In Character history

Below is a bulleted list of the major events that have taken place in character that have shaped the world around us. You can also find a detailed explanation of the events after Evo's Dawn and the Beta SL of the board.

General Timeline
•2007 •2008
 * •Evo’s dawn sparked the world with super powered children.
 * •The most extreme Evo case was a child creating a class five hurricane in Alaska
 * •Magic reborn at the same time as Evo’s dawn.
 * •Many countries quarantined themselves, USA issued martial law.
 * •England revives, Red Claw mages to aid in dealing with Evo’s
 * •Red Claw takes military might of its own and sends aid to countries who will take it notably Japan and the Middle East.
 * •Joint Evo project between Red Claw and Japan creates Azura project.
 * •Red Claw leadership demands magic school to be in place, Avalon born
 * •Dual campuses Azura and Avalon founded, opens its doors to the new generation on the world.
 * •China kidnaps a group of Evos to expose in a zoo facility, leading to a meeting in Fukuoka between the major nations’ diplomats to discuss the events and solutions to them.
 * •Japan as well as several countries relax their laws about gun control, something highly unexpected considering the long history of stringent control in the country of the rising sun.

The Details
Just over one year ago, an event happened that shook the world. Our lives, our children's lives, and the livelihood of the world itself have been so twisted by the event that the remainder of the United Nations formed a new calender era in order to forever remind us of the 'Brave New World' that we are faced with today. For whatever reason, January 1st of the prior year presented a terror that has toppled nations and left possibly over a million dead. We called it Evos Dawn, formally 1/01/00 A.D.E (After the Dawn of the Evotelluric). On this day, approximately three million individuals, mostly children, were granted incredible and outright scary abilities that the human race had not thought possible. They could control the elements, bend others to their wills, cause the entire internet to suddenly disappear, and so much more. In the strictest sense of the word, they evolved from humanity. They did these things not because they were being controlled, not because they were evil, but simply because children do not understand the responsibility of handling power. A child, for the most part, will listen to their elders only to the extent that listening gets them what they want and keeps their fears away. In a twisted way, children are simply built with an instinct for survival and prosperity. Give them incredible power, and they will use it to obtain what they want and need.

The first recorded example was that of a hurricane that struck Alaska, specifically the Juno area. Weather satellites around the world were recalibrated time and time again, but a class 5 hurricane took fifteen minutes to fully form and strike an area where it was technically impossible to happen. Then the emergency signals started coming in, the cell lines all jammed. Military and Police forces across every country were being activated, save for those that had no military force to begin with. Occupying forces were immediately withdrawn in efforts of relocating to the home front as fast as possible, but then the real problem arose: They had no clue what they were fighting.

The human mind is an interesting thing in the fact that disbelieve causes it to believe in miracles. Most of the world's citizens no longer believed in magic, but these disasters created by some sort of genetic altering power were instead the divine judgment of God or Gods in some cases. In the meantime, division fell in strongly amongst every single individual, for the rule of thumb in most countries was that those capable of these 'divine' abilities were to be executed on sight. I say again, they were mostly children. The Alaskan Hurricane, that entire event was brought on by a step father beating his six year old son (it took almost a year of investigation to find this out). And when that man ended the fight by killing the child, the American government cleared him of all wrong doing. Since the United States is a world leader, most countries followed suit with this brutal style.

There were some glimmers of hope in those first few dark days. Israel imposed a self quarantine, asking for anyone who might think they were capable of these 'miracles' to turn themselves in for examination. The Israeli protocol was quickly duplicated where it could be, but in the United States things quickly turned ugly. Roughly three quarters of the soldiers sent in across the country refused their orders to exterminate those with power, unless it became absolutely necessary. While this revolt would have worked out, the Order of Red Claw suspects that further events were falsified in order to seal a sort of hate against these mutated individuals.

