...That's everything I experienced here in Britain.[sr]To sum up:
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＠Mash
There have been two iterations of the Fae Eras.
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＠Mash
Aesc the Savior has been alive for six thousand years, and she's also actually Queen Morgan.
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＠Mash
And while Aesc wasn't capable of it, as Queen Morgan,[sr]she's able to Rayshift things.
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＠Mash
Finally, Aesc also referred to herself as “the faerie of paradise.”
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＠Mash
Does any of that help?
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＠Da Vinci
Definitely. If nothing else, I now have a pretty good idea as to how the Era of the High Queen[line 2]that is, the current era Faerie Britain came about.
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＠Senji Muramasa
You do? I didn't get it all.
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＠Senji Muramasa
My only thought after hearing all that was, “I guess Japan ain't the only island nation whose people had nothing better to do than fight each other.”
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＠Da Vinci
Believe me, that's got nothing to do with being islands. It's pretty much the same in Europe.
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＠Da Vinci
Wherever there are territorial, religious, and/or class differences, you're going to get war.
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＠Da Vinci
That said, since an island nation obviously doesn't have to worry about invaders as much thanks to its lack of adjoining land, that warfare does inevitably end up being waged among its own people.
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＠Da Vinci
But even so, there's something off about this Britain.
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＠Da Vinci
Sure, it's had more than its share of problems, like the lack of land, lack of humans, and a different ethnic group taking up residence in the form of the northern faeries...
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＠Da Vinci
But even so, they should have been able to put aside their differences and come together as a nation sooner.
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＠Da Vinci
And yet, it sounds like there was no end of war all during the Fae Era, no matter how many times the savior smoothed things over.
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＠Da Vinci
Do you know what the cause of that[sr]constant discord was, [%1]?
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？1：The calamities?
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＠Da Vinci
Sorry, but no. Those are definitely one of the main[sr]triggers, but there's still a deeper issue at play.
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？2：The faerie of paradise?
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＠Grímr the Sage
That's right.[sr]The faerie of paradise, Avalon le Fae.
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＠Grímr the Sage
In addition to the clans' turf war, their main dispute was what to do about her. Their opinions were split right down the middle.
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＠Grímr the Sage
But before we get into that, I think we'd better clear up what exactly the faerie of paradise is.
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＠Grímr the Sage
Isn't that right, Altria? Go on then.
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＠Grímr the Sage
It's about time you told them the duty you've known about sinc[line 2]no, the duty you were given when you were born.
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＠Altria
...
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？1：Easy, Grímr. You don't have to be that hard on her.
？2：...
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＠Altria
Y-you mean I didn't tell you already? Th-that's weird. Guess it slipped my mind, haha.
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＠Altria
Okay, I can tell you now then. It's not like it's any big secret, after all.
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＠Altria
As you can probably guess from the name, the faerie of paradise is a faerie that was sent here from Avalon[line 2]the planet's inner sea.
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＠Altria
The duty part, though... That's a little vague.
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＠Altria
When I was born, I heard a voice telling me “Venture into Britain and right its wrongs.”
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＠Altria
That's it. That's all I got.
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＠Altria
I think it must have been the same for my predecessor... The faerie of the lake.
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＠Altria
Apparently, the faerie of paradise is a star seed that washed up on Earth's surface from paradise.
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＠Altria
If she's lucky enough to take root on the surface,[sr]she then becomes an infant of sorts...
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＠Altria
...and keeps growing like a human until she reaches her mature form.
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＠Altria
Most faeries seem to either love her or hate her for that.
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＠Altria
Aesc[line 2]I mean, Morgan, must have been a star seed when she washed up in Orkney all those years ago.
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＠Altria
The Rain clan's leader then raised her as her daughter, which ultimately led to Orkney being destroyed.
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＠Altria
In my case, I'm guessing I first washed up in the Lake District, after which the Mirror clan leader threw me out to sea.
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＠Altria
It was probably sheer luck that the faeries of Tintagel found and rescued me.
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？1：So, the clans saw the faerie of paradise as their enemy?
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＠Altria
Well, yes, but not all of them.
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＠Altria
If nothing else, the head of the Rain clan raised Morgan like she was her own daughter.
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＠Grímr the Sage
Though that also led to the other clans putting aside their differences just to wipe them out.
