Witches and Wizards/Ancient Witches

==History==
===Upbringing===
The Ancient Witches lived away from civilization as their magical powers were at times incontrolable and too big of a risk. Once they learned to control their powers, they often ventured to the nearby settlement to obtain food and other materials. At some point in the year after the birth of Ayla, the father of the Ancient Witches died in a hunting accident. The Ancient witches were raised by their mother from that point onwards, with the oldest sisters helping the youngest.
===Teenage years and marriages===
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Shortly after Myrya's 15th birthday, she met Karden. He was 18 summers old, a godlike man. Although she had no reason to trust the stranger, him saving her life from the predatorial animals in the woods gained enough of her trust to let him walk her home. During the walk, Myrya told Karden about her father's death three years ago and how her family has struggled since. Upon arriving home, she gifted the kind stranger a generous amount of fruit. The next morning, Myrya found Karden fixing their roof and singing a song to entertain Myrya's younger sister Yara. From there on out, Karden became the man of the family and helped the 8 women with the manual labor as he and Myrya started their relationship.
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The spring after Karden joined their family, a young Doreaha who had just 15 wished to gather materials in Athens, much to her mother's concern. Determined as ever, Doreaha convinced her mother and left, only to dissappear for two whole years, causing her mother and sisters to fear she was dead after she didn't return within one month.
Despite the grief, Myrya brought joyful news with announcing she and Karden were expecting their first child. Their daughter Cercilia was born on a cold winter's night shortly after Myrya turned 17, and the couple moved to their own little house not far from the rest of Myrya's family.
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Doreaha returned two years after she had left with a one year old daughter. Not disclosing who the child’s father was, Doreaha tells her family she was afraid to return home after abandoning them. Her sisters locked her in an embrace, vowing they would never turn their backs on each other and stay together forever and always. Doreaha's return to the family was not easy, and she left Ambre in the care of one of her sisters often.
When Marcyn, a young man who lived nearby, noticed a fire that was caused by Ambre he came to the family's rescue. While Myrya took Cercilia and Ambre out of sight of the stranger, fearing their magic was uncontrolled, Samyra thanked him with fruit. When the young man demanded a kiss in reward, Samyra felt flattered, and allowed him to kiss her hand. Marcyn tells her to come find him if she is ever in need of help again, she makes good on that promise two moons later when Karden gets severely injured. Once they get Karden into the witches' home, Marcyn withnesses Samyra using her healing abilities, which made him fall head over heels in love with her. Once Samyra knew he would not reveal their secret, she finally gave him the kiss he had desired and they agreed to get married soon after her 16th birthday.
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While Samyra and Marcyn had a happy marriage, the couple didn’t agree on having children. Samyra desired them, but her husband knew he could never explain his child’s magic to his family and he would have to lie to them. This fear gets amplified when Samyra has to heal Marcyn when he tries to save Ambre from the nursery that had gone up in flames. Samyra and Doreaha get into a big fight about who was to blame for the injury, with Doreaha calling Marcyn a reckless human and Samyra calling Doreaha's 3 year old daughter a danger to them all.
Shortly after the accident, Samyra and Marcyn decide to move into a house of their own. When Marcyn's parents died, the couple decided to have a child.====
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Samyra and Marcyn's son Athen is born on a hot summer day. With three of the witches now mothers, their mother offers them a way to bound their children's powers so they can not endanger anyone else. A nine year old Ayla overhears this and sees her younger nieces and nephew as a danger to the family.
Nerilla finds her younger sisters Ayla and Yara in the nursery, where she senses a dark energy pressence. Nerilla wrongfully assumes it's her toddler niece, while in reality this darkness is manifesting in Ayla who never received the same loving upbringing as her older sisters after their father's death.
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Nerilla goes to the stream washing the clothes of herself and her younger sisters when she notices a stranger doing the same. When the stranger drops some of the fabric down the river, Nerilla stops it from flowing away using her powers. In gratitude, the stranger insists on gifting her something. Upon returning to the girl’s home, she encounters her brother, Jakor.
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Myrya and Karden announce their second pregnancy, but Myrya suffers from a miscarriage due to Ayla secretly absorbing her sister's magic.
Jakor and Nerilla fall in love and meet by the riverside often, but due to the recent family tragedy she is hesitant to fall in love. When Nerilla brings Ambre to the stream and Jakor is able to calm her down when Nerilla couldn't, she is grateful and decides to give herself the chance at love.
