History 2

"The creation of Gensekai was a major turning point. In the same vein that we have B.C and A.D; years after the creation of the Gensekai Border is noted as A.G (After Gensekai)"

Pre-Modern Era
[Year - A.G 0] The new home of the Yokai, Gensekai was now sealed off. Of course, to think there would be no issues is naïve. With much of the Sages having to hibernate; the residents were left to their own devices. Scuffles for resources and territory were common. While most of the biomes were left uncontrolled; the Forest of Aether and Luxania Grasslands were under two different ruling regimes, the Moonflower Regime and the Arvane Regime. Two Elf Princess, Ethel the senior and Nellie the junior controlled the Forest, while Luxia the Great Fairy controlled the Grasslands. Luxia in particular is significant as she was the first Yokai Sage to awaken from her hibernation. It is also important to note that many other Islands exist far off from the Gensekai Mainland in what is called the Grand World, but their histories differ greatly depending. The following focuses on the Main Continent.

Incident 1: War of the Wicked Saint
[Year - A.G 40-45] Luxia had always been a bit of a control freak. The stress that came with managing an entire biome took a severe toll on her health and mentality; and her lower council of Greater Fae started to manipulate and feed into her growing paranoia and anxiety of uprising. Her judgment was corroded; and she became a figurehead of a conquest for power. Her soldiers moved in and brought about ruin into the land; Yokai lives lost even though they were innocent. Most of the biomes had no way of defending themselves; with the major exception of the Forest of Aether.

Both biomes were locked in battle for five years; and the atrocities Luxia's rule supposedly committed earned her the title of "The Wicked Sage". Luxia's mind had been manipulated so much that she had become a twisted shadow of the strong pillar of peace she represented. Ethel had decided enough was enough and led an offensive on Luxia's castle with herself as the leader. Almost 90% of her forces vanquished, but she she was able to pierce through the defenses of the enemy with her Legendary Bow and Arrow. Confronting Luxia, the two had a ferocious battle which ended on a bittersweet note. Both had dealt fatal wounds to the other, and Nellie could only arrive just in time to hold her dying sister.

Both passed away. Nellie was left sole person fill the void of power left behind. Nellie took it upon herself and established settlements all around Gensekai; starting a period of reconstruction that was met with little resistance. Many war criminals and the Greater Fae who had manipulated Luxia were sent to the Island of Gehenna for their crimes. Nellie made great progress; but eventually the grief and scars of the war were too great for her to bear.

She became a hermit and disappeared; her whereabouts currently unknown. In the wake of this; her most trusted advisor was placed to rule all of Gensekai under a strong rule. Tsuyoi Kanamoto. A dragonic Yokai called a Qilin. Filled with wisdom and charisma, he was given the sword of Luxia which helped to create the Gensekai border and he moved his site of ruling to the Hourisan Mountains; leaving the rest of Nellie's council to form the Moonflower Sisterhood.

Tsuyoi Era
[Starting Year - A.G 50-400] A rule that lasted for quite some time. Tsuyoi was the one who truly revolutionized Gensekai, properly organizing it's affairs and building a sense of community. The reconstruction Nellie had began finished strong under the eye of Tsuyoi.

A while after things had finally settled down; Year 200 A.G brought about a huge change for early Gensekai, humans were starting to pass through the border and wake up within it's world. All of these humans being magical or eccentric in some special way, or involved in supernatural events that whisked them away from the Outside World. The general population was apprehensive, and the Yokai who still held onto their values of humans being the ideal prey began to feast again on humans unluckily enough to find themselves within their territory.

Tsuyoi thought on this, and decided the best course of action was to take one of the nearby uninhabited islands and establish a settlement, Fernaba Village. This village is the current day capital of the Forsythia District. Any humans found were sent off into the village. He left human-friendly Yokai in charge to defend it from dangerous Yokai, and a ruling family of humans were put in charge. It was qlimiting; but the best solution he could come up with for the time period. Though, some humans who practiced enough magic were able to live out in Gensekai as they could defend themselves from attacking Yokai. Humans were still a very miniscule minority, and humans who passed into Gensekai are known as Ethereal Humans.

