The Runaways
Prologue- The Magic of the Two Kingdoms
Magic. A strange concept, is it not? Well, not if you break it down. Magic, in simple terms, is just very advanced science. Magic existed before science. In fact, you could say that magic was the first documented science. And mages, mages were the first scientists. Magic has many categories and subtypes, but there are only two main types of magic-monster magic, and human magic.
Although both humans and monsters are born with magic, monster magic is much more powerful than human magic. It can do things that human magic cannot. It is stronger, takes more rapid effect, and has abilities that humans can only fathom. In fact, the monsters possess rarest, most powerful types of magic. This magic is so rare that only one single race of monster are gifted with it: the skeletons. Only skeletons have the power to heal.
But having a power so rare leads to extreme danger. The healing power has long since been sought after by the mages. Many skeletons used to walk the earth, but the mages were so full of greed that they stopped at nothing to try and get their hands on the healing magic. They hunted, killed, captured, and experimented on them, desperate to try and uncover the secret, desperate to uncover the formula and recreate the healing magic all on their own. A war was waged. The skeletons, aided minimally by the other monsters, tried to fight for their kind. But the result was a tragic loss and failure. The humans had strength in numbers, and although the monsters had stronger magic, their souls were much weaker than human souls, and they could be killed very easily. The monsters surrendered, and it resulted of the significant loss of every race, and the wipeout of nearly all the skeletons in existence. After the surrender, the humans and monsters, who had once lived in a harmonious coexistence, split their kingdom into two: Ebbott, the Monster Kingdom, and Aridan, the Human Kingdom, And the few remaining skeletons scattered, and vanished, never to be heard from again.
Our story begins during the last few weeks of the conflict that would divide the kingdoms forever.