| The Creation |
| In a world much like ours, everything is different and everything is the same. This world, this dimension is known as Styre. Not all of the resisdents of that world know that name, but many others do. And in that lies our story..... Long ago there was only one dimension, Styre. The early people of that world were very sensitive to magic, and it was their way of life. But in their quest for power, they forgot their Creator, and lost his favor. He sent a flood to destroy all things except a blameless, magicless man, his wife and children, and two of every animal. The three highest seers had a preminition of the coming of the flood, and pleaded with the Creator to not send this disaster, for while many magic-users were wicked, there were others who were good people. He refused, but decided to allow them to make a new dimension, the Dimension of Dreams, Chrystalina. And he placed a human to guard, protect and rule this new universe, as the Queen of the first world of Chrystalina, Lilamel (the ancient word for "the Queen's Land.") The descendant of that first monarch still sits at the throne. The monarchy is matriarchal in nature; thusly the heir is the first born daughter, rather than son, making the Queen more important than the king, which is why it's the Queen's Land, not the other way around. The three seers then created more kingdoms to rule and protect all of the magical creatures of before. These are the Twelve Kingdoms. They occupy four sub-dimensions known as the Four Lands: Upper Lilamel, Lower Lilamel, Upper Lilunmel, and Lower Lilunmel. Chrystalina is much larger, however. Anything that one can imagine exists in one of Chrystalina's infinite sub-dimensions. As soon as a Stryon citizen dreams of a possibility, it exists in Chrystalina. Every story ever told is real there, from fairy tales to comic books to movies, to everything in between. There magic still lives, along with unicorns, dragons, and every fantastic thing ever thought of. This means that one could visit Never, Never Land, dance with Cinderella, or fly an X-Wing with Luke Skywalker. Styre, for many generations, remained pure and devoid of magic. Yet, after some time it became so bland that the Creator himself let the first magical creature fall through the barrier that separates the worlds. Ever since that day, there has been a sect that resisted the infusion of magic into the world. They are the �Sons of Noah,� a group that exists to this day. While they don�t actively do anything to magic people, they are not friendly to them either, and tend to live in communities with each other. They are the only known pure descendants of the Styre left. They are the reason that the existence of Chrystalina remains secret in Styre. Anytime a magic-person (also called the Majoi) reveals itself to a large group of people who don�t know about Chrystalina or its people (these people are called The Ignorant by the Majoi), the Sons of Noah will hunt the teller down and execute them. This is sect is known to have instigated the Inquisition, so they are not a group to be trifled with. Most of the Ignorant, whether they know it or not, do have at least one ancestor who immigrated from Chrystalina. Wars break out between races, or between dimensions, or between Kingdoms. On more than a few occasions, the survivors of the losing side, if they can blend in with humans, flee to Styre to escape the wrath of their enemies. Very recently, descendants of refugees of just this sort have been manifesting strange powers with no president. These unfortunate people are called the PEOAs (People with Extra Ordinary Abilites) and their equally unlucky ancestors were the Talaartains. Now, in Styre, there is much unrest between those without EOAs and those with. The citizens of Chrystalina (well those that know of Chrystalina�s existence, anyway, most sub-dimensions remain isolated from each other) look upon the tension in Styre with great distain, and probably with a little fear. Most Majoi dislike non-magic peoples, and they use the current intolerance of the Ignorant as easy justification, although the real reason is deeper and more complicated than that. |