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        "totitle": "Ages of Avo",
        "*": "<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-lineno\" id=\"mw-diff-left-l1\">Line 1:</td>\n<td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-lineno\">Line 1:</td></tr>\n<tr><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"\u2212\"></td><td class=\"diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted\"><div><del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">&lt;strong&gt;MediaWiki has been installed</del>.<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">&lt;/strong&gt;</del></div></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">[[Valwyr|Valwyran]] scholars have split [[Avo]]'s overall 4,000 years of recorded history into three overarching ages, signifying great or significant changes in the world as we know it</ins>.</div></td></tr>\n<tr><td class=\"diff-marker\"></td><td class=\"diff-context diff-side-deleted\"><br></td><td class=\"diff-marker\"></td><td class=\"diff-context diff-side-added\"><br></td></tr>\n<tr><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"\u2212\"></td><td class=\"diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted\"><div><del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Consult </del>the [<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">https://www</del>.<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Contents User</del>'<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">s Guide] </del>for <del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">information on using </del>the <del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">wiki software</del>.</div></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">== Pre-history ==</ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Prior to the creation of the [[Storybearers]], most historical information was contained by </ins>the [<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">[Elf|elves]] through their use of oral tradition</ins>. <ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">These stories stretch back about 1,500 years before history began to be recorded and are considered accurate from the standpoint of the elves; since other beings didn't have similar recording practices (and also since other beings don</ins>'<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">t have the mental acumen with regard to using trance to keep memories from fading away over time), the knowledge from these traditions is elf-centric and thus not tremendously helpful </ins>for the <ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">world as a whole</ins>.</div></td></tr>\n<tr><td class=\"diff-marker\"></td><td class=\"diff-context diff-side-deleted\"><br></td><td class=\"diff-marker\"></td><td class=\"diff-context diff-side-added\"><br></td></tr>\n<tr><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"\u2212\"></td><td class=\"diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted\"><div>== <del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Getting started </del>==</div></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div>== <ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">The Bronze Age </ins>== \u00a0</div></td></tr>\n<tr><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"\u2212\"></td><td class=\"diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted\"><div><del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">* </del>[<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">https://www</del>.<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">mediawiki</del>.<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Configuration_settings Configuration settings list</del>]</div></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">=== 1 - 780 VR ===</ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"\u2212\"></td><td class=\"diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted\"><div><del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">* </del>[<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">https:</del>/<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">/www</del>.<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">mediawiki</del>.<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:FAQ MediaWiki FAQ</del>]</div></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">The Bronze Age encapsulates the time from the founding of the Storybearers to the crowning of [[King Ulest]], the Mage King, in [</ins>[<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Valwyria]]. In this ancient time, [[magic]] was known only as an innate aspect given to special types of people (sorcerers, mainly)</ins>. <ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">It is known as the Bronze Age due to the fact that most manufacturing and technological processes were strictly material in nature; that is, magic was incredibly rare and often only used in simple cantrips (which, at the time, were cast as if they were more powerful spells)</ins>. <ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">King Ulest and his disciples at [[Green Tower]] in western [[Anor]] spent their lives investigating and experimenting with this mystical ability available to only certain people, eventually discovering and accessing the [[Spellweave|Weave]</ins>]<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">. Ulest's rise to power in the 750s was bloody and difficult, as his experimentation on sorcerers was ... less than moral, but in the end, he became king of Anor and is widely regarded as the first Wizard of Avo.</ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"\u2212\"></td><td class=\"diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted\"><div><del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">* </del>[<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">https://lists</del>.<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">wikimedia</del>.<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">org/postorius/lists/mediawiki</del>-<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">announce</del>.<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">lists</del>.<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">wikimedia</del>.<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">org/ MediaWiki release mailing list]</del></div></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div>\u00a0</div></td></tr>\n<tr><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"\u2212\"></td><td class=\"diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted\"><div><del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">* [https://www</del>.<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">mediawiki</del>.<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">org/wiki/Special</del>:<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">MyLanguage/Localisation#Translation_resources Localise MediaWiki </del>for <del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">your language</del>]</div></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">== The Age of Magic ==</ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"\u2212\"></td><td class=\"diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted\"><div><del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">* </del>[<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">https://www</del>.