Over some time, Fernava became more fleshed out and divided among it's population. Relatively peaceful for some time.

Incident 2 - Wrathful Vines and Wicked Thorns
[Year - A.G 310] Close to a century later, during the spring season of Gensekai, the plant life of the region was beginning to grow out of control. With the effect mostly gravitating towards Fernava; where the humans found themselves fully constricted and having the life energy sucked out of them slowly. In an effort to buy time before things got too out of hand; Tsuyoi called upon an old friend of his from before the creation of the Gensekai Border. Vespertine Noctiphany, the leader of the Dream World, a Yokai Sage, and a Baku. She had just awoken from her hibernation and he incited her help as he visited her in the Dream World. Vespertine followed and sent all the humans into such a deep slumber that they could no longer have the life energy sucked out of them.

With this, Tsuyoi began an investigation but was interrupted, by one singular human appearing in his capital with a powerful flash of heavenly light. A lady with a divine aura arrived before his eye and she assured Tsuyoi she would handle the situation; but Tsuyoi in being involved in protecting his Kingdom personally. Her name? Diona. Diona was an Avatar; a manifestation of Freya Fernava that was formed when the Humans in Fernava city wished for a true guardian to protect them. Diona was born in the clouds of the Elysium Isle, which is connected to the Hourisan Mountains, where Tsuyoi had placed his capital. Shortly after, Diona and Tsuyoi worked together to find the culprit.

After some time, the culprit behind the incident was found, a hibernating Sage that had woken up, Anastasia Yukka. Anastasia was the Sage of Nature; a Yokai who symbolized the very concept of natural life. Upon awakening from her slumber, she flew into panic upon realizing humans had settled in Gensekai, viewing them as intruders to be quashed. In her hysteria, she caused the plant life to overtake them and began to drain the lifeforce to kill them off. Of course, Tsuyoi and Diona engaged with Anastasia,, and while she proved to be a formidable opponent, as she was one of the most powerful Sages to survive, she was eventually stopped by Diona. Being defeated by a human humbled Anastasia and she was calmed down enough to be told that Fernava was sanctioned. Embarrassed; she pulled away her original plan.

She created a magical Garden and called for anyone who wanted to live life in a place steeped with the essence of nature to follow her, and she did gain a fair chunk of followers. She preferred a more background position in Gensekai's culture and retreated into her realm.

Returning to Vespertine, Tsuyoi requested the humans be awoken once more. However, some did not want to leave the bliss of the Dream World and stayed behind. Diona arrived to Fernava shortly after and was heralded as a hero; a shrine was constructed in honor of her. Acting as a shrine maiden now; Diona's presence as a Yokai exterminator made many of the territorial Yokai who prowled around Fernava retreat back into only the most obscure and remote places in Gensekai. Humans were finally allowed to expand outwards and begin to overtake the rest of the Fernavian Island. Thus ending the incident.

Incident 3 - Dreams of Phobic Haze
[Year - A.G 400] This marks the year that marks the end of the official Tsuyoi reign of Gensekai.

One night during the winter season, the sky was filled with a purple haze. This would be a cause for panic if anyone was awake, but nobody would wake up. Those who had been asleep when the fog set in were unable to be woken up; and they all seemed to be trapped within horrible nightmares. Tsuyoi was awake at the onset of the fog and found himself unable to contact Vespertine. There was some kind of dark force preventing communication into the Dream World. In response, Tsuyoi went out on his own to solve the issue and searched for the help of Anastasia.