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＠Grímr the Sage
It's the upper-class faeries with the most prominent bloodlines who most hate and fear the faerie of paradise.
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＠Grímr the Sage
And that's because[line 2]
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？1：They don't want her to form a new clan?
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＠Senji Muramasa
Hmm, I don't think that's it. We've already got the King Clan coming in to kind of replace the Rain clan, after all.
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＠Senji Muramasa
So seeing how there've been clan changeovers before, I'd guess it takes more to inspire that kinda hatred.
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＠Grímr the Sage
Right on. Remember what we said about outsiders before?
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？2：She wasn't born in Britain?
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＠Da Vinci
That's right. The faerie of paradise may be a faerie, but she's not a British faerie.
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＠Da Vinci
As far as the clans are concerned, both Morgan and Altria are invaders from a foreign land.
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＠Da Vinci
Well, more specifically,[sr]they see them as the isle's rightful heirs.
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＠Da Vinci
The Rain clan heard the voice of paradise and decided to follow the faerie of paradise.
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＠Da Vinci
They believed Morgan was truly[sr]meant to be the isle's king.
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＠Da Vinci
For them, the pilgrimage was probably a ritual meant to return Britain to its rightful king.
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＠Da Vinci
But the other clans[line 2]Wind, Earth, Fang, and Wing[line 2]refused to accept that.
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＠Da Vinci
Instead, they all banded together to destroy the Rain clan and their hometown of Orkney.
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＠Mash
...Right. That's the fall of Orkney that took place in Fae Era 4000.
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＠Mash
But the faerie of paradise survived that attack and began a journey to save Britain under the name Aesc.
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＠Da Vinci
Yup. That was probably the key point.
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＠Mash
How do you mean?
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＠Da Vinci
Let's go over the whole timeline briefly, to make sure we're all on the same page.
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＠Da Vinci
I hope you don't mind, Altria, but it'll make things easier for us if we use the B.C. method of counting.
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12,000 B.C.: The British Lostbelt, a world comprised solely of faeries, comes into existence.
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11,000 B.C.: This is probably when[sr]the first Great Calamity struck.
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6000 B.C.: Britain's landmass grows out as far as what we call Scotland.
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The southern faeries encounter the northern faeries, who had been living off the woods formed on Albion's remains, and the War of Spring begins.
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After the war, the Rain clan and Mirror clan build their own kingdoms where the war was fought.
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4000 B.C.: The faerie of paradise washes up at Orkney, which is summarily destroyed by the clan alliance.
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2000 B.C.: The northern faeries arrive on British soil once again from Ireland to the west.
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＠Da Vinci
This leads to the War of Summer, which would have wiped out the clans if Aesc hadn't stepped in to broker peace.
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The northern faeries are then welcomed into Britain as a new clan, the King Clan.
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400 B.C.: The War of Autumn. The Round Table[line 2]a group of humans and human sympathizers[line 2]begin an armed uprising in the name of peaceful coexistence.
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＠Da Vinci
This leads to Uther, a human knight, being recognized by the clans as the first king of Britain.
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＠Da Vinci
But then, in Londinium, on the day of Uther's coronation, a group of insurrectionists destroys the Round Table.
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＠Da Vinci
Uther is poisoned, Aesc is executed, and the savior is never seen in Britain again.
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＠Da Vinci
And finally, we come to 1 B.C.:
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＠Da Vinci
The year a Great Calamity wipes out most of the faeries in Britain, and puts an end to the Fae Era.
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＠Da Vinci
That's a rough timeline of the major events of the Fae Era based on all the information we have so far.
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＠Mash
...
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＠Senji Muramasa
So? What's this key point you mentioned?
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＠Da Vinci
What else? The point where the timeline diverges into a first and second version.
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＠Da Vinci
In the first version[line 2]the original timeline...
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＠Da Vinci
...the faerie of paradise must have been killed in Orkney during the massacre in 4000 B.C.
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＠Da Vinci
In that timeline, Britain experienced a number of catastrophes...
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＠Da Vinci
...and in 1 B.C., it ultimately became a completely dead wasteland.
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＠Da Vinci
There may have still been a few straggling survivors, but the land would never again gain the numbers it needed to flourish as a seed.
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＠Da Vinci
I'd guess that for the next two thousand years or so...
