Bronzeland continent

The **Bronzeland continent** is one of Planet Earth's continents and the main setting of My Dragon System. It is also the place where the Talen, Dem, Sunshield and Graylash families originated, in addition to the Draconic Magical Beasts like the Dragons and the Wyverns. It was also called the Southern continent.

# Political Geography

Originally, the Bronzeland continent had 10 kingdoms and one empire. Before the Shadow Beasts appeared, the Crune Empire had conquered two of these Kingdoms and occupied 1/3 of the continent. When the Shadow Beasts appeared, one of the largest Kingdoms of the north fell. One of the Kingdoms that fell was the **Kindle Kingdom**, famous for its **Mindown fortress** located atop of giant trees. The fallen Kingdom to whom the **Lion's mouth** fortress belonged to was the Tower Master Roy's birthplace and was also reputed for its fire mages (which also suggests the Sunshield family could have originated there).

After Ray Talen's birth, there were now 6 kingdoms left and one empire.

* The Alure Kingdom in the east of the continent. Its capital is Roland, where lies the Roland Academy of magic. After the disappearance of the Dragon Knights, it became known as the weakest of the 6 Kingdoms and was bullied in trades, a situation that was sometimes blamed on its lack of high-level beasts, although it could be ironically the result of its past strength. Ray Talen's birthplace was a mining village at the south of the Kingdom, close to the border with the Crune Empire. During the events of My Dragon System, the monarch was the Queen Elizabeth, nicknamed Liz by her friends.
* The **Gala Kingdom**, that had many wars with Alure before the Shadow Plague
* The **Bently Kingdom** was once at war with Alure, which explains the abandoned town not too far from Kelberg.
* The **Cryterian Kingdom** was specialized in earth magic. Norah Sine was a princess from this Kingdom and also a prodigy in earth magic.
* The **Kingdom of Dunlock**
* The **Kingdom of Cylstenia**, led by the King **Hon**

* The Crune Empire, located at the south of the continent. Before the Shadow Plague, it conquered 2 kingdoms and ended up having one third of the continent. During the events of My Dragon System, the monarch was the Emperor Alexander. It was founded as 13 kingdoms that leagued and elected an Emperor among them. The internal balance of power was disrupted when a Dwarven ship arrived and gave to the Empire the Ancient Dwarven Cannon, but it allowed the Empire to survive an invasion from the neighbouring Kingdoms. With the loss of the key to activate the weapon, the Empire dared no longer initiate wars.

The city of Avrion was a special case. Although it was an outpost and a military academy created by the Alure Kingdom, it was located outside the borders of the Kingdom, and belonged to "a mighty beast too powerful for us to deal with", which might have been the Wyvern Glac. Glac only allowed this city to exist due to a deal with the Divine Being Bliss. This is why it was possible for the Red Wings guild to take possession of it, declare independence and found the Redwings Kingdom.

The area taken by the Shadow Plague was called "**Shadow Continent**", although it was just the northern area of the Bronzeland continent and not actually a distinct continent. At its maximum extension, the "Shadow Continent" covered all the northern half of Bronzeland. The grand fortress **Tenebris** was where resided the Shadow Dragon Krad and his Shadow Guards. Several other fortresses from the fallen realms were used to organize the Infected Humans and Magical Beasts into an army, or to house the members of the Dark Guild and their families. A lot of the Shadow Continent is covered in a thick blanket of snow.

# History

## Fall of the Dragons

One day, the young black dragon Krad let humans into the Dragon Settlement, against the advice of the Red Dragon King Sen that all Humans were evil. These Humans exterminated all the Dragons, excepted Krad, that fled, and Sen, that was absent. As a result, Sen went into a rampage. It is possible, although unconfirmed, that these Humans were manipulated by the god Immortui into doing that, in order set in motion the events towards fulfilling his divine condition of extinguishing all life.