Arriving in the Jasmine Garden, Tsuyoi reached Anastasia, who was livid that her community was stuck in sleeping limbo, and vehemently accepted Tsuyoi’s request for assistance. Diona was also asleep at the time, and thus unable to be awoken. Anastasia called upon her new assistant and wife; Lola, to come and help the two. With the group now decided; Anastasia led them into the Keki Jungle. There, they reached the Dream Shrine located deep within it. Using the shrine, they were able to enter the Dream World with their physical bodies.

The group found that the sky in the dream world was also filled with the same haze in Gensekai. Moving through the dream world; they quickly reached the capital where Vespertine and many of the residents resided. Many of the residents were locked into their own homes; and above the palace was a growing storm of dark clouds that exuded a negative aura. Anastasia found herself having to stay outside to defend against nightmare spirits that were starting to form from the clouds. Lola and Tsuyoi went inside and up the castle to reach the roof; where Vespertine was found holding off many nightmare spirits that had conglomerated together. Vespertine explained that recently, nightmares were becoming more common, and sleep many times longer. She was having trouble putting an end to these growing nightmares herself.

Tsuyoi had no hesitation and led his incident resolving group into the dark cloud; which turned out to be what could be described as another realm which was part of the Dream World; the Nightmare Realm. Within the nightmare realm were many spirits that represented phobias and other negative concepts; inflicting any dreams they touched with what they represented. In the center of the nightmare realm, the culprit waited. A dragon who represented nightmares, Archeros. Archeros seemed quite uninterested in the situation, in fact he didn’t seem to realize what his powerful presence had began. He didn’t want to be bothered so he attempted to scare off the trio; but being sternly told off by Vespertine made flustered him. After this; he admitted he was a being who fed on nightmares, and he found himself feeling more hungry than usual, but he didn’t expect to cause such a huge chain reaction. The nightmare spirits were recalled back into the Realm, and the night was finished normally. With that, Vespertine bid Tsuyoi and his group goodbye as they returned to Gensekai.

After making sure all of the sleeping citizens were awaking properly, Tsuyoi would return to his chambers to take a deserved rest of his own, however this would result in terrible news the next morning. He was found by his maid with a sword lodged in his chest.

The Prince had been Murdered. His murderer is currently still unknown.

Modern Era
[Year - A.G 400-Present] The murder of Tsuyoi was met with continent-wide grief, and the culprit has alluded the authorities to this day. Tsuyoi’s funeral was held, and the turnout was absolutely massive. Afterwards; Gensekai was a bit of a loss for where to go next direction.

At this time, a major change happened. Diona, Anastasia, and Vespertine came together and devised a set of rules that would bring better security into Gensekai. The Magic Revisions. Which removed a huge burden of lethality to the usage of magic; and outlawed many of the territorial Yokai from murdering humans to their own whims. The Revisions also balanced out the power of everyone within Gensekai; making the stronger weaker and the weaker stronger to match. With this, a sense of peace had been achieved. Diona was placed as the official stand-in to rule until a proper replacement could be found.

Incident 4 - Faithful Ascent
[Year - A.G 415] One huge change in Gensekai happened around this time, the mass return of Faith. During the summer season of Gensekai, at the peak of the Hourisa Mountains, a beam of light came down. Once the light died down, a shrine had affixed itself at the peaks of the Mountain. This event caused tremors to run through the mountain. No one was injured; but Diona was certainly very annoyed by this happening. Many new citizens to Gensekai began to leave the Mountain Region after the appearance of the Shrine, and what did all of these beings have in common? They were all Faith Gods. Many of these Gods had hailed from the Outside World, because the technology of the humans had led to humans no longer needing to believe in Gods as they did. With these gods slowly running out of sustenance, they took their followers and under the fellowship of the Nativia Family, they burst into Gensekai and caused some minor conflicts with the established population of Gensekai.

Diona didn't want to deal with this, but before she could even make it to the Nativia Shrine at the top of the Mountain; she was stopped by the Miko of the shrine, Ranae Nativia the Wind Priestess. Ranae had convinced the Yokai who lived in the mountains to convert to worship the Shrine. She challenged Diona to a duel at the peak of the mountain; in front of the New Shrine. Diona accepted, and climbed from the bottom of the mountain; battling through the Yokai she ran into. Eventually, she reached the Nativia Shrine, where she and Ranae had a fierce battle, but Diona proved to end up as the victor.