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...it became a vast wasteland where lower-class faeries were just barely able to eke out a subsistence-level existence, with nothing in the way of civilization.
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＠Senji Muramasa
But if the faerie of paradise survives the attack in 4000 B.C., then we get Faerie Britain we know now, huh.
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＠Senji Muramasa
...Gotcha. So she really is protecting[sr]Britain, at least technically.
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＠Grímr the Sage
That's right. Over ninety percent of the faerie population was wiped out by the Great Calamity of 1 B.C.
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＠Grímr the Sage
That's when the debt they incurred at Londinium finally caught up to them. It all happened on an unprecedented scale.
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＠Grímr the Sage
There was the Calamity of the Beast, which devoured the faeries' cities, and the Calamity of the Flame, which razed everything to the ground.
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＠Grímr the Sage
According to the first Grímr's notes, those are the two calamities that ended the British Lostbelt. However[line 2]
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＠Da Vinci
We still don't know how she did it, but it was after that all went down that Morgan began a new era.
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＠Da Vinci
She must've used a spell powerful enough to wither the whole damn Tree of Emptiness.
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＠Da Vinci
That was when she stopped the British Lostbelt from ending there and revived it as Faerie Britain.
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＠Grímr the Sage
Yup. When she did, the faeries who'd nearly been driven to extinction came back as their next generation successors...
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＠Grímr the Sage
And just a few months later, things were back to normal, with the clans at each other's throats again.
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＠Grímr the Sage
That was when an invader appeared. One that had all the faeries quaking in their boots.
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＠Grímr the Sage
She came from Orkney, Britain's long-forgotten north, and storms came with her.
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＠Grímr the Sage
Once again, the faeries banded together to try and kill her, but she was far stronger than all of them combined.
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＠Grímr the Sage
And so, the invader dominated all of Britain's faeries herself, and built the castle of Camelot beside the pit as a sign of her dominance.
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＠Grímr the Sage
That invader was Morgan, and the war her invasion began was the War of Winter.
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＠Grímr the Sage
It's the event that ushered in the first year of the Era of the High Queen, or 1 A.D. in Proper Human History.
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＠Grímr the Sage
But, so what?
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＠Grímr the Sage
However she might've ended up there, Morgan's still a threat to Proper Human History, and must be stopped.
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＠Grímr the Sage
So as another faerie of paradise like her...
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＠Grímr the Sage
...you're the only one who can defeat her and return Britain to the way it should be.
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＠Altria
R-right... I-I guess so...[sr]Hahaha...
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＠Altria
Um... Oh, what do you think, Mash?[sr]Do you want to fight Morgan?
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＠Mash
I... I did think of Aesc[line 2]I mean,[sr]Queen Morgan, as a friend...
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＠Mash
...but I'm still willing to fight her.
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＠Mash
I promised Boggart, Rob, Wag, Winky, and so many others that I would save the faeries of Britain.
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＠Mash
I will try talking to her first, of course. But if she won't listen, and fighting is our only option, then I won't hold back.
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＠Mash
I may be Aesc the Savior's friend, but I'm not one of Queen Morgan's knights.
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R-right. Of course.[sr]...Man, she's so responsible...
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＠Habetrot
Are you done talking now? Then hurry up and ring the bell so we can get back to Britain already.
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＠Habetrot
I don't know about you guys, but I've had enough of this cold. Plus, the others are probably worried about us.
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？1：Oh, right! Habbycat!
？2：That's right! Habetrot is here too, Mash!
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＠Mash
Oh? I'm sorry, I didn't catch your name.[sr]Habe...trot, was it?
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＠Mash
You must be one of the faeries who's been helping Senpai out on [&his:her] journey here. It's a pleasure to meet you!
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＠Habetrot
Thanks, but you really don't have to be so formal.[sr]I'm just kind of along for the ride.
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？1：Huh? Habetrot?
？2：What's going on?
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＠Habetrot
What's there to say? This is how it is.
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＠Habetrot
I mean, when did I say she and I were friends,[sr]or even acquaintances?
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＠Habetrot
I'm just a guide, that's all. And now that my job's done, I can go back to taking it easy.
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＠Da Vinci
Huh? I mean, sure, you did just kind[sr]of show up out of nowhere...
