Craedorian Civil War
Farmers would awake to find their crops turned to ash.
Entire farms, destroyed.
Producers left with barely enough food for themselves, let alone other people. They would be forced to put the needs of themselves as individuals and families above the collective needs of their communities— who’d entrusted them to provide.
A once social community, flipped completely. Doors shut, locked, and bolted on people who were once neighbors, friends.
Communities would be left without food.
Thousands would starve.
Who would do such a thing? for what reason? Sabotaging their own community.
It was easy for the 967 to lay the blame on magic. “What else could cause such a controlled burn over night? The crops burned, but the houses untouched.”
Sides are taken. Debates occur. A community once united, divided. Fear dominates.
The 967 facilitates the ban and limitation of magic to certain communities in Craedor. Special Communes and Covens continue to practice freely.
Despite mystic communes growing a year’s harvest in as little as a few days, the 967 championed with technological innovations. The people preferred the 967 crops and distrusted mystic produce.
Mystic communities would migrate south while the 967 retained the north, and its means of production, ultimately leading to the collapse of the Craedorian Empire and the birth of Ardor.
Many sorcerers are able to flee to the forest while those unable to escape have their memories wiped.
A semipermeable forcefield prevents the entrance of magic and the knowledge magic.