The goddess Bliss then foresaw that the Shadow would attack the Bronzeland continent, and tried to take measures to prevent that from happening. At that time, she was passing for an adventurer and a witch, and would enjoy fending off creatures for the Humans. During her travels, she met 5 brave men, that would later become the Dragon Knights that would found the Avrion Academy. She also asked Betty to found the Roland Academy of Magic.

Humans approached Bliss to ask her to put an end to the Red Dragon Sen's rampage. Her investigation led her to discover they were related to the Shadow. It is however inconsistent with the fact the Shadow Dragon Krad looked up to Sen's rampage, which might suggest a scheme from the god Immortui.

Bliss lived for some time in a giant fortress made by Dwarves in glathrium. The Red Dragon Sen came to attack. She fired energy beams and hurt his right wing, and after he crashed down, she trapped his soul into a Dragon's Beast crystal. This happened about 120 years before the events of My Dragon System. Sen had then lived more than a millenium.

## Shadow Plague

### First Kingdom to fall to the Shadow Plague

After the Dragon Krad heared of Sen's death, he continued his work of exterminating all Humans, and the Shadow Plague grew into a problem the Human realms could no longer ignore.

The Shadow Plague started from the north of the continent. Humans believed it came from a different continent. It was in reality caused by the Shadow Dragon Krad, that used his Shadow Infect skill to possess Humans and Magical Beasts alike, curse the land and change water into lava.

The new Shadow Beasts, Magical Beasts powered up and controlled by the Shadow Infect skill, led to the fall of one of the largest kingdoms of the north. The reaction was incredulous. The other realms could not believe it and fought each other as usual without taking the menace seriously.

Although called a plague, because most infected Humans would die from the Shadow Plague and failed to become True Infected, so puppets similar to the Shadow Beasts, it is more accurate to regard the plague as an organized conquest by the Shadow Dragon Krad and other Demon-tier Magical Beasts, as the infected would become an army led by Shadow Guards, with a territory defended by fortresses. The Shadow also infiltrated the remaining Human realms trough an alliance with the Dark Guild.

### The goddess Bliss' plans to counter the Plague

The goddess Bliss told the five brave men she recruited that the crystal where the soul of the Red Dragon Sen was trapped was a type of god. She made them believe the crystal spoke to them and trough it, showed them visions of the grim future that would happen if nothing was done. She used the crystal to bestow them a part of Sen's power. These 5 men then became the five Dragon Knights. They founded the Avrion Academy to train knights of fight against the advancing Shadow.

The Dragon Knights managed to hold off the Shadow Plague for some time but eventually, they had to retreat to the fortress where Sen was slain. One of the knights, Albert, turned mad when the Dragon Hammer and him became infected by the Shadow. Before it was found by Albert, the Dragon Hammer had been lost for 300 years. As the Dragon Knights were all infected, they ended up killing each other in order to not become infected by the Shadow and prevent their Dragon items from being infected as well.

In the end, all Bliss' schemes to prevent the Shadow Plague from advancing failed, so she resorted to using a contract spell that reincarnated Sen into a Human, provided with a Dragon System that would force him to save Human lives to recover his thousand abilities, with the hope of turning the Dragon into humanity's saviour. That Dragon System was maybe designed by imitating the Celestial System, and reproduced its messaging system used between Celestials, and its marking system for designated followers. The goddess was then trapped in the crystal in the place of Sen, as price to pay for the contract.

The goddess Bliss thereafter lost her human form, but still gave commands to the Alure Kingdom and its outpost Avrion trough the crystal she was sealed in, and was the object of a religious cult. She was from now on known as the Divine Being. The presence of each her three fragments allowed the cities of Avrion, Kelberg and Roland to be protected from the Shadow Beasts. Her body reincarnated into a student at Roland Academy without her powers or memories, which is an unusual reincarnation for a Celestial as they would normally reincarnate whole.

### Truce between the realms of the Bronzeland continent

100 years before the events of My Dragon System, Lenny Steel wrote his books about the Magical Beasts.

