Coalescence
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The largest and most devastating event to happen in all of history.
Its cause is widely debated. Its consequences are far reaching. Worst of all, the damage it has caused to not one, but two worlds will be everlasting - as long as Amalgia can survive.
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Defining the Coalescence
What was it?
Generally speaking, the Coalescence was a near-cataclysmic event that spanned across two realities.
Across those realities, the unnatural phenomenon was localised to two planets: Dyrethreed in one reality, and Materis in the other. These two planets were forced to merge with one another, thus resulting in the present world of Amalgia. It created a strange combination of planets - their environments, natural laws, wildlife, and people.
Amalgia does not sit in either reality. Rather, the world now sits somewhere in between, not as a tangible entity in either reality, but as a remnant of the worlds that once were.
The event itself was very sudden.
It was like suddenly finding yourself trapped in the eye of a storm, with chaos unfolding all around you. No one from either planet was safe from its clutches and the chaos could be seen across every inch of the two planets.
The storm that was the Coalescence kept building, and building, and building, until a sudden flash flooded the skies. A sickening boom echoed across the planets.
And as a gargantuan crack opened across the sky, two worlds would become one.
What Caused It?
To truly understand the cause of the Coalescence, one must understand the connection between the worlds of Materis and Dyrethreed.
The souls of these two worlds share a bond known as an Echo. A rare phenomenon that can connect souls across universes. Usually, Echoes (or Echo Souls) are shared between individuals, and a common side effect of this is having dreams revolving around the life of your Echo Partner.
For such a thing to occur on a planetary scale is very rare. It means the side effects for an individual residing on the planet are muted, but anything that affects the balance of one world will have disastrous consequences in the other.
And if that event affecting the balance of the world was, well, world-ending? Then the partner world would suffer the same terrible fate.
It all started with Dyrethreed and a great war between the Dyrus Houses.
Whilst wars were not exactly uncommon on Dyrethreed, none were quite like this one. Each and every Dyrus House came to play a part in the conflict and, with so much magic being used to fuel the fires of war, it was only a matter of time before Dyrethreed began to see the fallout of it.
Though the war ended eventually, by the time the Houses agreed to peace, the damage was already done. The rampant abuse of magic had imbalanced the soul of Dyrethreed.
Few could see the true damage wrought. Fewer still could see the world’s imbalance falling further, becoming more Positively Aligned with every passing day. Only one dared to attempt the impossible to fix it: Krysanthe.
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Krysanthe, facing the death of her world, was desperate to right the wrongs of her people. She searched for a way to rebalance the world for years, but her search was not an easy one. The amount of Charged Negative magic she would need to save her people was immense.
It took time to gather. Along the way, friends were sacrificed, offering their very souls with the belief that what Krysanthe was attempting would save the rest of their loved ones from death. Krysanthe herself became a recluse, fearful that others would attempt to stop her.
When she felt as though she had gathered enough magic, she took it to Dyrethreed’s largest External Magic Reservoir (EMR), known to her people as the First Source. She poured the stored up magic into the First Source, Charged Negative magic attacking Charged Positive magic like a rabid animal.
Only Krysanthe had miscalculated.
In her desperation, she poured too much Charged Negative magic into the First Source. It was too much all at once. The sudden reaction, a shift of Dyrethreed’s soul from one extreme to another, caused a ripple effect across universes to its Echo World.
The imbalance carried across the bond. Materis felt the damage done to Dyrethreed, felt the damage now being done to its own soul, and sought a single recourse. To destroy the soul of the other world in a bid to save itself.
As charged negative magic flooded the First Source, two worlds were flung into destruction, and so the Coalescence began. The First Source exploded outwards, upwards, becoming the Rift that would tear through the now joined skies of Materis and Dyrethreed.
And no one would know why except for the woman who, in seeking to save her world from destruction, drove it closer to its death.
The Aftermath
The Rift in the Sky
The most obvious consequence of Krysanthe’s actions is the one that looms, ever ominous, within the sky of Amalgia.
It can be seen from every inch of the world. The Charged Negative magic pouring from it can be felt for miles, and the resulting Rift Sickness that can occur from coming into contact with the Rift or one of its Anchor Points has killed more Dyrus and Materians than infighting between the two species ever could.
Not only that, but with every day the Rift remains open, it continues to imbalance the alignment of the world.
A New and Unforgiving Environment
Amalgia has the unfortunate task of trying to balance the environments of two very different worlds.
Storms are unpredictable. Natural disasters occur with more frequency, with a deadliness previously unseen. Weather can change in an instant, without rhyme or reason. Not only that, but the Materians and Dyrus have had to adapt to regions vastly different from the ones they once knew.
For the Materians, there is an additional twist. Magic in Amalgia runs rampant and free. It is a force that the Materians were not privy to, suddenly being used against them by the strange, so-called invaders. Whilst the Dyrus have the upper-hand with magic, they have had to do some adapting of their own, since channelling it now works a little differently.
The New World
Patches of the land may seem familiar, but most of it has been warped into a combination of Materis and Dyrethreed’s landscape.
Well walked paths that one may have known before twist and turn in different directions. A forest may seem denser than it once was, or perhaps the trees begin to thin when you least expect them to. A trip across the ocean on a route well sailed could lead you down a vastly different current.
Slight changes. Everywhere. Enough to confuse even the most seasoned traveller. Relearning the landscape, rewriting the maps, has been a challenge for Materians and Dyrus alike.
An Impending Destruction
The greatest consequence is the one that most have yet to see. For Amalgia is dying.
In Krysanthe’s attempt to save her world, she has doomed two worlds to a deadly fate. Though the soul of Materis is trying to save itself, destroying the soul of its Echo Partner will only succeed in signing its own death warrant.
The way to save the world is to rebalance it, accepting that what once was is now lost. But do the people of Amalgia have the strength to do this? Or will they run out of time?
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