The trek to the center of the tundra was a lot quicker without the storm raging overhead. This time, a group consisting of most of the desert-dwelling tribe from which the magic user came from. When they reached the center, the ill-fated magic user raised his hands to the sky once again and without delay, the snowstorm resumed, leaving the tribe alone in the eye of the storm. They were instructed by their leader to sit down and embrace the icy depths of the cold that whipped around them.
After a few intense minutes, a faint glow appeared inside the bubble, as the instructions given to the tribe began to take effect.
"Let the land become one with your body, feel the cold enter your arms and legs. The magic is inherent to the tundra, it wishes to teach you how to use it." The words echoed through the eye of the storm, as a young girl, no older than 15, shot her arm upwards and a small spark of ice flew from her fingertips. The look on her face was one of amazement, pure awe and possibility. Soon afterwards her parents were able to harness the magic, and one by one the awestruck tribespeople started to use magic to their own will, laughing, for they had no other way to express their current emotional state, one of pure, unfiltered adrenaline.
Ice freezes slowly at first, but once a single crystal forms, the water around it becomes eager to freeze. The same principle can be applied to knowledge. It may take awhile for the first person to learn something, but it is inherent to nature to share your knowledge with others. The more people know about something, the more people learn.
Another striking similarity between ice and knowledge is that their spread never starts in just one place. A puddle of water does not freeze straight from one point in the middle, it begins on the edges in multiple places and spreads inwards from there. And as knowledge is like ice, in other places across Terraria, magic was also being discovered. By a human who fell deep into the underworld, forced to learn brimstone magic to survive. Upon her return she had changed, and taught this magic to her small outcast tribe. A merman who tried to save Anahita from her fate, was gifted water magic from the Elemental herself.
Magic slowly spread across the world, and then quickly. Seemingly overnight, the elementals began to receive less and less worship, as their followers had learned to harness magic themselves. The first one to revolt against their followers was the Brimstone Elemental, and her wrath caused fire and flames to spread through the underworld.
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Unrelenting Calamity
FanfictionA Fan Fiction Based off of the Official Calamity Mod lore. -------------------------------------------------- PLEASE READ: The first few chapters are going to be kind of boring, they are mostly setup for the real stuff. Once I start writing interest...
