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After the Khanterran Empire won the 10-Year War (also known now as the Great War of the Old Worlds) in 1668 (Old World Calendar), great efforts were undertaken in order to terraform the planet into two massive continents, in order to ease the extraction of resources as well as improving habitability following the nuclear holocaust left by the vast American arsenal.

Utilizing Ravernal time-space spells as well as their own magic, the Khanterran Empire teleported the land once belonged to the Ravernal Empire (as well as the Annonrial since they rejoined their master) to another world entirely as they are the most irradiated continents on the planet. Several other lands were also removed, with the justification that they are not worth the effort of saving.

After reestablishing contact with their interstellar empire, the Khanterran was able to bring in far more advanced terraforming technology and set the continents adrift with minimal disturbances. This process continued until two super continents were created, whom their inhabitants now called the Western and Eastern continent.

The Khanterran would rule the planet for over 1000 years in what historians now referred to as the Dark Age until the day their empire collapsed in an interstellar civil war. As an isolated colony on the outermost rim of their empire, Sorval was never touched by the Khanterran Civil War raging across the stars, but it also meant that the local Khanterran garrison could not maintain their grip on power for long as the home systems have largely forgotten about them.

Khanterran rule on Sorval would end at the end of the Dark Age after being toppled by a [REDACTED BY HER MAJESTY’S IMPERIAL MINISTRY OF DEFENSE] global revolt (known as the Revolt of the World), with the most popular faction known as the Celestian establishing their own nation in the Western Continent, and resetting the calendar to Year 0 to signify a new Age.

As Khanterrans cannot crossbreed with the local species, and the cooperative demonkind species were too few in number, they decided to create Half-Demons from human, demons and Khanterran genetics in order to populate the planet with a loyal species, to help fulfill the manpower requirements for garrisoning and staffing administrative positions.

Half-Demons are generally seen by wider society as traitors who helped oppressed the Common Races (human, elves, thirens or demihumans) for the Khanterran. Due to this, they are subjected to a policy of internment camps in the Western Continent by the Holy Empire of Celestia in the modern day, with threats of deportation to the Eastern Continent as slaves to backward kingdoms.

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The two continents represent massive divisions in technologies and societies. The Western Continent—where the last functional Khanterran-built megastructure, the Celestara Space Elevator (located in the calm inland sea of the Holy Empire of Celestia) now stood.

Many records of advanced technologies were destroyed by the Khanteran Empire’s colonial government as soon as they knew the Celestians would won, leading to a protracted period of technological regression in the centuries that followed amongst many other groups which has established themselves as the leftover high technologies from the Khanterran slowly wore out or destroyed in subsequent conflicts post-Dark Age.

Despite this, the Holy Empire of Celestia was able to reverse-engineered and manufactured many less-complicated Khanterran magitech, allowing the Holy Empire to dominate in the Western Continent despite the global trend of technological regression.

After the Great War to End All Wars (also known as the Hundred Year War) in Year 1020, the technological regression trend mostly ended and reversed until the modern day, where many smaller nations were able to develop from steam technologies to early analog computers.

Most of these advances were only seen in the Western Continent, however. The Eastern Continent was largely forgotten as Holy Celestia did not have the resources then to colonize it and the continent did not have any strategic values nor enemies during the Great War.

Due to this, the mainland Eastern Continent eventually regressed, now barely above the Middle Ages of Earth.

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The Great Sea, set between the two continents, posed a near-impassable challenge for anything but the most advanced Celestian Heavenly Ships of the cruise liner type. Constant magnetic storms, and threats of massive sea monsters threatens any conventional ships which attempted to pass. This makes the Holy Empire of Celestia the only nation to be able to cruise between the two continents consistently, with the average travel time taking 10 days per one-way trip on a Celestian Heavenly cruise liner.

After the Great War concluded and the Western Continent entered an era of great peace, the Holy Empire of Celestia finally sailed off to the Western Continent to establish relations.

As the people of the mainland Eastern Continent are considered backward kingdoms and has crossbreed with Half-Demons in large numbers, the Holy Empire of Celestia eventually reached an agreement to deport Half-Demon (and those who shared lineage with Half-Demons but are not Half-Demons themselves, known derogatorily as the Tainted) to these kingdoms as slaves in exchange for resources.

However, several nations in the Eastern continents were favored by the Holy Empire of Celestia due to their strategic values, such as the Kingdom of Hawaii and the Greater Confederation of Alaska. These nations do not contain Half-Demons (and is not known to exist by the mainland Eastern Continent states), so Celestia have influenced them to become protectorates. These nations provide supplies for advanced Celestian Heavenly Ships in exchanged for security, tourism and magitech.

In year 1427, the United Federation of Elysia was transferred next to the Eastern Continent. In desperation for resources, the trade-dependent nation engaged in a series of conflicts in the Eastern Continent and managed to persuade the backward kingdoms to reform and become part of the United Federation.

All happened before the distant Holy Empire of Celestia managed to react/intervene as they have maintained a policy of limited isolation from the mainland Eastern Continent, only visiting every 5 years during the quinquennial world tour to conduct trade, diplomacy and deportation of criminals as well as Half-Demons into the Eastern Continent as slaves.

However, slavery was officially abolished in the Eastern Continent during the early 13th century, and the crackdowns have destroyed the slave market almost entirely by Year 1427. Despite this, treaties were renegotiated by the kingdoms of the Eastern Continent to continue accepting exiled Half-Demons into their countries in exchange for basic Celestian magical technologies.

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The Western Continent is home to several nations outside the Holy Empire of Celestia, including the Republic of Florence, the Kortalian Commonwealth and the Union of Costa Anguilla.

The Florence Republic is Holy Celestia’s primary rival in the Western Continent, and the only power outside the Holy Empire to possess weapons of mass destruction in the form of nuclear weapons rather than Core Magic. The Republic is also the only power outside Holy Celestia to possess magical Heavenly Ship technologies, but are far less advanced in comparison to Holy Celestia’s.

Despite the rivalry, both nations have a mutual respect for each other’s power and standing. However, most people considers the Holy Empire of Celestia the only true superpower in the world with the Florence Republic far behind in second place.

The Kortalian Commonwealth is an archipelago nation, highly dependent on trade and has good relations to both Holy Celestia and the Florence Republic. They are primarily a traditional naval power, but are focused on rapid island defense from sea monster incursions and securing trade routes. Due to their position as a neutral power, the Commonwealth could import both Celestian military equipment and acquiring Florentine commercial nuclear reactors for their power stations.

The Union of Costa Anguilla is the least developed country in the Western Continent, and influences over the Union is a struggle between Celestia and Florence Republic. It struggles with internal unity, and lost control over its smaller islands outside the larger islands to militant groups, drug cartels and insurgency.

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