User:NeloAngelo/Redstuff/Chronology

Short summary of events until with Nelo's "first death". Spoilers I guess.

Twilight of the Sky

 * Ruger reboots Aethersphere and seals it off, drawing a permanent divide between Aethersphere/Aether Atmosphere. As a result the flow of magic (Aether) on earth became rapidly diluted for the following years. Ruger's actions are never recorded in any annals of history, and due to the closeness of the events, the "fall of magic" is eventually attributed/associated with the death of Red Eye Argence instead.
 * Aether armaments became impractical weapons due to the high energy consumption no longer being compensated by Aethersphere.
 * A majority of Mythoids began turning inactive, then slowing crumbles away into Ghost Butterflies.
 * Stronger variants entered a crystallization phase, which would later be known as Sky Pillars.
 * The innate ability Clear Eyes is also weakened as a result (though still usable); subsequent generation have less and less said ability manifesting, and by the third generation, the ability has become completely dormant. This led to said Clan also losing considerable influence.
 * The innate ability Clear Eyes is also weakened as a result (though still usable); subsequent generation have less and less said ability manifesting, and by the third generation, the ability has become completely dormant. This led to said Clan also losing considerable influence.


 * Those born under Aethersphere are later recorded as "original generation".
 * Because of Red Eye Argence's seal on Nelo that suspends his aging, Nelo is approx. 5 months~1 y.o. He starts aging at this point. A such, he's an oddity where his "time" began advancing after Aethersphere's reboot.


 * Eventually what remains of magic is later known as "mana" from new research.
 * Perhaps due to the cut-off of Aethersphere's influence, reports of successful cloning of animal tissue/protein based on the Old World sparked up from all corners of the world. The earliest being an Old World common source of meat known as "chicken".
 * In correlation, the sea also began producing aquatic lifeforms similar to those seen in Old World.
 * Old World cookbooks, once considered useless due to the difference(/lack) of cooking ingredients suddenly hit a popularity surge.

Remnant Red

 * Franz and Faye adopted two children left behind by the "Red Eye Goddess" and a "Nameless Monster" named Mana and Nelo respectively.
 * None of the children referred either adults as parents, as Faye puts it "I'm too young to be a(your) mother"


 * Incidentally, a few years later, Franz and Faye would have children of their own, which one of them created the MAG system.
 * Despite born pre-collapse of Aethersphere (an "original" generation), Nelo was born with a defect - namely, he cannot establish link to magic tools/machines.
 * Mana, also an "original generation" inherited a fragment of Distortion blade which was implanted by Ruger stave off her risk of becoming an Aether-vessel, which also gives her Discoloration syndrome.
 * Although Nelo cannot use magic, he nonetheless absorbed as many information about magic studies- from new, old to even natural (Faye's Clear Eyes ability)
 * Mana exhibited high talents in martial-arts. In the age of 14, she studied under Seu and quickly became his top student in mere 2 years.

Bureau's End

 * Julian and Seion each took over half of the Bureau, just as the deal they made on Bito's death. Julian took the eastern soil, while Seion took western soil.
 * Between the two empires, Iolanta and Franz's port acts as in-between of their international business.

Agalia

 * Julian then carved out his empire "Agalia" from blood, and he would rule Agalia with an iron fist for the next 4 short years.
 * Julian's ruthlessness saw Agalia quickly built itself into a superpower, but he goes down in history as a tyrant.
 * The entire ~4 year tenures of National Disunion War also happened during Julian's rule.
 * Julian would later willingly step down and passes his role to Weir, where Agalia records his reign as nothing short of noble and kind.
 * In actuality, this is part of Julian's plan to lay down a solid foundation ASAP so Weir to lead peacefully, ushering in a new era.

Machina

 * Seion retains the Associations' resources, including their advanced machinery, and for that instant, they are considered the most technologically advanced place on earth.
 * Seion opted for a more peaceful reform, and abolished Association's system and replaced with a more democratic one. His kingdom would be known as Machina.
 * Seion's decision to abolish the Association doesn't go well with many, in particular with Clan of the Clear Eyes.

National Disunion War

 * In subsequent years, Agalia would develop a reputation of an xenophobic empire ruled under a iron fist, while Machina developed a reputation of a benevolent place accepting all walks of life.
 * The decay of Aether as a power source and collapsed Machina's economy to the point to causing a national crisis.
 * This coupled with the increase of human population from immigration, Machina was struck with a national crisis that nearly sparked into a civil war.


 * The Clan of Clear Eyes agreed merge under Agalia, becoming naturalized Agalians. Since the land they own are geographically apart from Machina to begin with, they are able to retain their landownership and the position as the upper class.
 * The Clan's action resulted in them becoming unpopular in Machina, a fact that Seion has no qualms using to unite the public by focusing their disdain to it.


 * While the economic strife is the main issue responsible for National Disunion War, official history records the Clan's departure, hence the reduction of territory was the *official* reason due to it being the last straw, also as Seion's last "fuck you" to the Association as a whole.
 * Agalia's main force involve infantry from holdover Knights, while Machina's forces consists more of war machines.
 * On paper, Agalia's appears as the weaker side, but Machina's machines, most which are heavily dependent of Aether to function heavily crippled its operating efficiency; whereas infantry forces of Agalia has already intensive training/experience from the Knight organization holdover.


 * The "anchor" of Red Aether that replaces Lydia passes away, reactivating the inert Red Aether.
 * Without Aethersphere's stabilization, the Red Aether quickly mutates, gaining additional property of inducing Grotesque transformation.
 * This became Red Plague 1.0, which only induce Grotesque transformation on human corpses.


 * The Red Aether quickly spread into the atmosphere terrorizing all corners of the world, including both Agalia and Machina. A truce is hastily signed due to the rapid increase of Grotesques from casualty of the war and the diminishing of morale.
 * National Disunion War ends exactly 4 years during Julian's entire reign, and Agalia is generally considered the "winner" -whereas Machina became balkanized into 3 independent nations, Everia, Beovault, and Melius.
 * Nelo is approx 4~5 y.o by the time National Disunion War officially ends.

1st awakening

 * The Distortion seal implanted within Mana gradually weaken in the wake of Ruger's rebooting of Aethersphere, which greatly diluted the Aether-atmosphere.
 * In a fit of desperation, Nelo unknowingly activated the Red Aether dormant in him to save Mana, imparting a part of the Red Aether inside him to Mana as a "substitute" power source.
 * Upon his "awakening", Nelo finally gains the ability to use magic, albeit one locked only to a specific element (heat) and color (Red Aether) not unlike Discoloration Syndrome.
 * Subsequently, Nelo's hair bleaches out from stress, and his eyes "awakened" into a permanent red.


 * Upon research, it turns out Red Eye Argence tampered with Nelo's genetics, in particularly hard-coded Red Aether into his very DNA while she bore him inside her womb.
 * It is a mix of her tampering and subsequent untimely death that stunted Nelo's (magic) development.


 * Nelo's activation of his Red Aether causes a "ripple" on the Red Plague exposed in the atmosphere, and within 3 short months, the Red Plague became "agitated" and further mutates.
 * Originally infecting only corpses, Red Plague 2.0 now targets living beings as well.

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