Hybrid Age: The Mana Fracture
Chapter 1: The Awakening of the World
"On certain nights, even the stars hold their breath. On one such night, the world changed forever."
📍 Location: The World of Eldoria – The Three Supercontinents
Long ago, the skies of Eldoria were filled with myths. Three supercontinents – the Light of the West, the Elements of the East, and the Darkness of the South – each lived in balance through their beliefs and wars. This balance was rooted in a legend from ancient times: the myth of Mana.
Mana… was just a scary bedtime story told by old women. It was spoken to lull children to sleep, mentioned to instill bravery in young warriors. Mana was neither holy nor demonic. It was undefined. To humanity, it was merely a myth, a ghost of the imagination.
Until that night.
🌌 The Night the Sky Tore
It was a starless night. Silence coursed through the veins of Eldoria. No birds chirped, no winds blew. The skies above the three continents darkened all at once.
Then, the sky tore open.
As if an invisible claw from another realm ripped the heavens like cloth. The rift was silent but deep. Something unseen yet felt began to seep through. It wasn't cold, nor was it warm. It simply… existed.
Mana.
At first, the air shifted. Breathing became difficult. Birds screamed as they burst from their nests. Forests howled, and mountains began to tremble from within.
And then the ground cracked.
🌍 The Cracking of the Earth
When Eldoria's surface came into contact with Mana, not just nature but reality itself bent. The land bridges between the continents trembled, stretched—and snapped. Overnight, the vast roads of earth between the continents shattered. In their place appeared massive, unfathomable oceans.
Simultaneously, the world began to expand. Eldoria ceased to be merely a planet—it became a realm. Maps became obsolete. Old cities shifted with new continents. An unseen force grew the planet hundreds of times larger. Mountains became hills, oceans became lakes. Eldoria had outgrown itself.
It wasn't just a physical split—it was spiritual. Everything Mana touched… changed. The mountain peaks turned green. Forests began to whisper. Rivers reversed their flow. Some stones glowed at night.
Animals grew strange. Wolves with glowing eyes, birds that hovered mid-air, fish that turned with sound—these were no longer fables. Some humans, seeing these beasts, felt a resonance within: "Was this always inside me?"
🧬 Humans and Mana
When Mana touched humans, something awoke. For most, it caused dizziness, brief memory lapses, or dreams. But a few were different.
In these rare individuals, Mana echoed. Their souls answered. Thus, the first Mana resonances hummed inside human bodies. Not yet a power, but a presence, a consciousness. Mana was watching them.
Those first touched either went mad or fell into deep silence. None remained the same. Some stopped speaking. Others stopped dreaming. But they all whispered the same word:
"It has come."
🌊 Mana's Effect on the Seas
The seas reacted to Mana far more violently than the land. Deep within the oceans, ancient races stirred. Beings humanity had long forgotten opened their eyes.
Underwater temples began to glow. Coral palaces shivered. Nearshore waters turned blood red. The taste of salt became sharp, metallic.
Many sailors swore that night that the sea had spoken. Not in waves, but in words. With Mana, the ocean had found a voice.
🪐 The World Was No Longer the Same
By dawn, the sky was clear. The sun rose, birds sang again. But the world was no longer recognizable.
The continents were now separated by vast oceans. The seas acted like they had a will. Some humans had begun to resonate with Mana. Animals had evolved. Plants could not speak, but they could listen. The world had grown hundreds of times larger.
And most importantly, legends were no longer just stories.
The people of Eldoria no longer lived in the world they once knew. A new era had begun.
The Hybrid Age.
"The world has grown. Grown so vast that our old selves no longer fit within it. New identities must emerge—or Mana will forget us… or devour us."