A very wild time

Once magic began to be understood and utilised consciously, the doors were blown open, and the tide came in. Those at the top began to battle with the new powers that arose while others schemed and made hidden deals to survive.

In some tribes those who became mages would lead the life of a scholar pushing the boundaries of understanding and knowledge. While others hungered for control and power and claimed the ranks quickly until they were either in charge or number 2.

This all happened 2 years after the first fire mage or as they called him for now a shaman named Gendrul. He was now a well-respected and feared member of the Crimson Guards clan. Many tribe leaders and clan bosses sent their children along with generous gifts to teach their children his ways.

This leads to chaos since those who didn't send their children or couldn't were worried about their neighbours growing strength. This caused an increase in the number of battles happening while another problem came in the form of elements. Once Gendrul had his first students finish their magical awake, they soon realised they had different elements.

The first batch of around a dozen mages quickly discovered the basic elements such as fire,water,wind,earth, and metal. Now, these all benefited from having these simple elements since they were much easier to interact with and understand.

This meant that for the very few who had more advanced elements, they may be more powerful, but it could take longer. Such as one son of a nearby tribe having the lightning element, which once they learned quickly hid him away before he could get assassinated.

Now, many may think this is all happening quite quickly. Shouldn't this take hundreds of years and many decades of research. Well, that is thanks to the Blues who were all mini Einsteins, and with hundreds of them spending all their time on the problem, things moved at almsot light-speed.

A typical conversation at the start of this magical revolution is the word 'obviously' since this stuff came so easy for them to understand. This would also later be called the blue wave since for a few years, the blues would be in constant estatic mood and running around discussing their findings.

So all this wild raving over magic caused divisons to start to form as a basic understanding of magic and how it works, and its forms were revealed. They still don't know about more than half of the upper types of magic, so the blues had more to discover. So now we have a good number of young,ambitious,naive, and powerful shamans, and what would you expect may happen.

Over the next 10 years, battles would change to accommodate shamans, and it wasn't unusual to see fireballs and boulders being thrown. While clans started to pick their favoured elements, they wished to excel in such as the Mountain Slammers wanting earth elements while the blooded Hydra wanted water.

The clans quickly realised that killing eachothers mages would only make them weaker to they had a peace deal signed. But by now, 70% of tribes were clanless, so they didn't have such a deal even if the clans were still the strongest.

The carnage got so bad that many worried about a hunt against shamans may start by those without magic. Luckily, with Jack's skills and help of the gods and some reasonable leaders, the chaos soon faded.

In the wake of this 12+ period of the magic revolution, over 30 tribes had been destroyed, and its people either wiped out or displaced. Many of these would resent what happened to them, and they soon found themselves being welcomed by the dark and the groups within them.

The new class of warriors and leaders came to be, and the shamans, as the current title at this time, came to be a respected and feared class of people. Those who seeked to be leaders were the ones to die the fastest as magic as it was currently wasn't complete. So you must spend all your effort understanding and find new things so being a leader takes time away from that. This led to them falling behind and being taken off the board.

The Apexian order had a great time as they used this as proof of the gods generosity and that the goddess of knowledge favoured them. They then went on to recruit any mages they could who would then be used as bodyguards and symbols of the gods wrath.

This was the downside of civilizations is their resilient and able to adapt but would more often than not be their own enemy. This revolution and its costs were great, but so was the reward as the longer they learned and studied, the easier the mages path would be.

There would be a cap, however, since they were in the game and like how there was a technology cap magic had the same. The magical ranks were as such:

Initiate: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Adept:1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Mage:1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Transended:1, 2, 3, 4, 5

At the moment, the strongest mage was Gendrul, who was at the 2nd initiate rank, but the world's cap while in the game was Adept 5. The time it would take to reach this would involve multiple facts such as the element,affinity, and current environment.

An earth mage with a high affinity could grow faster than a lightning mage with the same affinity because the lightning element is more complex, but in the end, the lighting would be stronger. Once you go into the top elements of magic is when those mages turn into walking monsters.

This time was also when the viewership would spike as it was an interesting time with many scholars and entertainers talking about it. Many were surprised the entire rixis civilization wasn't ripped apart and burning like many previous candidate races did in this situation.

"This is crazy I wonder what going to come next?"-Jack

"Well, we won't know, but let's hope it's something good and dream good thoughts"-Caer

"Yeah, but once again, please stay out of my head"-Jack

"Nope, I must make sure the creator knows his loyal children are watching him at all times for his safety"-Caer

"What could even hurt me here?"-Jack