Traction AU/The Darkling Plain

This is the The Darkling Plain timeline for L1quid's Traction AU.
==Locations==
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All locations in The Darkling Plain's Traction Era.
|-|Caelestis=
Caelestis is an aerial neutral city.L1quid's notes and outlines for The Darkling Plain
|-|Enclave=
Enclave is a terrestrial predator town. It is half the size of Zenith.
|-|Slipstream=
Slipstream is an aquatic scavenger town. It is in the shape of an eel.
|-|Zenith=
Zenith is a terrestrial predator city.
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==History==
===The Lost Continent Prophecy===
In the overall plotline, the story diverges from The Hive Queen onward (The Lost Continent is canon in this storyline).
In The Hive Queen, Blue, Cricket, Swordtail, and Sundew head across Pantala’s eastern sea towards Pyrrhia (“the Distant Kingdoms”) to find Luna, after Blue goes through Metamorphosis and grows his wings. The four use the opportunity to find help and defeat Wasp, bringing the Hives to Pyrrhia. It is also revealed that Wasp’s ability is mind control, which is genetic and a symbol of HiveWing royalty on Pantala and is similar to how Bewilderbeast's control dragons in How to Train Your Dragon. After finding some allies, Sundew and Luna fly back to Pantala to find their allies.
In The Poison Jungle, Sundew reveals to Luna that the LeafWings are not extinct and have slowly rebooting the Tree Wars to wipe out the HiveWings. At the LeafWing village (which is like the RainWing arboretum), Sundew tells her tribe about Pyrrhia, which prompts a handful of them to go with her to Pyrrhia while the rest execute their plan to exterminate the Hives. Back on Pyrrhia, Cricket reports to Sundew that several Hive Mind-controlled dragons have seen on Pyrrhia; these dragons have been arrested and killed by the Pyrrhians. She also mentions that animus magic, a trait notable among the Pyrrhians, has suddenly been “deleted”.
In The Dangerous Gift, Wasp begins taking over Pyrrhia, starting with the Ice Kingdom and the Kingdom of Sand. Snowfall orders Ivory, her esteemed general, to defend the Kingdom as she learns about the existence of Pantala in Sanctuary. Blue, Luna, Cricket, and Swordtail find the ancient ruins of the old LeafWing kingdom within the heart of the Sky Kingdom. While the LeafWings rejoice at the ruins, the SkyWings oppose the discovery. The Pyrrhian queens learn about Pantala and the Hive Queen from the Pantalan Dragonets. Following this revelation, the monarchs decide to send their soldiers into battle to defend Pyrrhia from Wasp. The “dangerous gift”, as the title’s reference, are the Pantalan Dragonets.
In The Flames of Hope (or “The Land Across”), Pyrrhia and Pantala become embroiled in a global conflict, much more intense than the SandWing Succession War. Many lives are lost, including monarchs and heirs, until Wasp is defeated. The LeafWings return to Pantala, giving the ruins of their old kingdom back to the SkyWings. The Pyrrhian queens who died in the war are Moorhen, Coral, Thorn, and Snowfall; this forces one of Moorhen’s relatives to become the new MudWing queen, Tsunami to become the new SeaWing queen, Sunny to become the new SandWing queen, and one of Snowfall’s relatives to become the new IceWing queen. Pantala begins rebuilding, albeit into something seen at the end of dystopian science-fiction stories. The existing animus dragons find out that animus magic is not completely “deleted”, but that elemental magic can be performed (think the bending arts from Avatar Legends). As the dragon world rebuilds, a strange dragon washes up onto the shores of Pyrrhia - someone from a third continent - restarting The Lost Continent Prophecy all over again.
The strange dragon reveals themselves to be Coral, a dragon from Polycarpa, a continent located southwest of Pantala and southeast of Pantala. She is an OceanWing, one of the continent’s natives.
Polycarpa is divided into several species - OceanWings, StormWings, MoonWings, TreeWings, SphereWings, SunWings, and DarkWings - each connected to a different element. OceanWings are connected to the Ocean, StormWings are connected to the Sky, MoonWings are connected to the Moon, TreeWings are connected to the Earth, SphereWings are connected to the Stars, SunWings are connected to the Sun, and DarkWings are connected to the Darkness. Other flora and fauna are connected to said elements.
Coral tells the Pyrrhians about their form of magic, which is not “animus magic” but Primal magic, and how animi can potentially unlock it. With the permission of the monarchs, Coral takes Turtle, Jerboa III (Jerboa I’s second daughter), and Anemone to Polycarpa to learn Primal magic. (Stonemover stays behind because of his old age and “stonescales” enchantment.)
Once they reach the continent, Jerboa III is handed off to Maple, a TreeWing and an Earth Archdragon; Turtle and Anemone are handed off to Tide, an OceanWing and an Ocean Archdragon. Turtle and Anemone quickly master the Ocean, and the same applies for Jerboa III and the Earth. After mastering their respective elements, Coral sends the three back to Pyrrhia with Polycarpan literature on Primal magic to instruct future generations how to master it.
Turtle, Anemone, and Jerboa III’s ventures open up new possibilities for future animi and the world. Because of their journeys, many dragons visit Polycarpa to experience it for themselves.
However, the discovery goes awry when politicians find they can manipulate and exploit the third continent’s natives for their own gain. Horrified by it, Polycarpa’s natives close the continent off and the politicians take their enslaved back to Pyrrhia and Pantala. There, the enslaved are bred with each other, creating domesticated dragons to be used by civilized feral dragons.
For one thousand years, planet Pern has been at an uneasy peace. Wars break out every so often, but they are often ended by treaties or by force. Governments send prisoners to Polycarpa to die. New animi are taught Primal magic alongside the old ways.
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===Polycarpa===
When a second SandWing Succession War broke out on Pyrrhia, the entire globe was dragged into it. It ran for a multitude of years until a mysterious prophecy was delivered. Hoping to have it come true their own way, governments and political groups hoarded dragonets, hoping that they would end the war their way.
However, when a group of dragonets were captured on Polycarpa and handed off to different areas of the world, a chain reaction began. Coral, a female SeaWing part of the Prophecy, befriended Earth, Wispy, Thicket, and Aegis in the SkyWing palace prison.
When Queen Rubicund invited an esteemed guest over, Aegis used her usual ability - Sun magic - and melted the queen’s face. This whipped the crowds in the arena in a frenzy, allowing her, Coral, Thicket, and Earth to escape. (Wispy was killed as she fought the guards for more time.)
The four went all over Pern and successfully completed their quest to end the war, seemingly bringing global peace.
But that was not the case. A revolution was coming - one that had been brewing for over a century, quietly in the shadows. It was on the cusp of erupting when Pantala declared war on Pyrrhia, using unseen weapons to obliterate the continent. (Pyrrhia did the same too when they realized what Pantala had done.)
The effects were felt immediately - the continents had shattered into a billion pieces; formidable capitals, honorable towns, and lowlife villages dissipated; dragons went extinct.
Not knowing what to do, the survivors - which were humans - brainstormed on how to continue living. After multiple rejections, they decided to mobilize themselves upon a desolate, poisoned planet.
The Resurgence of Humanity and the Age of Tractionism had dawned upon Pern.
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====The Darkling Plain====
The Darkling Plain occurs during this timeline of the Traction Era.
==References==
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