The Human-Monster War

## The War

The exact reasons for why the Human-Monster War broke out have been lost, with the leading theories being a secretive religious crusade that likened monsters to demons, or the death of a human king that was either carried out by a monster or made to look like it was [1]. The monsters united under the Dreemurrs while a coalition of humans including the norse, who knew the way across the Atlantic, banded together through their collective fear and hatred of monsters.

The war spanned the entire world and was so destructive it was the equivalent of the burning of the Library of Alexandria combined with World War 1. Technological advancement was set back significantly, which is why 2016 of Ask Frisk and Company is so different from our world's 2016 [2]. Religion was not a primary motivator the for conflict but it did help in a role in how the humans justified attacking the monsters [3].

Wizards fought for both sides [4], but the war ultimately ended in a victory for the humans. Following that, most of the events of our past did happen, but with some details and dates being different [5]. Humans that hunted monsters would arm themselves with weapons created by wizards and monsters to kill more effectively [6].

### Fronts

**Canada:** The Canadian front was primarily the Vikings and their allies [7]. Due to the fact that the people from the old world were here for war, the majority of the indigenous people staying out of the way to avoid getting attacked and the soldiers didn't care to interact much with them, which is why the Great Dying did not happen until european settlers came to the americas centuries later, bringing the diseases that would kill most of the native population [88]. Those native americans who did side with the monsters were killed [7].

**Ireland:** The Irish weren't involved directly in the war and adopted a live and let live stance when interacting with monsters. As a result, when the monsters went into hiding, a lot of information about them lived on in superstition leading to a mixture of fear and respect for sites related to them [8].

**Japan:** Japan's involvement in the war was minimal, since they refused to allow angry armed foreigners into the country [9].

## The Barrier

The Barrier was created by the last seven members of a wizard's guild. On the eve of the final battle, they offered to seal away all the monsters beneath Mt. Ebott with a bubble of energy [10]. While the Human General distrusted magic, he knew it would reduce the number of causalities in the war, and so he gave them all they needed to cast the Barrier spell and ordered his men to drive every last monster they could find underneath the mountain before the Barrier was put in place. The wizards then created a prophecy to leave the monsters a way to destroy the Barrier, and the added strain on top of creating the Barrier killed them.

The alliance of humans fell apart once the monsters were dealt with [11].

### The Angel's Prophecy

*"One day, an angel who has seen the surface will descend into the dark. They will free monsterkind, and the underground will go empty."*

This prophecy was written on a cavern wall in latin. The Angel's Prophecy has done several things in order to ensure it fulfills itself. It likely prevented a major earthquake from hitting Mt. Ebott during the monster's imprisonment [12]. In addition, the prophecy seems to have interpreted the word angel to mean "child of non-binary gender" and miraculously, eight non-binary children fell over the period of a hundred years.

The Angel's Prophecy focused its attention the region around Mt. Ebott, and when Chara got close enough, it decided to make their life so hard that they wanted to die and arranged for rumors of Mt. Ebott as a place to disappear at to reach them while simultaneously protecting them from actual dangers. Finally, when Chara fell, the Angel's Prophecy manipulated Asriel into wandering toward the place they fell [13].

It was more than willing to be fulfilled during Chara's genocide run, even assisting them in their massacre. Upon Frisk resetting back to the beginning of their time in Mt. Ebott, the Angel's Prophecy was initially furious [14].

## References

[2] http://askfriskandcompany.tumblr.com/post/155247128507/actually-let-me-revise-my-last-comment-so-chara
[3] https://askfriskandcompany.tumblr.com/post/649104430163279872/do-any-monsters-have-a-cult-what-if-the-war-on
[4] http://askfriskandcompany.tumblr.com/post/178157352107/is-sorcererssorceresses-is-a-separate-thing-from
[5] http://askfriskandcompany.tumblr.com/post/181861908532/so-you-said-that-human-history-was-vastly
[6] https://askfriskandcompany.tumblr.com/post/613593414084296704/where-did-the-idea-that-you-needed-silver-to-kill
[7] http://askfriskandcompany.tumblr.com/post/182920599092/if-mount-ebott-is-located-in-canada-who-did-the
[8] https://askfriskandcompany.tumblr.com/post/670795649859698688/ireland-doesnt-pave-over-fairy-circles-even
[9] http://askfriskandcompany.tumblr.com/post/174272693687/hrm-just-thought-of-something-japan-has-the
[10] http://askfriskandcompany.tumblr.com/post/158556872687/sorry-but-how-dose-that-make-sense-exactly-if
[11] https://askfriskandcompany.tumblr.com/post/671447483841396736/so-did-the-norsemen-seal-the-monsters-underground
[12] https://askfriskandcompany.tumblr.com/post/181493849312/before-frisk-freed-them-how-did-the-monsters-deal
[13] https://askfriskandcompany.tumblr.com/post/619441175023222784/at-what-point-did-the-angels-prophecy-start