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Doreaha discovers Nerilla is pregnant with twins when she recognizes her own pregnancy symtoms, and wonders why Nerilla hasn't told anyone. Nerilla mentions not wanting to upset Myrya with the news. Doreaha and Samyra eventually convince Nerilla to tell their oldest sisters the news, and Myrya supports the pregnancy and the upcoming wedding 100%
Lysra is out foraging for herbs to aid in Nerilla's delivery of twin boys, Arrell and Arving, when she finds a baby in the woods. A boy her age then tells her to go away, saying she is not supposed to find the child. At 16, Lysra has watcher her sister with their children and recognizes the infant's cry for food. The boy reveals the baby is his little sister and that his mom died a few days after giving birth so he has no way to care for it.
Lysra takes the boy and the baby home, and asks her mother for help. Nerilla agrees to nurse the baby along with the twins, in exchange asking Lysra and the boy to move in with them to help them with the babies. The baby and the boy live with the witches until the baby is a 3 year old child.
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Samyra and Marcyn share their concerns with 4 year old Athen's powers with her mother. Samyra reconsiders the option to bound her son's powers, fearing his magic is more uncontrolled because he is the first boy born into their family. When the next month they discover Samyra's pregnancy of another boy, they realize that they were meant to be parents of their children with their powers included and they decide against the spell.
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Lysra and Benam have been in a romantic relationship for 2 years when they decide to move out of her sister's home to find their own place while they raise Benam's little sister. Lysra's three failed pregnancies convinced the couple that they are not meant to have children of their own.
Doreaha decides to leave her daughter in the care of her sisters when she feels the urge to explore again. While her daughter never hated her for leaving, having the same desires to see the world, the relationship was strained because Ambre saw her grandmother and aunts as the parental figures in her life.
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Doreaha decides to leave her daughter in the care of her sisters when she feels the urge to explore again. While her daughter never hated her for leaving, having the same desires to see the world, the relationship was strained because Ambre saw her grandmother and aunts as the parental figures in her life.
While her older sisters are busy with their families, Yara wonders if she will find love herself. With her family distracted, she wonders further outside of her family's settlement than she is allowed, and she meets Eliar. Yara is entruiged by the idea of romance more than anything, and is blind to the fact that Eliar's family is planning to steal from hers. Yara and Eliar sneak out and share their first kiss. Eliar then reveals to her that his parents have arranged a marriage for him, which he is unhappy with. Yara is furious with the era's custom to let two people's love be decided by outsiders, and she offers to run away with Eliar if he wants to. 
Eliar eventually convinces Yara that they are too young to take such a risk. Eliar marries his bethroted after finding out his family needs his fiancées money to avoid stealing from Yara's family.
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Eventually one pregnancy reaches full term and Lysra does give birth to a son, Dorrick. Shortly after the birth of Dorrick, Benam’s little sister goes missing and her lifeless body is found dead in the river. Ayla will later reveal she killed the child because it clung to her while Lysra and Benam were occupied with their newborn.
Yara accidentally stumbles upon their former meeting place and she finds Eliar there at the grave of a small child. Eliar tells her his wife and child both died and he can not find reason to live. Yara kisses him, remembering how it brought her to life when he first kissed her. Yara brings Eliar to her house, and the environment brings back the sense of family that Eliar thought he lost when his wife and child died. He asks Yara if she could ever love him again, and she states she never stopped.
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Ayla notices her family blaming her for all the wrongdoings and misfortunes that happen to them, Ayla becomes more and more withdrawn, and shows no interest in marriage or affection towards her family despite being older than most of her sisters when they married and started a family.
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Yara and Eliar's relationship brings forward a son, Nathar.
Shortly after the birth of their son, Eliar’s family visits the child, which scares Eliar because his family has returned to their prior financial position. To make matters worse, Eliar’s mother despises Yara and the child because Yara and Eliar were not married. Yara's mother comes to her daughter’s defence, and asks Eliar’s family to leave. That night, the crops and cattle of the witches gets slaughtered by Eliar’s family. 
The witches band together and curse Eliar’s family for ruining their home. This results in the first vampires, the first coven, who were cursed to only feed on the blood of the animals they slaughtered.====
Ayla is 20 when she and her family curse the first coven. The rush of energy from the bloodmagic gets to her and it reminds her of the rush when she killed animals or Benam’s little sister, and eventually also revealing the memory of killing her own father: Ayla recalls surrounding him with so much magic he could not handle and died.
When the Ancient Witches realize that in creating the first coven they endangered themselves and their family, Ayla reveals to her sisters she has the power to kill them all. The girls mother is terrified of her youngest daughter's proposition, and instead prepares the family for her plan to create a new world where they can be safe from vampires. 
