Overwars

The Overwars were a series of battles that occurred in 1951 between the Mages and the combined efforts of Atori and Lazarus. It is often seen as the Apocalypse by some survivors and lead to the complete destruction of the Old World Civilizations. The planet is also plunged into a nuclear winter due to the detonation of all nuclear weapons in the world. This would lead to the new world being known as Darkworld and the beginning of a new era.
==Backstory==
In the 780s CE, the Dark Mage Atori was banished to The Afterlife following a skirmish between him and Methuselah. For centuries, Atori and the Afterlife Mage Lazarus become allies and work together in an attempt to escape.
In 1928, Atori creates his fellow horsemen, War, Famine and Pestilence after finding the Appyaren leaf five years prior. He then spent the next 35 years teaching them his plan and preparing for escape. Atori and Lazarus also enlisted the help of Deadsouls, who would act as soldiers.
==Preparation==
By 1951, members of the Mages had prior warning to an incoming attack from the Afterlife since the late 1920s. A generally lack of preparation due to a large amount of factors lead them to simply wait for an attack.
===Atori and Lazarus' escape===
Harnessing a great amount of energy, Atori and Lazarus were able to break a portal in the sky of the Afterlife. Allowing them to escape and the Deadsouls to wander the Overworld. With this news, the Mages were able to track Atori and Lazarus en route to Trafalgar Square in London.
==Battle of Trafalgar Square==
At Yggdrasil, Drasilia and Ankhor received news of this. Ordering Mellae to bring them to London. As the others arrived to the square, they were soon surrounded by a flock of thousands of Deadsouls, effectively creating a wall of certain death that surrounded them on all sides.
===Confrontation===
A small gap opened up, where Atori, Lazarus, and the other Horsemen entered the square from. After it closed, Atori explained that he found new purpose, one that didn't require counsel from Methuselah, who Atori blamed for countless things. Also not forgetting to call out the alleged failings that Drasilia and Ankhor made as his mothers. This hurt both of them, Ankhor beginning to tear up. Seeing this, Drasilia was tipped off, she started to run at Atori, using her abilities to try and trap him in stone. Everyone else began fighting too.
===Killing the Horsemen===
Methuselah began by taking out each Horsemen one at a time. First by aging Pestle backwards, preventing his viral spread and killing him. Second, freezing Wör in time for both her and everyone else. Finally, Methuselah stabbed Fami in the chest, leaving her to die.
===The Upper Hand===
Seeing this, Lazarus's attention was redirected to Methuselah, almost getting a hit until he was pushed away by Numaar. His flaming battle-axe kept Lazarus at bay, until Numaar was knocked down by Atori from behind, leaving him horribly wounded. With Numaar on the ground and vulnerable, Lazarus almost kills him, but is knocked away by Stolas. By briefly drawing power from the constellations, she was able to harness a deadly beam of light and directed it at Lazarus. He held it off with a makeshift shield crafted from parts of his scales, eventually a hole broke in it.
===The Decline===
Stolas stopped the beam and running towards Lazarus, forming a knife of energy around her fist. She grabbed Lazarus's head and drove it into his mask, creating the scar look on it and puncturing his skull a bit. It was not as painful as it looked, so Lazarus feigned agony, getting the upper hand, and grabbing Stolas' face. He then forcefully kissed her, draining her Lifeforce from her body, killing her. Meanwhile, Atori, seeing that his Horsemen are dead, orders some Deadsouls to leave the wall and attack the Mages. In doing so, many are preoccupied with fighting them, allowing for a distraction. Atori also orders one of them to pretend to attack him. It does, as witnessed by Ankhor. She could not bear to watch her son be killed, so she fights off the Deadsoul and frees Atori.
