Chronology: Difference between revisions

[[Miracle Performers]], or simply [[Performers]], bring order and social hierarchy to the Cathedral City.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 244: Chronology}}

The Church makes the registration system of Performers (now known as [[Magicians]]) a lot more strict in order to discourage them from rebelling. At the same time, research into "magic" is actively conducted.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 244: Chronology}}

| Due to a magician's out of control magic, a third of the city vanishes. The Church announces that this was suppressed only due to their research into [[Sealing Magic]]. (In truth, a Sealing Magic experiment failed, resulting in the magician's body enlarging until he was only a giant foot. The foot proceeded to trample the city's slums, killing 2000 people in a single night. The official announcement by the Church is as above.){{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 245: Chronology}}

| The Church Survey Brigade, armed with large-scale magical weapons approved by their attending magicians, goes on to conquer each self-governing territory around the Cathedral City. They begin to function as the Church's armed forces.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 245: Chronology}}

| Another Magic Surge Incident occurred during the construction of a Magic Academy. However, the damage was contained using Sealing Magic and only resulted in the death of two people: the magician whose magic caused the surge and the magician who cast the sealing spell.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 245: Chronology}}

| For the first time, the Director of a Magic Academy is chosen from among the Lords of the Land. This reveals the corruption within the upper echelons of the Church, as the Director in question is not familiar with magic at all. Magicians of the Magic Academies grow restless.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 245: Chronology}}

|Some young magicians become fiercely opposed to the continued election of Lords of the Land as Directors of the Magic Academies. They surround the Central Magic Academy in the Cathedral City and demand that the current Directors resign, but they are suppressed overnight. (White Revolt){{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 245: Chronology}}

| The poor, who are dissatisfied due to the food shortages, and the magicians, dissatisfied with the corruption within the Magic Academies, form an underground revolutionary group known as the "Blue Order."{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 245: Chronology}}

| The Blue Order begins to gain traction. Many young magicians and lords who are dissatisfied with the Church support their cause. The Cathedral City's weaknesses are exposed; specifically their lack of military equipment and human resources due to years of food shortages and bribery.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 245: Chronology}}

| Following the Blue Revolt, the number of magician applicants approved by the Magic Academies decreases sharply. The government and Church become more and more dependent on the military might of the Lords of the Land. Independent magical research and original magical research funded by the Lords of the Land becomes widespread. This leaves the Magic Academy and the Church in an uncertain position.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 245: Chronology}}

| An accident of unprecedented magnitude occurs at the Central Magic Academy in the Cathedral City. The specifics of the accident, which allegedly involved a chanting error during the casting female magician's use of a secret technique, are unknown. The dust from the resultant explosion was later described as a giant flower blotting out the night sky. The impact of the accident that engulfed the city was severe, with people vanishing from the city overnight, rendering it a ghost town. However, there was no major impact on the buildings and the like.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 245: Chronology}}