Chronology: Difference between revisions

| [[Magic Academies]] are created.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 245: Chronology}}

| Magic Academies unravel the fundamentals of magic. From then on, magic begins to spread among the populace, and becomes a commonly used technology.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 245: Chronology}}

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

|Some young wizards become fiercely opposed to the continued election of landed lords 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 wizards, dissatisfied with the corruption within the Magic Academies, form an underground revolutionary group known as the "Blue Order."{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 245: Chronology}}

| A massive revolt by the Blue Order breaks out in the Cathedral City (Blue Revolt). They occupy the Central Magic Academy with the aim of abolishing the power of the landed lords within the institution, and creating free and independent Magic Academies. However, the Blue Order is destroyed overnight by a large-scale sealing magic attack seen across the city. Eighty percent of the citizens living within two of the city's wards are used as catalysts for the sealing magic and die as a result. Meanwhile, the survivors go insane. Work begins to bury them alive.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 245: Chronology}}

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

| Finally, not a single Magic Academy director across all the Magic Academies is a lord. Although the Magic Academies found their independence, they also lost all support from landed lords, leading to their somewhat ironic decline.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 245: Chronology}}

Independent magical research is ongoing. It is uncovering all the secret arts that were forbidden by the Magic Academies, and the balance of magical power in Europe grows unstable.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 245: Chronology}}

| Experts within the Church of Angels establish the [[Institute of Priests]]. They compile research from the former Magic Academies, and conclude that the world will collapse if countermeasures are not put in place.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 246: Chronology}}