50 years before the events of My Dragon System, the realms of the Bronzeland continent finally called a truce between them to prioritize the Shadow Plague. It was also 50 years before that Lenny Steel had written his books about the Dragon Knights.

### The Prophecy of a Red-Haired Child

Bliss' crystals revealed a prophecy that a red-haired child would either save or destroy the world. This led to a rush to find red-haired children in the Alure Kingdom. Some of them would end up praised as heroes like those of the Roland Academy (3 girls and 2 boys), while the rest of the Kingdom would persecute them and deem these as cursed. It's due to Avrion Academy's efforts to find red-haired children that Ray Talen was recruited in his village, like other red-haired boys like Ian, Kyle, Badger and Sloth. Although born with black hair like his mother, Ray fit the prophecy as his hair turned red, the same color as the Dragon Sen's scales. Those that opposed the prophecy and would rather kill the prophetized red-haired child were called the Purebloods.

The Dark Guild, backed up by the Shadow Guards, developed a serum to infect Humans with the Shadow trough injection. Another version of the serum, a potion administered orally, would also give the enhancing effect observed on Shadow Beasts but on Humans.

It was finally Ray Talen that discovered how to kill True Infected Humans by seeing trough the Shadow covering them thanks to his Dragon Eyes. He discovered they could be killed by piercing the real heart of the Human below while ignoring the shape in which the Shadow aura took form. The information was passed to the Avrion Academy then to the Alure Kingdom.

### Fall of Avrion and rise of the Red Wings

The conspiracy of the Purebloods and the Dark Guild, both backed up by the Shadow Guards, led to an attack by Morfran Graylash, leader of the Dark Guild to destroy the Avrion Academy for a personal revenge. Then, an army of Shadow Beasts destroyed the city of Avrion, but Ray Talen and his new faction of the Red Wings managed to save the Academy and rebuild the city, with the help of the Wyvern Glac. The city of Avrion was from now on held by the Red Wings.

### The Red Wings' campaign to reclaim the Shadow Continent

The Crune Empire's threats to attack the Redwings Kingdom, and its economic blockade trough the use of three guilds, led it to develop its agriculture. Since its territory was too small, it had no choice but to reclaim territory from the Shadow Continent. The Red Wings organized a campaign during which the goddess Bliss and the magician Lenny Steel would draw magic circles while using a secret potion made of Dragon blood to purify the land, while they would be protected from the Shadow Beasts that would oppose their efforts. It was the first time land was taken back from the Shadow, a feat only made possibly by Bliss' magical knowledge.

The Red Wings then organized a campaign against the **Lion's mouth fortress** (maybe the same fortress as **Gortheim** that Gary Bluebird mentioned?) to prevent a planned siege of Avrion. They were surprised to see its occupant, the Dark Guild, offer a surrender without a siege. It was of course a scheme. Unexpectedly, the Shadow ordered the infected Shadow Guard Gary Bluebird to use the Demon Gauntlet to open a portal to the Shadow "Hell" where the souls of the Dragons go to rest. This led to the appearance of a Black Dragon that would attack both sides of the conflict. The attempt to open the portal was thwarted when it was immediately sealed by Bliss. The Dark Guild's scheme failed due to the appearance of the Dragon, that attacked their side just as much as the Red Wings. The Crown Prince Van of the Alure Kingdom managed to slay the Dragon with a beam of Celestial energy. In the end, the Red Wings could capture the fortress unopposed. With Ray Talen's blood becoming more purely draconic, Bliss could reclaim further land from the Shadow Continent.

The Emperor Alexander of the Crune Empire then discovered that his Ancient Dwarven Cannon did not require any key to be activated, only blood from the same lineage as those the weapon was built for. He did a test fire and destroyed the **Mindown fortress** of the Shadow Continent. The Red Wings and the Dark Guild both investigated how this fortress was destroyed. During this occasion, the Crown Prince Van of the Alure Kingdom was kidnapped by the White Master Knight Harry, himself infected and possessed by the Shadow.

