Dark Ages (Prime Universe)

Svartalfheim

* Myrkheim

Avalon

* Neverland
* Redcap Storage Facility

### Outcome

The Dragon Council, Vampire Council, and Wizard Council join forces to lead the Magical Community together in hiding, creating Magic Sectors to stay away from Human-Kind. Werewolves, Vampires, and Liches join the Magical Community. Humans form an Anti-Magic Community called the Knights of the Silver Crescent

## Major Events

### Battles

Rampage of KrampusForging of the Dark Dragon
Attack of the Big Heads
Curse of the Night
Rise of the Vaewolf
Fleeing Discordia
Kidnapping of Ruby Hood
Kidnapping of Cain
Creation of the Redcaps
Magic Isolation Act of 906

The Dark Ages was the start of modern creature society marked by numerous magical experiments leading to dangerously unforeseen consequences. Due to the rising antagonism between Humanity and the Magical Community, Creature Kind was forced to hide themselves from the Terrans in magically isolated sectors. However, humans began to develop an army against magic.

## Background

### Massacre of the Egyptians

Thanks to the Egyptians falling out of favor with Ra, and stopping their worship of him, Ra sent his daughter Sekhmet, the Ennead Goddess of War to thin out the heretics and show his followers a lesson. However, Sekhmet did not stop and killing heretics. All of the Egyptian people were in her crosshairs and she made quick work with them. She was eventually stopped by her father by consuming alcohol disguised as blood, causing her to end her conquest from being too drunk to attack

### Invasion of Midgard

#### Spreading Mischief

While many Faeries came to Earth in search of Baldr's joyful spirit, others traveled there to explore the developing Terran race. However, the Fae quickly became magical nuisances, using their magic and connection to nature to play pranks or, at times, attack Terrans and abuse or kidnap their young. Not only did this reawaken humanity's knowledge of magic and of creature kind but it awoken their fear and hatred to the dangerous monsters that live among them.

#### Forced Piece by the Æsir

Eventually the Asgardians and Vanirians traveled down to Midgard as well after hearing word from Heimdall of the technical invasion. The Numen gods used their power and divinity to push the Fae back to their home realms, introducing themselves to humanity as well, eventually forming Norse Mythology. While most Fae left Earth, others decided to stay, and lived among humanity as friendly guardians.

### Rudolph the Bullied Reindeer

The Joulupukki are a race of deer-like magical animals who live at the Earth's North Pole. Two of them, Blitzen and Vixen, had a child together, which they named Rudolph. However, Rudolph was born with an abnormally large bright red and glowing nose. Because of his nose, Rudolph was abused, bullied, and shunned by his fellow Joulupukki and even by Boreans like Santa himself. Even his parents tried to coverup and ignore his unique nose. Eventually, Rudolph, fed up with his peers relentless abuse, ran away from the North Pole and welcomed Darkness into his heart. The Darkness corrupted Rudolph, turning him into an Anti-Santa, who kidnaps and beats children. Krampus was born.

### Subjugation of The Creature World

#### Hunting for Humanoids

In the Magic Dimension, the Serpopard of Disharmony, Discord, swiftly took control of the planet known as Discordia. Usurping and banishing the king, Discord and his army of Draconequus began hunting down all humanoid creatures and either killing them or locking them away in the dungeon. A group of humanoid sorcerers, knowing they could not fight back, began finding ways to escape the Draconequus before they find them.

## Dark Ages

### Rampage of Krampus

Embracing the darkness in his heart, and his hatred for all things related to Christmas, Rudolph, now known as Krampus travelled around Europe and Asia punishing naughty children by beating them with birch rods, deafening them with clanking metal chains, and in extreme cases, kidnapping them, never to be seen again. Creatures were forced to step in to keep the piece like the Asgardians wanted. Many Faeries, using their shapeshifting ability, disguised themselves as the missing children until they "died naturally," becoming the first Changelings.

