Masters of Monsters

Summoner History is also that of the monsters.

Wild Monsters were first found during the time before. They often congregate in places high in magic or energy of some kind. Interestingly enough summoning is easier in these places. It is unknown where the first monsters came from.

Summoners first appeared in the time before rarely, like a few other ability users, before the ancient times when more appeared. Summoning was often done with basic things to create monsters. During the age of myth, summoning circles were discovered to be useable in summons, and things changed considerably. Along with a certain Alchemist, a certain summoner created monsters using a circle to make them wild. This populated certain places and made the more dangerous to guard something. But more on normal summoners. They discovered they could use almost anything to summon with if they had the right skill level. Metal, food, tools. Anything. This led to a wider variety of monsters and some would even battle each other to see who could make the better monsters.

Times were good, until they began to become bad. You see, normal people fear monsters. Slowly the days of myths ended, and the days of superstition began. Non-ability people hunted monsters so much you could only find them in high magic places. Luckily only ability users went to those places. For summoners it was hard. No longer could they summon monsters out in the open.

Summoners wouldn't be able to summon as much as they used to. Many went into hiding, but others banded together. Secret places were created to do battle, but they were often mostly empty as other ability users went into hiding. Things just weren't the same.

As it began to turn into an era of secrets and hiding, these clubs where monsters battled attracted a few ability users. Some Fighters even wanted to battle monsters. So they changed these hidden areas to allow anyone to battle. They weren't widespread but they did exist. These would be the first places where ability users battled in an official sense. Most of the time before this it would be informal or small. This was something else entirely.

These places continued to be used even during the era of light. Though many ability users traveled a lot during this time, sometimes they would come back to these places once used.

Then during the end of the era of light something happened. A summoner got into an argument with a mage, an alchemist, and a mechanic over who's ability would be better.

An Enchanted came and changed everything, they began to have more official contests. It was like the secret era again but better. Many of the old battling sites were changed an places where ability users could gather and compete began to form. Built by ability users, some of these places could be hidden underground or have impossible geometry.

An so the modern era has come. But there is more to the story.

As ability users work together, new things are being made, and that means different monsters are now possible that couldn't be made before.

Now lets talk about the ability. Summoners are an interesting lot because they can make monsters! Not only that, the monster variety is as huge as the large number of things that can be used.

It's easier to summon something from a statue made of Summoner Stone. There are also carvings made of a certain type of wood that can be used. Outside of that, even foods can be used to summon things, and the things change a lot even with simple additions.

A summoner can usually control about three monsters at a time.