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Author's note: This is my first real attempt at FanFiction :) I've tried before but never got around to finishing a story. I hope you like this, it's my take on what the War of the Magi that happened 1000 years before the events of Final Fantasy VI was like. I don't know if any stories like this have been written or if this has been attempted before. I hope to make this a really good fic, well enjoy :) and please review when your finished reading, i really like to know what you guys think :D
The War of the Magi
by Shark
The beginning of magic:
Many years before the War of the Magi, many years before the espers existed, and many years before the existence of magic there was a great civilization of humans. The civilization was very technologically advanced. The world was almost perfect. There was no war, poverty, or suffering. Life for the people was made easy by their advanced technology. Everything in the world seemed perfect until the coming of the three goddesses.
Even though the people of the world lived out their lives in happiness, some always felt something was missing. Some great men and woman grew obsessed with finding meaning in their lives and seeking what they were longing for. They soon learned of the gods with great powers that created the world. In their lust for understanding, some brave men and woman, using their advanced technology, opened a gate to the very heavens where the gods dwelled.
As soon as the humans opened the gate to the heavens, the gods seized the opportunity to banish three quarreling goddesses who were wreaking havoc in the heavens down to the world of the humans. The gods promptly sealed the gate so that the banished goddesses would never be able to reenter the heavens again. The goddesses descended upon the world, bringing their powers of magic which spread across and the ideas of war.
The goddesses fought each other in a long bloody three way war using their mighty powers to try and defeat one another. They created mighty weapons such as the Atma Weapons to fight each other. Some brave humans tried to stop the goddesses with their advanced weaponry but the goddesses were too powerful and continued to fight. Any human who got caught within the goddesses battles were transformed into living war machines of pure magical energy and used by the goddesses against one another. These living war machines that were once humans became known as
In a brief moment of realization, the three goddesses realized that they were being laughed down upon by the gods in the heavens. They realized their fighting was useless and that it wasn't going to benefit them in the world. Using their powers for, hopefully, the last time, they gave espers free will and turned themselves into statues of stone. The last command they gave the espers was to let them rest undisturbed for all of eternity...
...many years passed and the great civilization of humans lived peacefully with the magical espers. It was discovered that an esper could be captured and drained of its powers, and then its powers could be infused with both humans and machines. Greed and lust for power grew among some humans. Using the ideas of war that the humans learned from the Goddesses, they hunted down and killed espers for their magic. Soon the espers united against their human oppressors and fought back. For every esper killed, the humans grew in power. The humans and espers were plunged into a battle for power and then into a devastating war for control of the world.
This is the story of The War of the Magi, the devastating war which reduced the world to a scorched wasteland over 1000 years ago, told from the sides of both the humans and the espers...