In the end, the Red Wings learned from the Dark Guild that the leader of the Shadow Continent wanted to use Van's Celestial powers to open a stable portal to the Dragon "Hell" and bring back the deceased Dragons on the continent. The Red Wings used their entire army to either rescue of kill Van before the portal could be opened, while defending Avrion trough a formal alliance with the Alure Kingdom. In the end, Gary Bluebird used God Slayer Sword to break the magical circle below Van Ray Talen used the same sword to slay the Shadow Dragon Krad. Krad left behind a God Slayer Crystal. Bliss urged Ray Talen to get rid of it, but he refused.

### Birth of the Vampires

When Lenny Steel witnessed the Shadow summon a Dragon from the Draconic "Hell" at the **Lion's mouth fortress**, he realized that his beasting did not suffice. Bliss foresaw that he would die in battle if he did not change.

This is why when he returned to Avrion with her, he used a Nest Crystal and a Magic circle to open a portal to the Red Plane. Trough an agreement with Immortui, he was turned into the first Vampire. It was only post-facto he realized that he had unleashed a new plague onto the world.

Lenny Steel used for the first time his blood aura against the two Demon-tier Shadow Beasts in the Shadow Guards in the final assault of the Red Wings on the fortress of Tenebris. However, it was Ray Talen that would avenge him by slaying Sena, the one that killed his family, with his Dragon Sword.

### The Aftermath of the Shadow Plague

After Krad was slain, the existing infected did not recover from the Shadow Infection, but new infected stopped to appear. The land however started to cleanse itself bit by bit.

The Seven Kingdoms organized several meetings and ended up partitioning the Shadow Continent between all of them, with the Redwings Kingdom having the first pick since it defeated the Shadow Plague alone. The Crune Empire was invited but never attended any of the meetings. The Empire closed its borders.

King Ray Talen saved several Human lives by intervening in natural disasters or beast attacks..

## Truce broken by the Crune Empire

Many years later, the Crune Empire was ready to resume its conquests and planned to conquer the six Kingdoms west of the Redwings Kingdom in only a week. Using the Ancient Dwarven Cannon, the **Kingdom of Dunlock** was destroyed overnight. The Redwings Kingdom immediately offered support to the next target, the **Kingdom of Cylstenia** by sending an army of 5000 with a teleporter. The entire kingdom and the two armies were obliterated, and only the Red Wings commanders Gary Bluebird, Martha, Monk and Lenny Steel survived. It turned out the weapon was activated by continuously drawing blood from Ray Talen's mother, Scarlett. Ray Talen destroyed the weapon, saved his mother, and in the process unlocked the last of his 1000 abilities and got back his dragon body. He chose this moment to disappear and abandon his Human identity.

## Closing of all the Beast Nests and loss of the ancient technology

Humanity eventually closed all the Beast Nests, leading to the extermination of all the Magical Beasts, which might be an unique case in the universe so far among the populated planets. The Human population grew considerably, to the point the Celestials would covet this particular population of mortals due to its size. Magic and Qi were almost forgotten, and monopolized by a select few families.

Humanity rediscovered the old forbidden magic called Beasting Process in the form of mixing old Magical Beast fossils with Humans, creating in the process superhumans called Altered. (Not to be confused with Superhumans, that have Magical Beast-like Abilities due to the Zombie virus.)

The Red Dragon Sen was still alive and a classmate of the Werewolf Gary Dem alongside Bliss, but shortly after decided to give up his corporeal life and donate his thousand Draconic abilities to humanity trough the Ability Tablet, enabling humanity to access magic in a more simple manner, without requiring spell formations or magic circles, and by giving to everyone the potential to be a mage.

The ancient technology based on Beast Crystals, in some respects more advanced and energy-efficient than non-magical technologies, disappeared.