When her sisters protest to leaving the rest of the world to the mercy of the monsters, Ayla accuses them of hypocrisy when they all let her succumb to the monsters too resulting in who she is now. The sisters eventually see no option but to execute the plan of their dying mother.
After burying their mother on the island Andros, where she was said to have been born, the ancient witches create a portal to the magical dimension. Ayla is one of the first to travel through, and watches how Karden dies shortly after travelling through the portal. When the same happens to Cercilia’s boyfriend, Ayla wants to warn them that the portal is not safe for humans, but eventually decides not to say anything. She watches how Marcyn and Jakor struggle to get through the portal and die minutes after arriving in the new land. She is intruiged by how long Benam lasts, but eventually watches him die too.
===Surviving the portal===
While her sisters grieve the death of their husbands, they ask Ayla if she can bring them back since she can control death. 
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Athen is able to bring his daughter Dayana to the new world, but loses his wife Ilyana in the process.
When he asks his aunt Ayla if she can do anything to bring Ilyana or his father Marcyn back, Ayla tells him there is nothing she can do. Arving comforts his twin brother Arving who lost his pregnant wife Meya. Ayla finds Arving’s wandering son Miltar at her feet. Arving quickly takes the child away from his aunt, telling the child Ayla is evil.
Ayla suggests the name Malina for Cercilia’s daughter, who is the first child born in Magicae.
===Queens of Magicae===
After grieving the loss of their family members, the ancient witches decided to explore the land and they each separated into different corners, which would later become the kingdoms.
Myrya, Samyra, Nerilla, Lysra and Yara all became queens of their respective kingdoms between the ages of 45 to 35 years old. Meanwhile Ayla and Doreaha had no interest in being queens. Ayla first tried to convince her sister Yara to return to the human world for the sake of Eliar. Yara refused to, but Doreaha gained interest in returning to the human world.
Ayla decided to kidnap her great-niece Malina in order to sacrifice her to the vampires in order to spare their lives. Doreaha agreed to take the child at first, but when they arrived at the portal she changed her mind. She sent Ayla through the portal by herself, and then closed it off. She told her other sisters that Ayla had died and that they were now safe of the dark spirit that their younger sister harboured. Malina was safely returned to her mother Cercilia.
===Crystal energies===
All six remaining Ancient Witches died as queens, and passed down the throne to their oldest living heirs. Their magic was channeled into magical crystals, that maintain a pressence in the coronation ceremonies for the new royals of the Magical Dimension.
===Return to the homeland===
On her deathbed, the youngest surviving witch Yara expressed a profecy that 100 years after her death it would be safe to return to their homeland.
The families decided to gather from the different corners of the magical dimension to test the profecy in order to travel to a world that neither of them had ever been in. Four members of each of the 6 surviving bloodline were chosen and sent through the portal.
After arriving at the other side, they concluded the portal did not kill them instantly on passing through. However in the following days 15 out of 24 selected young adults died, with the remaining 9 weakened to the point where they could not return and ask for help.
The 9 remaining travellers found themselves having to try and survive in the human world, where they were weakened by the lack of magic. They tried experimenting with magical herbs and practiced their magic in an effort to grow stronger.
They would later become known as the first royals and they survived in the human world while staying under the radar of the first coven, the enemies their ancestors had fled from. Meanwhile the magical dimension was left unsure if the portal had worked and many families were left with no heirs, which resulted in a division between upper-class and lower-class families.
==Members==
===In-laws===
The following marriages took place in the home world of the witches:
Samyra and Marcyn
Myrya and Karden
Nerilla and Jakor
Lysra and Benam
Karden, Marcyn, Jakor and Benam all die by travelling through the portal to the magical dimension.
Eliar gets killed by the First Coven, his own family. It is unknown who the father of Ambre was, and it is also unknown who the father of Ayla's children was.
===First Generation===
The following witches and wizards are descendants of the Ancient Witches:
* Ambre, daughter of Doreaha
* Cercilia, daughter of Myrya and Karden
* Athen, son of Samyra and Marcyn
* Arrell, son of Nerilla and Jakor
* Arving, son of Nerilla and Jakor
* Dorrick, son of Lysra and Benam
* Nathar, son of Yara and Eliar
Cercilia, Athen and Arving all lose their significant others by travelling through the portal to the magical dimension.
===Second generation===
* Miltar, son of Arving, grandson of Nerilla
* Dayana, daughter of Athen and Ilyana, granddaughter of Samyra
* Malina, daughter of Cercilia, granddaughter of Myrya