Cambridge Series

The world, and everything of divine spirit, was said to have been made by four Gods. These Gods have been coined the Gods of Myst:

Nael - The Goddess of Elements
Chrodai - The God of Time
Brodin - The God of Disease and Malice
Relina - The Goddess of Restoration

These deities ruled for eons, and in time, decided to use their powers to conceive life. This led to the birth of countless civilizations and creations, as well as their destruction. The Gods grew bored of organisms with no thought process of their own. So, they began experimenting; perhaps they should endure feelings of love. Or experience happiness. This proved taxing, for emotions come naturally in pairs with their opposites, and without the guidance of the Gods, the civilizations were unable to thrive.

Relina, the only God to have not created a world below, proposed an idea; freewill - a characteristic they all dared not bestow upon any creation. Brodin and Chrodai were skeptical, but Nael, being the overseer of the group, was intrigued. It would be a one time affair, allow them to see how another lifeform would function at their level of intellect, and it would also prove the loyalty of the inhabitants of this new world. Persuaded, Brodin and Chrodai agreed, and they all put forth their power to cultivate a world unlike any other.

The first inhabitants of this world were known as PatenKind; beings born with a physical appearance strikingly similar to that of the Gods. With long arms and legs, pointed ears, and gargantuan hands, the sole difference between PatenKind and their creators was their hair color; an ocean deep blue. On Relina's whim, PatenKind also possessed the divine spirit of the Gods, limited to the creation of new life. Thus, PatenKind were born with, and able to learn new, Mystics; Relur (Restoration), Elur (Elements), Chroec (Time), and Infec (Disease); The Gods wrote books containing a vast amount of Mystec spells termed the Mystian Texts which the PatenKind used to learn more Mystec spells.

The PatenKind roamed the land of Cambridge for years before the Gods grew tired of the limited variety in their deviations. Although the PatenKind were able to interact peacefully, and with little conflict, the Gods wanted to increase the number of factors in the world. This led to the creation of Humans; beings that were a derivative of the PatenKind. Their arms and legs were shorter, their hair a vast array of colors outside of blue, and their spirit's lacked the purity of PatenKind.

Humans were divided into three classes of divinity;

Mystites - Able to learn myst, but were not born with it.
Magites - Born with the capability to naturally use a specific type of myst, but unable to learn new ones.
Metities - Unable to learn, neither were born with, Mystecs.
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Myst - Godlike essence that allows a person to cast spells.

Mystics - Based on the four gods of Myst, they are the elements that can be
controlled by someone with Myst.

Relur - Restorative Mystic
Eleur - Elemental Mystic
Chroec - Time Controlling Mystic
Infec - Disease/Infectious Mystic

Mystec - The ability to use a specific type of Mystic.
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There are four Provinces in Cambridge:

Genis: Living province of Patenkind. (Though there are some who live elsewhere, a minute few stray very far from the homeland).

Muave: Living province primarily of Metites, though Magites and Mystite are known to live there.

Sovereign: Living province of primarily Mystites, though Magites and Metites are known to live there.

Iria: Living province that is a large collection of all the human races.
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Cambridge is marked primarily by two major events:

Age of Farce:
Centuries after the creation of Humans and their assimilation into the world that was primarily the PatenKind, little government had been created, and many people wandered aimlessly, taking refuge in fertile lands. With an accumulation of merely small villages scattered throughout Cambridge, many of those less fortunate or able to till the land and live fruitfully, began raiding villages, stealing livestock, food, weapons, and whatever else they could get their hands on. It was at this time, when the robberies, soon turned into killings, began to escalate beyond belief, that villages began to fight in protest.

Large villages in the Sovereign region banded together, thus forming small militia to thwart, and put a permanent end to the seemingly endless raids. After much success, due to the newly formed armry in Sovereign, the other three provinces followed suit. Villages used the strength of their allies to put an end to the killings and thefts, and in due time, the union of villages gave way to the large cities/kindgoms/towns that are found throughout each Province in Cambridge.


War of Divinity
As right as the Gods were, the increase of variety and difference between the races grew; positively as well as negatively. As the spiritual divinity of each race matured, they took pride in their ability, and shunned those who could not, or did not, relate to the customs that dominated majority of those who could control one, if not more, of the four Mystics.

The focus of negativity soon focused on two of the five cultures:

Metites, and their inability to use Myst. They were soon seen as inferior.

Patenkind, and their odd appearances, speech, mannerisms, and customs. They were the only inhabitants of Cambridge that did not resemble, nor live similarly, to everyone else. Or so it was percieved.

The Patenkind, though avid warriors and fighters, lean towards acts of peace, avoiding conflict. Such was the reason as to why they were shepherded across Cambridge from Iria, the Province where they resided since the beginning of time, to Genis, a province that is nearly half its size.

The Metites, though not as ostracized as Patenkind, are still mocked and made fun of based on their lack, or as others say, non-existant, spiritual divinity. Many of them, wishing to escape the slanders, moved into the Muave region; a patch of forestry that, until their transition, separated the Patenkind from the rest of humanity.

This breach in forestry, which uprooted the only privacy and solace they had left, angered the Patenkind. And the Metites, seeing that the only race "lower than them" were on their doorstep, saw it a fit opportunity to take out their frustrations and feelings of inferiority out on them.

Before long, a war broke out between the two, encompassing all, if not most, of Muave and Genis, and even spreading its wings into the lower regions of Sovereign. (Though none of the War made its way past the Desert of Cain)

This war raged on for five years, leaving a bridge burned between Patenkind and not only Metites, but any fraction of Human living on Cambridge's soil.