History

Ethereal Era
[Before Recorded History] All it took was one bang. A countless number of eons ago; the universe came into existence. It wasn’t a god that created the world that is lived in today, it was a random event. And the seed of the universe, The Ethereal was created. The Ethereal was a cloudy world without any material objects within it, and when the Ethereal was created; so was a set of gods. The Primordials. The Primordials are formless beings who's existence cannot be truly comprehended by anything below them. This kind of formless existence went on for some time. A time that could be described as countless, but within the Ethereal everything could be described as bottomless. Everything could be described as Infinite. The Primordial beings began to think, began to manipulate and create. Unknown to them, they had created a universe below their realm. Their essences coming together to create a new world and new beings. The universe as we know it. This was the end of the timeless Ethereal.

Creation Story
[B.G (Before Gensekai) Earth was one of the first planets to be created within this new universe, it's landscapes formed and the ocean was once made with nothing but lava. After some time, the rains started the lava that formed the land sunk into the center to provide its heat. The rest of the stars and planets aligned, and the first storm raged on. It's clouds covered the whole planet and left it dark for a profound amount of time. It stopped, and the oceans filled with the chasms that had been left behind from the magma. The world was now rock and blank.

The essence of the Primordials, magic, seeped into this universe. Mostly centralized towards Earth. From this came the birth of Yokai. The first beings to ever walk the land; formed from the essence of Magic. Most of the magic passed through the moon; making it the Celestial body that birthed Yokai. Though; something else also occurred. While the Primordial's essence formed yokai, the rain that had plagued Earth was formed from the clouds in the Ethereal. This rain held the very heart of life. This was how the plants, animals, and humans were formed. From the rain of the Ethereal; which was heated by the rays of the sun. This was how the two main beings of the world were created.

The humans walked with their physical bodies and primitive minds; while the yokai were mostly feral compared to today. The flesh of humans tempted them, and such began the basic predator and prey relationships.

Human Expansion + Start of Faith
[B.G (Before Gensekai) For some centuries; the intelligence of humans was akin to that of an animal, and the yokai were territorial beast creatures. Over time, an effect was starting to occur. Humans grew more intelligent and were able to manipulate the world in such ways that were once impossible. Some Yokai gained humanoid bodies and gained a wider emotional and thought range. This allowed them to connect more deeply with the other species of being and the humans even started worshipping some of these Yokai; or created beings to worship. Faith had been created, and the first Gods ascended to a plane between the Ethereal and Earth. Elysium Isle, known as Heaven. By this time, humans had expanded in population and living areas. Moving across the continents and forming their beginnings of culture based on deities and other factors. Though, at this point; both monstrous and humanoid yokai continued to prey on them. This went on for quite for only a short period though.

Assimilation of Magic
[B.G (Before Gensekai) Freya Fernava. One of the first Faith Gods; and one who decided to stay upon earth. She was a Hakutaku; a Yokai species who held great knowledge of every facet of the supernatural. She had always been one to advocate for humans and spent some centuries transcribing her knowledge down into volumes of books. The name of these transcribes have long been erased and forgotten, but some original pages have been preserved. She gifted these books down across all of humanity, and finally, the humans were able to truly fight back against the other species. By this time, many of the more monstrous Yokai had shifted into humanoid shapes.

With this first advancement; the Yokai relented and returned into their worlds of nature, leaving the humans to grow. Coincidentally, many Yokai had also begun to worship the Pantheon of Faith Gods. Though; some continued to hide within humanity and continue to feast. Now disconnected, Freya left Earth and returned to live in the Elysium Isle. By this time, a huge Pantheon of Faith Gods had been formed, living on Earth, Elysium Isle, or even in the forming realms of Hell. Faith had become robust and multi-faceted, some more evil than others. Overall; this era was a period of peace.

Before a storm.

Luna-Sola War
[B.G (Before Gensekai) Some centuries had since passed since the world of humanity received magic. Many subscribed to these teachings and some even turned into Yokai themselves by losing their humanity and becoming Magicants. Humanity had progressed to building cities and creating new forms of energy...and slowly grew warier and warier of magic. Witch-hunts and the shunning of Magicants had begun, forcing them into remote places and into places where Yokai lived, where many were devoured by the more feral Yokai. Even some Faith Gods had started to lose some of their faith, a few even fading as the advent of technology had begun. This was raising tensions.

During the period before the war, the once territorial Yokai had shifted into some form of society, though much behind in terms of true organization. Many of the most powerful Yokai had been appointed as loose leaders. These were the Yokai Sages, some even being Faith Gods. The Sages felt that the world was starting to become corrupted and weak from technology. The human influence was spreading far beyond the agreed boundaries. Peacefully, the Sages went to discuss.

This did not go well, and the Humans waged a collective war on the world they had claimed. The following century was a battle of attrition between the two species. One I need not go into too deeply; as the amount of atrocities and magical disasters that occurred is too much. Some of which will be touched upon later. For a century; this war went on. From this war; where both sides faced massive casualties. The realms of Hell received so many people who had too much bad karma for reincarnation, overpopulation continues to persist. This was also when Elysium Isle's once free openness to those with virtue became closed off, and the leaders of the Isle became authoritarian. The organization of Hell and other realms changed because of this devastating war. A century.

At the end of this century; drastic measures were taken. Much to the protest of many Faith Gods who were receiving huge amounts of Faith and Shrineship, the Sages wanted to end things once and for all. Using their different forms of pure magic; they took parts and pieces of the Earth that still held magical influence and consolidated them together. This was Gensekai, and most of the Yokai of the world was moved. Though some continued to hide within the cracks of humanity.

Then came the barrier, which was a magical wall that pocketed Gensekai away into its own world invisible to Earth. A barrier that only allows the supernatural to pass into, and keeps much of its contents inside. Many Sages died during the war and by using all of their energy to create the barrier. Those who survived entered a form of hibernation and faded. The humans took over the rest of the world, ending the War.

Though, what is now regarded as the Outside World; where the humans now control in full; still has some gaps that lead into Gensekai; still has some subtle Yokai who live and pass into Gensekai, still has supernatural and unexplained events. But this is where the branch of our stories pass. The Outside World is a world of pollution; modernization; and pure technology, where the humans left who attempt magic or have magical affinity may be persecuted and locked up/killed.

Another aspect of Gensekai's creation is that many of the Faith Gods left both the Outside World and Gensekai as a result of their sources of faith being split. Though, a number has returned in one of the recent Incidents that will be explained in the next chapter of History.

Now, Gensekai begins.

[ History 2 ]