<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">mediawiki</del>.<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">org/wiki/Special</del>:<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">MyLanguage/Manual</del>:<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Combating_spam Learn how to combat spam on your wiki</del>]</div></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">=== 781 - 2343 VR ===</ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">After Ulest's coronation, several wizards and sorcerer kings throughout Avo began to use their magical power to wrest control from the barbarous tribes and clans across the world. The 9th century in particular is known as the start of the [</ins>[<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Rule of Mages]]; over 3</ins>/<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">4ths of the world had some type of magic user in a throne. This was ultimately their downfall, however, as knowledge of the Weave began to spread, and spread quickly, and by the 11th century, the number of spellcasters grew considerably, as did the type of spellcaster. Druidic nature magic and divine magic was discovered and a magical \"arms race\" began over the centuries, as magic grew and new spells were discovered or created.</ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div>\u00a0</div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">In the later parts of the Age of Magic, wizards in particular began to study incredibly powerful spellcasting, including so-called \"reality warping\" spells</ins>. <ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Research on these spells often included ethical ambiguity on the part of the researchers</ins>. <ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">By the 23rd century, wizards in [[Iro]</ins>] <ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">had discovered the ''wish'' spell, after reverse engineering the magical incantations by essentially tearing various djinn apart. ''Wish'' is known as the first \"reality warping\" spell, but was the weakest, and these wizards, seeking more and more arcane power, discovered spells that could change time, fundamentally alter the material world, or even banish deities from Avo.</ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div>\u00a0</div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">In 2343 VR, after decades of toying with their fate, three incredibly powerful wizards met at the [[Tower of Druskir]] in Iro to battle over artifacts there. These wizards each cast the ''greater wish'' spell, in an attempt to fundamentally alter the world around them. Not much is known about what happened next, besides the fact that the gods themselves intervened, in an event known as the [</ins>[<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">The Catastrophe|Catastrophe]]. The event was instantaneous, and likely caused by either the gods stopping the wishes from being cast, or reverting the world back to what it was prior to the spells' effects. Whatever the case, the ripple of divine power caused large portions of the population, especially those with arcane abilities, to die instantly, as the [[Spellweave|Weave]] was ripped from their bodies</ins>. <ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Access to the Weave became limited</ins>. <ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Giant floating cities like [[Gharanhall]] came crashing to the ground, and [[Weave-points]], or areas were magic was stronger than normal, were erased from the world.</ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div>\u00a0</div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">== The Post-Catastrophe Age ==</ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">=== 2344 VR </ins>- <ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">4490s VR ===</ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Avo spent centuries healing after the devastation of the Catastrophe</ins>. <ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Magic itself was unavailable for at least a century, forbidden by the gods themselves</ins>. <ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Several parts of the world were highly reliant on magic and struggled to rediscover how to survive, even after magic returned</ins>. <ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Military might began to rise in the early PC years, as the world reverted to Bronze Age ways of operating.</ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div>\u00a0</div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Eventually, the world recovered and the cap on magical power ended up being a positive thing, as it allowed spellcasters to devise spells within the breadth of what power they were given. Meanwhile, the world settled into the nations and landscapes we know of today. The Post-Catastrophe Age is the longest age due to advancements in technology and magic, which allowed both to coexist and create a favorable landscape for developing nations</ins>. <ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Of course there were wars and great evil that had to be vanquished, but nothing matched the sheer destruction of the Catastrophe</ins>.</div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div>\u00a0</div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">NOTE</ins>: <ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Below refers to the Dawn Era, which is the next age of Avo, following the disastrous [[The Divine Wrath|Divine Wrath]]. However, people from the Dawn Era know very little about the previous ages, due to the information being wiped out </ins>for <ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">unknown reasons.</ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div>\u00a0</div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">== The Dawn Era ==</ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">=== 1 - 1013 (current year) ===</ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">The Dawn Era encapsulates the 1,000 or so years since the crowning of [[Empress Sirela Westhall]</ins>] <ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">of [[Kotakor]]. Historical events are backdated to that event from the year 822, which is when the [[World Historical Society]] was founded in [[Ruhstak Shi]] in [[Densha]]. They surmise that roughly 1,000 years occurred between the [</ins>[<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">The Divine Wrath|Wrath]] and Westhall's crowning, but historical events are difficult to pinpoint earlier than that and are thought to be \"lost to time</ins>.<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">\" Similarly, almost all knowledge of the world prior to the Wrath is gone and largely forgotten, with few exceptions like place names and other proper nouns</ins>.</div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">[[Category</ins>:<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Things]]</ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">[[Category</ins>:<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Timeline]</ins>]</div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-side-deleted\"></td><td class=\"diff-marker\" data-marker=\"+\"></td><td class=\"diff-addedline diff-side-added\"><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">__NOINDEX__</ins></div></td></tr>\n"
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