Legend says that about a thousand years ago, ancient powerful magic was rediscovered by mighty magicians, and hence came the breakout of what we call The Magicians' War.

The powerful and deadly magic employed by the magicians during the war brought total chaos and destruction to Terra. Almost everything was destroyed, and the continued use of such dangerous powers eventually drained all mana, the source of Terra's magic. The war not only brought disaster to the magicians, but also to all life forms on Terra (since nobody was able to win a decisive victory) Almost all magicians perished in the war, and with all mana exhausted, the few magicians who managed to survive were no longer able to cast any of their spells.

Surviving civilians blamed the magicians for causing such annihilation and killed them mercilessly. Those magicians who survived both the war and the civilians' revenge hid themselves in desolated places. Magic was lost and eventually became forbidden. A millennium passed since The Magicians' War and the horrible memories of war slowly faded away. The once depleted mana was restored during those years. As magic returned to Terra, the world was once again divided into many small nations fighting each other over the control of the continent No one knows who was the first to bring back the lost magic.

Whoever it was, however, must have had one goal in his mind: to revive the glorious days of prestige that the ancient magician once possessed. Even with the restored mana, these new magicians could not completely revive the magicians' society to its previous state. However, they were able to start researching the once lost magic, even though it was forbidden by law. More and more lost arts were discovered, and armed with their new weapons, the magicians began to crawl their way into the center of political power. They started off as aids to kings and generals, and eventually took over the countries to themselves...

As the nations began to fall apart into even smaller countries, the magicians gained more and more power. Gradually, almost every country in the continent of Terra was ruled by magicians, and those which remained, if any, were at the verge of breaking down. At last, the magicians became the dominating force of Terra again.

As one of the magicians in this world, you must build up your own country and be ready to ward off any invasions from other magicians by recruiting armies and researching ancient magic especially the Apocalypse, the ultimate magic known to have the power to reshape the entire world. Although nothing is known about this ultimate magic, it is believed that the bearer of the Apocalypse has the ability to destroy all enemies and reshape the whole world into whatever he/she wishes....

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