With that over with, the goddess who had brought the rest of her comrades with her to Gensekai. Minerva Nativia; Ranae’s ancestor; a god who had been worshipped in the outside world as one who brought about good fortune showed herself to Diona. Minerva had brought with her the wonders of new human technology; such as smartphones and other similar things.

Diona wasn’t very amused with the entrance, but accepted the gifts. Minerva wanted to instate her own company to distribute controlled amounts of technology to Gensekai, and with the blessing of Diona, she formed Trinity Inc. The Yokai of Gensekai were wary about the technology, but appreciated the new set of gods to worship and give Faith too.

Trinity Inc./Nativia Shrine was based at the peaks of the mountains. Phones and other small devices were sold around Gensekai to help make life just a bit more easier, and a more solid infrastructure was set up for the continent. More shrines were also built all around during this time to worship the returning facets of Faith. This era of relative peace persists to this day, but there is one more incident to go over…

Incident 5 - Silver Reborn Festival
[Year - A.G 450] The last major incident to occur, during the spring season of this year a massive festival was held to celebrate how far Gensekai had come and the current era of peace that has been achieved.

This day of celebration Gensekai-wide was quickly turned into a day of confusion; as the sky and land was starting to be filled with glowing orbs. These were divine spirits, and their origin was traced to the Ethereal Bamboo Forest. Where the gate to the Netherworld lay dormant. Diona and Ranae met up at the capital to discuss a course of action. Before she could plan ahead however, Ranae, being ad hothead as she is, went ahead to run and find out what was happening herself. Diona was less than amused but followed behind; and when arriving in the bamboo forest; they met Lola. Anastasia had gotten fed up with the spirits ruining the smaller festival happening in her Garden. This prompted to investigate. The three girls joined and found the gateway to the Netherworld, which they entered.

It was explained that a temple in the Netherworld had been opened and that coming from it was mass amounts of spiritual energy. The many spirits of people that lived in the world were annoyed as the temple was causing tremors to rumble throughout the realm. The trio of girls went on to investigate to find and travel through the temple; battling the Netherworld residents that were found defending the temple. When they reached the center of the temple; they were met with an amassing of divine spirit orbs that were forming into the shape of a person; before they could intervene, the supposed reincarnation was complete. A beautiful lady introduced herself as the reincarnated soul of Prince Tsuyoi; but she dropped the name she bore in her previous live. She was now to be known as Miyoi, who decided to transition for her own comfort during the reincarnation. Miyoi then proceeded to challenge the three girls to test out her new body; where she she was defeated but put up a good fight. With that finished, Miyoi returned the divine spirits back to rest and the festival continued without a hitch!

With Miyoi returned; she had jurisdiction over Gensekai once more; but she decided she no longer wanted to rule the whole of the world; instead, after the festivals were over that rejoiced her return, she instituted that Gensekai would no longer have a single absolute ruler; letting the residents cause their own trouble if they wanted. Due to the Magic Revisions, society became much more playful and free-willed. Miyoi did instate that leaders would be appointed for most of every biome; leaving Keiki Jungle and Shinkai Lavalands as unowned land. These people were to be called upon whenever a large Incident occurred that threatened stability occurred. They were also given power over resource control. This group was officiated as the Gensekai Council.

With that finished; Miyoi retreated into the Dreamworld to live with Vespertine. Leaving the rebirthed Gensekai to grow on it's own.

Present Day
[Year - A.G 485] And a bit over 30 years later; the world is how it is today. Thriving, beautiful; and filled with life and splendor. Many environments to see, many species to meet! The most interesting event to occur of course is the influx of people from other Universes finding themselves within Gensekai.