History of the World

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Throughout history, the world has undergone many significant changes. One of the most dramatic shifts occurred during an event known as the “Great Annihilation.” This event was a game-changer, altering not just societal structures but the very fundamental laws of existence. As such, the period before the Great Annihilation, known as the Age of Order, was so distinct from the present that it seemed almost like an entirely different world.

*Note: It is important to note that the terms 'today' and 'present' in this context refer to August 14, 1900, as established in Chapter 50 "Public Vision". All relative timestamps are calculated from this date. It is imperative to consider this reference point when interpreting any time-sensitive information.*

## Age of Order

Historical materials from the Age of Order are fragmented and scattered, making it challenging to piece together a coherent picture of that time. Despite the efforts of numerous dedicated scholars, the confusion and disorder embedded in the remaining records make it almost impossible to distinguish truth from myth. Consequently, understanding of the world during the Age of Order is frustratingly incomplete.

Though there is no unified academic viewpoint regarding the Age of Order, there exist alternative or ‘folk’ histories in various city-states.

### Myths and Legends Regarding the Age of Order

#### Records of City-State of Pland

The City-State of Pland has a document dated 1069 in their new calendar system. The original text is unfortunately lost, but the surviving transcription speaks of a world that was downright fantastical to the people living in the Deep Sea Age. According to it:

The world was a globe, suspended in an infinite ocean of stars. The night sky was festooned with celestial bodies. Humanity lived on three distinct continents; one of these was enshrouded in ice. Ingeniously, people constructed ‘the Dome,’ a mechanical marvel that encapsulated this icy land, rendering its climate an ‘eternal spring.’ This Dome drew its power from mimicking the sun and operated on a special substance found in seawater, providing an almost endless source of energy.

#### Stone tablets on a rocky island near a frigid port:

The etchings on stone tablets tell of a ‘Mother Star’ that had been exhausted. Inhabitants traveled aboard an immense starship named ‘Abinixus,’ which moved through this celestial sea. The ship gathered its fuel from cosmic dust and gas and had been on its voyage for an astonishing 47,000 days and nights before it was swallowed by a ‘gigantic flash and vortex.’ The ship was torn asunder in this celestial maelstrom, and its survivors somehow lived on in seawater, recording their ancestral memories in subterranean caves.

#### Elves of the Wind Harbor

The elves, being long-lived, should in theory have the most detailed and reliable histories. But for some mysterious reason, their historical accounts are the most fragmented and illogical. Many of their ancient texts have been rendered unreadable, corrupted by some unknown force into ‘lost volumes’ that had to be sealed away.

According to the epics that are orally transmitted among them, before the Great Annihilation, the world was essentially a dream. It was conjured during the twilight sleep of a great demon god named Saslokha. The elves existed within this dream to sustain Saslokha’s peaceful slumber. When the demon god experienced a nightmare about a great flood, he woke up abruptly. This flood then transitioned from the realm of dreams to actuality. As Saslokha vanished upon awakening, the elves found themselves in a new, harsher reality. They settled in the era of the deep seas that followed the cataclysm.

### Theories regarding the Age of Order

#### Brock Bendis School's World Drift Theory

According to the World Drift Theory, their ancestors, who lived 10,000 years ago, came from a variety of different worlds and civilizations. The Great Annihilation wasn't so much an extinction event but rather an event that stranded these divergent groups of people, each with their unique histories. The nature of the Great Annihilation can be closer to a sort of 'mass teleportation' connecting different realities or even universes.

#### Clark School's Theory

The Clark School believes that the convoluted history is the result of corruption in Subspace.

#### Villentium School's Theory

The Villentium School argues that the world existed as a matrix of isolated, individual compartments or 'lattices' before the Great Annihilation.

#### City-State of Bologna's Theory

The residents of City-State of Bologna flatly deny that a world existed to the Great Annihilation, claiming that any so-called historical texts are merely illusions conjured up by shadows in Subspace to deceive people.

#### Enders' Theory

They worship Subspace and preach that the apocalypse is imminent. In their view, history is merely a trailing shadow of reality, and Subspace corruption will eventually distort and erode the truth until the world collapses into subspace itself.

#### Beneath the Sea Theory

Some people have speculated that the 'old world' might actually be hidden beneath the waters, somewhere between the Deep Sea and what is referred to as Spirit World.

The basis of the theory is the numerous ancient texts making mention of a 'starry sky' in the world that existed before the Great Annihilation. But this same 'starry sky' serves as a sort of intermediary realm, situated between the Deep Sea and the Spirit World.

## The Great Annihilation

The event known as the Great Annihilation is believed to have taken place approximately 10,000 years ago. Though there exist certain discrepancies in the historical accounts of ethnic minorities such as Elves, Dwarves, and the Orcs due to their unique calendrical systems, most archaeologists concur that the Great Annihilation transpired after the Age of Order, ten millennia past.

It serves as a demarcation line in the chronicle of civilization. No one truly knows what life was like before that stage. All that remains are contradictory accounts, mythologized by various city-states. It is an 'Event Horizon' in the flow of history.

## Eternal Night

In the initial years after the Great Annihilation, the vestiges of the Old World suffered substantial losses, with entire civilizations teetering on the brink of extinction. Among the emerging powers, the ‘Ancient Kingdom of Crete’ takes precedence in historical records as the first and most significant entity. Despite its existence lasting for merely a century before succumbing to collapse, its influence reverberates through successive generations. The rudimentary categorization of anomalies in the world carried out during that time set the groundwork for the more sophisticated system today.

The ancient texts of the Kingdom of Crete provide some insight into the world before the arrival of Vision 001 and the subsequent Deep Sea Age. These records describe a world trapped in an unending night, with the sole source of illumination being a faint glow from the sky, an event they referred to as “World’s Creation”.

## Deep Sea Age

The era that succeeded the Period of Eternal Night is recognized as the ‘Deep Sea Age,’ which perpetuates until today with no foreseeable conclusion. The most prominent feature of the Deep Sea Age is the overwhelming dominance of the sea, enveloping almost the entire planet, with less than 10% of the previous era’s landmass surviving. Every existing city-state now inhabits various islands, with seafaring vessels serving as the primary mode of inter-settlement communication.