[01/25/2009 15:21:19 -5] <~CyberBotX> Oh yeah, I did some thinking last night as I was going to bed, Thndr, about the while 0NE thing. I still want to go with the idea that for the last 1000 years before 0NE, magic was on a decline, and maybe it was because of Phoenix deciding that the number of mages needed to be dropped, but as that was happening, magic use fell more than she expected, and she couldn't bring it's usage back up. [01/25/2009 15:21:51 -5] <%Kia_Purity> so at that point, Caila is probably the only one who can use magic entirely [01/25/2009 15:22:01 -5] <~CyberBotX> Well no, there are probably others. [01/25/2009 15:22:11 -5] <%Kia_Purity> I mean, all of the magic [01/25/2009 15:22:35 -5] <~CyberBotX> Ah. Yeah, probably. Most mages aren't even able to learn multiple types of magic, with a few rare exceptions. [01/25/2009 15:24:48 -5] <~CyberBotX> Anyways, so Thndr and I figured that, just like Earth, the land of Iwote is probably resting on plates and there are occasional earthquakes, although much less often than the ones that occur on Earth. [01/25/2009 15:25:33 -5] <~CyberBotX> So we said we needed some event to occur to do two things: 1) Wipe out a majority of the written knowledge of the previous era, and 2) Have a reason for the New Era suffix to be used instead of After Light. [01/25/2009 15:27:36 -5] <~CyberBotX> This is a revision of what I told Thndr last night since I was thinking about it as I was going to bed: Over those last 1000 years, magic usage was dropping, and finally in 5393AL (the final year AL was used, as 5394AL is really 0NE), magic caused an instability in Iwote. [01/25/2009 15:28:46 -5] <~CyberBotX> For one week at the end of the year, massive earthquakes and volcanic activity and flooding occured across all of Iwote, changing the shape of the continents and destroying so much that very little knowledge of the time before 0NE would be left in the aftermath. And so when it was all over, it was deemed that the world had entered a new era, and thus the use of NE instead of AL. [01/25/2009 15:30:00 -5] <~CyberBotX> And maybe sometime during the 1000 year magic decline, the Court appeared in it's little pocket timeline and started to slowly introduce it's own brand of magic, which would allow them to have such a strong hold by 2008NE. [01/25/2009 15:30:54 -5] <~CyberBotX> I also figure now that Sakura probably managed to find some long-lost information on Cosmic Magic sometime around 1000NE (when she originally lived within the Judge Crim timeline).