England had a different response entirely. As a matter of desperation, Parliament turned to its almost forgotten order of mages in order to match element for element, and control if not arrest these newly evolved humans if possible. While our order had been all but forgotten, we had still been growing in numbers all throughout the twentieth century, enough to the point that London became the first city declared safe, and the rest of England followed within a week.

That done, we turned our eyes toward the areas that America had abandoned. Specifically the Middle East, but also Japan. Primary focus was placed on Japan out of fear of the country falling to China, but the hand of the magi was offered freely to any country that would accept our conditions. The far east became specifically interesting due to the Prime Minister's own son being an Evo. Rather than simply preform experiments or quarantine the mutated humans, Japan sought to create a non violent environment where they could continue to still be children. We thus began drafting the Azurian Project shortly thereafter.

In the meantime, things have gotten both better and worse across the world. After a few weeks, genealogists thought that they had isolated the specific rearranged parts within a mutant's DNA, and they were granted the title Evotelluric (evolved from the earth) as a sort of non demonized title to encourage equal treatment when possible. In efforts of completely proving that the Evotelluric can and should co-exist on this world with us, the Japanese Azurian Project has been completed. The knights of Red Claw and England's military have become the new guardians of Japan. While I would have preferred the Azura Evotelluric Academy to accept Evos alone, the Third Chair Knight on the order of Red Claw pointed out that segregation would undermine our entire goals. (To which after earning my approval, the man declared his own institute within the school as if to spite me.) Thus, the Avalon Magic and Technology Institute has been opened within the confines of the campus, forming a dual campus with common grounds.

We are lucky in the fact that the Japanese government funded most of the project. To this end, they have provided us with an island off the coast of Kyushu that holds several regional benefits in addition to isolating some of the Evotelluric population from the mainland until adulthood. We are offering this full schooling regiment completely free of charge toward anyone seeking either the knowledge of magic or and Evo seeking control and growth at this point. All other paths are also welcomed to our pearl of blue hope, in effort to create a future generation that will not blindly hate nor have anything more than perhaps a friendly rivalry from a grade school. If our project is successful, we can begin forcing the UN to recognize the rights of Evotellurics across the globe, and perhaps establish alternate campuses across the world. As stated prior, both the Warden of Azura and the Headmaster of Avalon will accept any student who can make it to our campus. We hope that you, the generation that shall be our future, will join us in this venture.

Trinis Callum Alastair II, Order of Red Claw 1st Chair.

The Beta SL
During a school field trip for the first day of the dual campuses, the school-run ferry was driven out to sea. The students were gassed and transferred to a retrieval ship bound for China while the remains of the ferry washed up on Fukuoka shores in pieces, causing authorities to believe that the students had been killed in an accident at sea. Coast Guard units were deployed to find any trace of the missing students, but within a 48 hour window, Headmaster of the Avalon campus, Wessix, called off the investigation, citing that he received a transmission from the professor that had attended the students’ field trip from Beijing, China. Instead, units were deployed from the British Air Force stationed on the island.

When the recovery team arrived in Beijing, the containment facility that held the students, a large zoo known as Shingashong, had erupted in chaos. The animals had escaped their enclosures and were attacking the guests while the students were making their way to the main of the zoo. One student, identified as Fei Korlock, managed to sniper the director of the zoo, killing him in the subsequent crash of his personal helicopter. Bodies of the director and his pilot were recovered at the crash site with bullet wounds intact. Another student, Sidithus Conty, managed to retrieve security images from the main base of the facility, transmitting them to local authorities and copying back up images. The transmissions have been erased, but the student’s backup files have been released outside the country, spurring heated debate from nation to nation. According to the student testimonies and the images on file, the students were abducted from their trip and attempted escape from the zoo. China is still in heated disagreement, citing the bullet wounds in the director’s recovered skull and damage to the rotors of the helicopter.

The debate has called for a meeting in Fukuoka between the major nations’ diplomats with new evidence coming forward between the ferry’s disappearance and the investigations held against the Professor in attendance of the students at the time of the incident.

Links: The Ferry The EvoZoo The Rescue Squad (Second Flight)