## Dalki Wars in the 27th century

It is not known what specifically happened to this continent during the First Dalki War in the 27th century of the Gregorian calendar. However, it is known that the Dalki ships managed to sink large portions of the planet's continents with their energy weapons, or bounce back the nuclear missiles sent at them, reducing considerably the inhabitable area of the planet. Most cities were destroyed (including a city called London), and only shelters were left.

The first Vampire Richard Eno (Lenny Steel), caused the rediscovery of ancient Beast technology on Earth by teaching the planetary military about Beast Armors and teleporters, or Dwarven technology such as glathrium-reinforced walls, which were all remembered by the Vampires. During this era, Pure invented the fourth and fifth stages of Ki/Qi, Humanity discovered the Soul Weapons (the Mages of old maybe already had an Enhancement-type soul weapon with their Breakthrough). The Vampire Fex Sanguinis discovered the Inner Blood Weapons.

# Origins of several notorious families on the Bronzeland continent

* The Talen family originated from the Alure Kingdom. Jack Talen was an adventurer while Scarlett was a noblewoman and family leader candidate of one of the Crune Empire's member realms. She was studying in the Roland Academy of Magic and specialized in fire magic. They raised Ray Talen in a mining village south of the Kingdom, close to the border with the Crune Empire. Eventually, he will become the first King of the Redwings Kingdom.
* Eric Sunshield is a noble boy met by Ray Talen at the Avrion Academy, although nothing is said about the fire magic that family is famous for.
* Morfran Graylash was originally one of the Elders of the Avrion Academy that was untalented with the sword. He disobeyed the Divine Being Bliss' commands, researshed dark magic and was expelled for it. He created the Dark Guild to get his revenge on the Avrion Academy. He was one of the very few that could wield lightning magic, and it was so rare that at Morfran's time, no one had seen this magic been performed by a Human. Blake Dornway, from a famous noble family of the Crune Empire endowed in magic, also had the same lightning magic.
* Bliss mentioned that there was a Kingdom specialized in raising Magical Beasts as pets. This could be the origin of the Bree family.
* The Dem family gained notoriety when Russell Dem, a Human, found by accident an abandoned underground settlement, in which there was a chained Werewolf woman and Werewolf Yellow Armors that could power up a Human to five times his strength. He decided to build a secret underground city, Zrey (located near the town of Foset in the Alure Kingdom), that would breed and sell Werewolf slaves. He titled himself the mayor of the city. His Werewolf children obtained trough rape, Steve Dem and Jack Dem, would manage to escape enslavement, unlike Malik Dem. The first would join a pack of Human-hating Werewolves due to the trauma of his followers regarding Humans, while the latter, being an alpha, would create his own pack in the Human Redwings Kingdom.
* Lenny Steel originally lived in an area taken by the Shadow Plague, and his whole family was killed by the Shadow Guard Sena, that was a Demon-tier Shadow Beast. He was during his youth an average knight sent to war by the Dragon Knights and was obsessed with surviving, so he learned magic and how to turn any Human into a magician. In order to gain the power to have his revenge, he dabbled in forbidden magic and made a pact with the god Immortui to become the first Vampire. After traveling to find the other Original Vampires created by Immortui as a result of the pact, he changed his name for Eno. It later became the name of the Tenth Family of the Vampires, so he adopted the name Richard Eno.
* The **Sine** Royal family might have been the original family that had earth magic, long before it became commonplace following the First Dalki War.
* The **Heart** family of the Alure Kingdom was specialized in water magic, that gave to that Kingdom several generals and captains. Roland Academy's tower master and founder Betty also used bubble spells.

# Origin of the Dragons

The Bronzeland continent is also where the Dragons (Demon-tier Magical Beasts) originated from. According to Sen, the Dragons never went to the other continents of Earth, although the Two-Headed Dragon that served to create the Dalki one day flew to the Blade Island, being attracted by the Ability Tablet.

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