===Atori's Manipulation===
Atori then begins to cry on the ground, apologizing and saying that everything he'd done was a mistake. Ankhor believed this, and walked over to Atori, trying to comfort him. Drasilia at the last second saw that this was a trick, but she noticed too late. As Atori quickly dropped the act, stabbing Ankhor in the chest four times. Each time, the life on Earth suffered greatly, noticeably, the trees nearby all begin to fall over. Drasilia felt the stabbing and was stopped in her tracks. Given enough time, Lazarus drew a Nether portal by the steps and signaled for Atori to follow. He does, leaving Ankhor to die without draining her Lifeforce. Methuselah tries to pick up Numaar, though he says that they should hurry before the portal closes.
===Ankhor's Death===
Drasilia rushed to Ankhor and carefully sat her up by Nelson's column. Ankhor told Drasilia that she wanted to be held by her. Drasilia complied, reassuring Ankhor that she was doing to be alright as she stroked Ankhor's hair. Ankhor made Drasilia promise to take care of Mellae and Earth. She promises, beginning to tear up, and once again tells Ankhor that she loves her. With this, Ankhor slowly sat up with all her strength and kissed Drasilia. Willingly giving her all of Ankhor's Lifeforce and her Dominion over all Life.
Drasilia, overcome with emotion, cries out over the loss of Ankhor, who now has turned a lifeless gray color. Each wail resulted in a great blast of energy that destroyed almost everything around her. Methuselah had frozen the portal, ordering Drasilia to follow him through before she destroys the planet. At that moment, nuclear silos detonate due to Drasilia's bursts. She then runs to Methuselah and they both enter the portal moments before the National Gallery collapsed over top of it.
==Battle of The Nether==
===Grief Rampage===
When Drasilia and Methuselah entered the Nether, they were met by Lazarus and Atori whom seemed to be surprised. Controlled by grief, Drasilia began throwing every piece of netherrack that she could get her hands on at Atori. This time, he was trapped for good, unable to move under the mass amounts of pressure. Atori struggled to yell out for Drasilia, attempting to manipulate her as he did Ankhor. This did not work, however, and Drasilia only made the netherrack tighter.
===Almost Revenge===
Quickly moving past Atori, she ran head-on towards Lazarus. Not letting him be crushed, instead letting the pieces bounce off him from side to side. Lazarus was pushed almost off the edge of the cliff that would lead to a long fall into lava. Quick to mention it, Lazarus taunted Drasilia about Ankhor, stating that Drasilia never really loved her if she allowed her to be killed.
Setting her off, Drasilia fused two pieces of rock together and chained Lazarus's hands behind his back. Two more pieces of rock were sent towards him to crush his skull. Getting close, Lazarus's mask cracks under the pressure and shatters, revealing his black, voidlike face. Smiling, he says that Drasilia couldn't actually kill him even if she wanted to. Hearing this, Drasilia says that he's right, but that it wasn't for her. She then creates an obsidian spear around her fist and stabs Lazarus with it in the hip.
===Atori's Escape===
When this happened, Lazarus burst out for Atori to do something. As he said it, Atori created a large sphere of darkness that began eating away at the land. He enters it, seconds later it disappears. Methuselah tried to recreate the portal to find out what Atori did, but to no avail. Lazarus began laughing maniacally after seeing Drasilia's dumbfounded face.
===The Fall===
Letting the rocks fall off him, Drasilia delivers a strong kick of the spear further into Lazarus's hip, sending him off the cliff and into the lava. Before then, Methuselah just barely creating a portal to the Afterlife. Banishing Lazarus once and for all. What they didn't know what that Lazarus just barely made it into the lava beforehand, saving him.
==Aftermath==
===Escape from London===
Going back to Trafalgar Square, Methuselah and Drasilia take Numaar to Yggdrasil, noticing that the landscape is much more decimated than it was earlier due to the nuclear fallout. At Yggdrasil, Numaar recovers but is unable to use his left arm. Drasilia later finds out that she now has the Dominion over Life and swears to restore the damaged planet and to exact revenge for what Lazarus and Atori did. The others agree to lie low for some time, and to continue their search for the two Mages.
===Lazarus's Survival===
Some time after the battle, Lazarus was seen swimming out of the lava lake with several wounds and burn marks. He climbed up to a nearby ledge. Now without his mask, he had to find other ways of concealing his identity.
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