### Forging of the Dark Dragon

As Krampus ran rampant on humanity's children, the Dragon Council formulated a plan to bring him down. By combining six of the strongest Dragons into a single large, draco-locked being known as the Great Protector. The Great Protector was dispatched to fight Krampus, and after a great battle, they won, vanquishing Krampus and freeing humanity. However, Krampus acted as a conduit for the Darkness, and with him gone, the Darkness the Great Protector as its host, corrupting the Forged Dragon's mind and body, transforming it into a tool for only destruction.

Now known as the Dark Dragon, it took the place of Krampus and attacked Terrans and Creatures alike. It killed several humans just for fun, and absorbed the magic and the bodies of thousands of Faeries and Dragons respectively. Creatures scrambled to contain or defeat the Dark Dragon but to no avail. Those who tried were met with swift deaths at the hands of the former protector, while the rest were forced into hiding, some even being told to abandon Earth entirely.

### Attack of the Big Heads

With the threat of Krampus, now the Dark Dragon, and the trickery of the Changelings, the Terrans grew terrified and angered with the Magical Community. However, with no way combat the creatures as they are, they resorted to praying to the gods, the ones who helped them with their last magical issue. In Asgard, Loki hears the prays of the Midgardians, and uses his powers to block the Æsir from hearing them, specifically Heimdall. After getting the Dwarves to craft a magical mask, Loki traveled to Earth and gave the artifact to a strong human named Stanley Ipkiss. Upon wearing the Mask, Ipkiss' was imbued with fantastical reality warping power and his conscience, the super-ego, was suppressed.

Now as the Inhuman species known as Big Heads, Ipkiss made quick work dispatching the Dark Dragon by petrifying it, but he did not stop there. The Mask continued his revenge on creature kind in humanity's honor. He was eventually overpowered by the Magical Community, but the mantle of the Mask fell to another Terran who continued Stanley Ipkiss' crusade. The trade off continued for several wearers The powers from the Mask caught the attention of the Collector, a powerful entity who exists outside of reality. She traveled to Earth and to the current wearer of the Mask, Tim Avery. She engages the Big Head in combat and eventually wins, killing the Terran and stealing the Mask for herself.

### Curse of the Night

With the Humans depowered, the Magical Community sought out revenge. The Faeries combined their power to cast what would be named the Stygian Curse on Terrans and Terran corpses. In an instant, hundreds of humans were transformed into the first Creatures of the Night, better known as Stygians: Ghouls, Zombies, and Wolfmen, all of which are Cannibalistic Creatures. These cursed bodies have no humanity or soul, knowing only to kill and feed, specifically on their former fellow Terrans.

The Ghouls ran amuck in Egypt, killing all in their path and drinking their blood before moving out of Egypt to attack other Terrans. Graveyards across the world erupt with reanimated humanoids known as Zombies with a hunger for human flesh, specifically their brains. The Wolfmen were at first living Terrans but were cursed to transform into man-eating Dire Wolves. Humanity lived in fear of these monsters, and only the bravest were caught outside at night, where they made quick meals for the Stygians.

With Terrans hiding inside during the night, the Stygians turned to feeding on Creatures instead. The Magical Community fought back against the Stygians but the battle quickly came to a standstill. A Werewolf man approached the Dragon Council, named Victor Frankenstein and offered to help with their Stygian situation. Using his own evolved Lycanthrope DNA, and DNA from Dark Elves from Svartalfheim, Frankenstein was able to cast a second Stygian Curse. The second curse evolves the Stygians into intelligent creatures capable of magic. Wolfmen became Werewolves, able to transform between a humanoid and a large bipedal wolf at will. The Ghouls became Vampires, still having to feed on blood, but are more intelligent, humanoid and capable of magic. And the Zombies became Liches, undead sorcerers no longer hungering for living flesh.

### Rise of the Vaewolf

When Frankenstein cast the second Stygian Curse, he secretly kept a Ghoul and Wolfman alive. Using his genetic expertise, he combined the bodies, DNA, and powers of the Stygians into a single large and monstrous being called a Vaewolf. Frankenstein was unable to restrain the Vaewolf and it escaped his lab and began causing chaos, killing and eating all in its path. Frankenstein is found out by the Dragon Council and was about to be punished for his crimes. However, he managed to talk his way out of the situation by reminding them that only he can get rid of the Vaewolf, with the use of Magitech and other ingredients they must all collect. The Vampires, having learned of the Dragon Council's allowance of Frankenstein's harmful experiments, grouped together and founded the Vampire Council to oppose them.

