The Fourth Age
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<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left">Began eighty years ago, specifically after Colair, Babyl, and Xandria dealt with major apocalyptic events.</li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400">Resulted in two no-entry, militarily observed areas known as the “Dead Man’s Walk” south of Colair and the ‘Everflame Exclusion Zone’ that encompasses all of Everflame Island.</li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400">The Fourth Age was marked by:</li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400">Less reliance on magic</li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400">Improved diplomatic relations between Xandria and Babyl</li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400">Widespread construction of rail lines, especially between Xandria, Babyl, and surrounding lands.</li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400">Widespread use of paper currency</li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400">Horizon announcing the defeat of the 5th Realm’s Titan</li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400">Discovery of a large energy reserve believed to be a portal to a new dungeon, dubbed The New World.</li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400">Satellite launches fail to reach space, but the world being surrounded by fog is confirmed.</li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400">Tensions over rights & ownership of the New World spark the first-ever war involving countries across the world. The war lasted five years and was between two alliances:</li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400">“The Mugen Pact”</li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400">Xandria</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Babyl [Kingdom of the Twin Suns]</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Allied groups in and around Colair’s colonial district of Takkus</li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400">“The Outer Powers” </li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400">Taitale Union</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Colairan Empire</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Revelrie (A late entry, joined when Taitale was losing ground)</li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400">The usage of the weapon of mass destruction known as ‘The Icarus Device’.</li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400">This device was only used once, by the Mugen Pact, resulting in the complete destruction of Revelrie and the death of its angelic leader, Ark.</li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left">Two major events contributed to Yama’s declaration of a Fifth Age (fifteen years ago):</li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left">The Yama Accords, mediated by the first reliably recorded angels, aside from Ark.</li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left">The Vault of Heaven’s Third Gate falls, resulting in a ban on adventuring past the 4th Realm.</li>
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