Post by ♛Emyr on Oct 1, 2011 10:36:56 GMT -5
THE IMPENDING FLOOD
watch the raging seas
Magic is almost the exact same as it's always been, and there have been few big advancements in the past few hundred years. Everything in the magical world is 'set', save the occasional advancement. A hundred and fifty years after the fall of the dark lord Voldemort, owls still deliver the mail, the same spells are still taught, and wizards still live in the same places. Hogsmaede is slightly more populous then it was a hundred years before, and Hogwarts itself has changed a bit. Hogwarts now starts later, with students receiving prep school from the time they are eleven to teach them the basics of magic. This is easier for the muggle born wizards, to let them stay closer to home rather then whisking them away, and is one of the few changes in the school's thousand years of operation. Students now attend class until they are twenty-one, and receive proper job training before they're dumped into the world unprepared.
The wizarding world, however, is falling behind. Technology within the muggle realm is advancing at a breakneck pace, with wireless internet covering every inch of Britian. Computers are small and commonplace, operated by touch screens. Knowledge is widespread, and the advancements are rapid. Muggle-born students have been bringing technology to Hogwarts - tiny laptops and cell phones, and the clash is starting to heat up, despite how slow Hogwarts is to change. Pure-bloods, long the favoured child of the magical community are now discovering that there are things that they simply cannot have. Muggle-borns are texting across the school, are getting their books digitally, and are advancing faster then their pure-blooded counterparts. Magic, once superior to technology, began to fall behind in every way. Wizard wars were fought with men and wands - muggle wars were fought from miles away, with missiles and intelligence.
So the ministry, long ruled by pure-bloods, decided to react. The key was intelligence. Magic itself was not intelligent, required the will of it's owner and, more often then not, line of sight. Technology could be remotely controlled, or taught to think for itself. Fifty years past, the ministry of magic began to dredge through old magic to find the solution - and find it they did. The art of demon summoning was the key to evening the balance, and became a mandatory part of Hogwarts schooling. Demons were beings made from magic, imbued with intelligence by their creators and bound to follow their creators orders. They were a reflection of the wizard who made them, but still intelligent enough to follow orders - to go and cause havoc, to follow people home, to hunt down enemies of the ministry. An Arabian wizard summoning a fire demon will see a jinni, while a Mongolian might summon up an Odqan.
Demon summoning evened the sides, but it did not win the war. Three sides exist at the moment, with many people in between. One side is the ministry, those who value the purity of the blood and wizarding traditions. One side is the rebellion, those who believe that all wizards are equal, their traditions corrupt - but still wish to remain hidden from muggles. The third side is new, appearing only recently within Wizarding Britain, and remains mostly underground. The third side, led by a woman calling herself the 'Dark Lady', believes that both sides are wrong - that muggles have earned the right to be equals with wizard kind, and that only a fusion of magic and technology will be able to reign supreme.
Each side is recruiting, building up their numbers - and a conflict is on the horizon.