### Fleeing Discordia

Humanoid magic users form Discordia in the Magic Dimension found a way to temporarily rip a hole through space. By using all of their magic, Merlin and the rest of the Witches opened a one-way portal to escape Discord and his Draconequus army. All of the Witches traveled through the portal to Earth, where they were caught in the middle of the Dark Ages, and the Vaewolf attack. Unprepared, many Sorcerers served as easy meals for the monster before the rest used their magic to fight it off,

### Kidnapping of Ruby Hood

Jekyll quickly befriends Merlin and the Witches and gets their their help to magically travel to Avalon. There, he hires the help of three Orc brothers to kidnap a few Faeries for his experiments. A young Sprite named Ruby Hood travels through the Avalonian forest towards her grandmother's house. Frankenstein and the Orcs intercept and steal away the young Fae. By stealing her Fairy Dust and using it to fly to the Second Star to the Right, a portal back to Earth, the Big Bad Wolf and his subordinates manage to narrowly escape Peter Pan's wrath with the young Fae in hand. After this, the doctor's able to use the Fairy Dust as a disguise to fly under Pan's radar and kidnap many more Faeries for his experiments.

### Kidnapping of Cain

Meanwhile, members of the Dragon Council travel down to Antarctica where the first murderer, Cain, currently is. As Cain attempted to heal his decaying body using the Tree of Regeneration, he is intercepted by the Dragons. He attempts to attack them, but this proves detrimental as this only accelerates his body's decomposition. The weakened Sinnerman is taken away from the tree and back to Frankenstein's lab.

### Creation of the Redcaps

With the Faeries in his possession, Cain subdued, the ingredients ready and a blood moon on the horizon, Frankenstein prepares for his next creation. However, after Frankenstein collected samples and magic from the First Blade, Cain made his attack, injuring and swapping bodies with one of the Dragons capturing him and escaping in a new, healed body, leaving the former Dragon to die. That aside, the Werewolf doctor combined the samples of the First Blade with the other ingredients and bathed it in light from a blood moon to create a magical serum. Injecting the serum into the Faeries' bloodstream, it causes them to mutate into programable, non-stoppable, killing machines empowered by the mark and curse of Cain, the Redcaps.

The Redcaps, lead by Red Riding Hood, were given the simple instruction to take down anyone who threatened Creature Kind, which they did with great efficiency. At first the Redcaps easily managed to overpower and murder the Vaewolf. But, their thirst for blood did not stop at the monster. Taking their instructions too literal, the Redcaps began massacring Terrans, thinking that they were also threats. Noting the flaw in the Redcaps programing, the Magical Community tried to stop the soldiers, only for them to also end up in the Redcaps crosshairs. Frankenstein was quick to stop the Redcaps, having hardwired a way to make them submit to him, part of a promise he made to Merlin. Seeing them as too dangerous, the Magical Community sent the Redcaps away to an isolated island on Avalon where they were cryogenically frozen in case they were ever needed again.

### Magic Isolation Act of 906

The Vampire Council reveal themselves and call out the Dragon Council for their enabling of Jekyll and his harmful experiments and their inability to properly protect the Magical Community. With Humans seeing creatures as nothing but violent monsters and technically owning the planet, they had the right to banish Creature Kind from Earth, and the gods will gladly oblige. Orlok, the leader of the Vampire Council proposes that they isolate all Magical Creatures into sectioned off regions of the planet and hide magic from humanity. With no other option, the Magical Community banned together to hide themselves and all magic from Terrans, creating the magical sectors, the largest of which being the Moors and Enchanted Forest.

## Aftermath

### Advancement of the Magical Community

Without any distractions, Creature Kind was able to further themselves much further than any human at the time. Combining their Magic with technology made them the most advanced civilizations on the planet, further than the Terrans would ever get.

### Lycanthropy of Beowulf

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### Founding of the Silver Crescent

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### The Dark One

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