.
In the book, thankfully translated, describes Magic as an omnipresent force which exists in every aspect of life. Usable by anyone who has either natural affinity to wield Magic or learned through practice and cultivation of the handling of Magic. Though this has been established by the many magic societies' texts it would seem that the confirmation that such a view of magic has been present in even the earliest of records.
Most of the text relates to different practices and usages of Magic, being rather mundane yet useful in it's words; though nothing which the current magic societies have uncovered and understood. Yet an interesting excerpt which was buried amongst the vast pages and words of the book has led to a new insight as to how magic came to be in the current era.
The Polaris Porta. The gateway of magic. described as an immense structure of size whose carvings ornate and foretell the being who gifted and cursed us with this gateway. The realm to another world which brims of beings of pure magic, though not impossible with our current understanding of magic it is an immensely draining process to both conjure and maintain; even by some of the most talented and proficient magic users in the known realms.
There is also mention of a "fountain" in which all magic "flows out of" which does slightly contradict the current and even mentioned understanding of how magic works, being a force rather than a flow of something. There are many things to understand about this text and its mysteries, that of the words which have no translation; do they hold the key to understanding the origins of Magic? Most importantly, and the thing which has kept the scholars awake for several nights straight, what is this "League Solaria" and why are they mentioned so thoroughly throughout this entire book? (edited)