How the universe works

How magic appeared and how the universe generally works

See, magic has always existed, people just didn't really notice it until it started having bigger impacts or alternating something in appearance. From the years -4500 to the years 3100, magic has always played it's role but only started being a big deal around the years 2200 when creatures looking mostly human but with special features started showing up. Now, as I mentionned, magic was always there, so, why did we suddenly go from humans to vampires and demons? Where did they come from and why didn't humans simply evolve into those creatures?

Let me rewind, starting by the person who changed our universe as we know it in a drastic way. Hanabi Todorame, first of the name, a woman born with albinism in Japan, 1921. Most of her life, she was ridiculed because of her pale features, often called a "ghost" by people of her village. Hanabi Todorame had mental issues which got affected pretty badly by all of the teasing, she started developping the undenying urge to change something, either she'd change herself or change society. She first started doing experiments around the age of 15, in 1936, playing with pigments and melanin to try and darken herself. Obviously enough, her multiple attempts, with no degree or even studies of any sorts, failed. She, then, decided that she would change society, or, at least, change enough people so that her condition would become the new majority. She started experimenting on people around her village by kidnapping the most vulnerable she could find, and, after some time, she got caught. She was however, caught by a village member and not sent to justice. They, instead, thought she was possessed rather than insane and tried exorcisim. It, obviously, did not work. Seeing how she successfully lightened a single person's hair and skin color a little bit, she decided to pursue her experiments even further, playing along and pretending to be possessed whenever being caught. After a while, Hanabi decided that her technique needed a challenge and that her little village was no longer useful, running away during the night in october 1938 with her parents's money and fleeing to America, far enough so that no one could recognize her. Arriving in America and seeing the diversity in people's physique compared to her small conservative village gave her a bigger challenge than she had planned. Hanabi realized that the melanin changed a lot from people to people and that her dosage may not be enough to alternate some people's appearance enough to pass them off as albino. She gave herself the mission to "collect" people of different ethnicities to have a larger sample, allowing her to find out how much melanin she needed to extract from each person in order to create her growing army. She was insane but still smart enough not to try to hide all of these people into a basement, risking the screams to be heard, so she decided to sail away with all of them, thinking experiments aboard a ship would be far enough from civilization to take all of the time she needed to perfect her technique and, she was right, she went far. Really far. The boat sailed away from North Carolina to the Atlantic ocean in 1940, containing 76 captives and Hanabi aboard. The boat was caught into a storm and crashed into the middle of nowhere, at least 1000km away from any land. Still, by some sort of miracle, Hanabi and 58 of the prisoners washed up onto the shore of an island. An island which wasn't added onto the map until the year 2176. The Island was small, about the size of 3 baseball fields, which would explain why it wasn't discovered yet. Hanabi still hadn't given up on her sick dream and decided to retrieve as much of her equipment as she could find laying around while the prisoners were forced to build some sort of base to live in, some sort of weird, and really big, house. For 23 days straight, prisoner would work on building the base while Hanabi wandered around trying to recover some ressources for her experiments, 19 prisoners perishing from fatigue, disease, infections, cold, hunger and, generally, poor conditions. One of the prisoners stood aside and refused to work, escaping everyday since day 3 into the forest and digging, perhaps from insanity or a last resort, mostly caused by the sheer condition she was in mentally and physically. Her name was Alice. Alice digged and digged and kept digging everyday a little bit deeper, the same hole, a deep, steep, vertical tunnel. The gods must've heard her despair because, by some sort of miracle, Alice digged deep enough to break the bond between two realities. Alice digged to wonderland. (Mind you I love Alice in Wonderland and added this aspect of the lore YEARS ago, I, in no way, claim the rights to the original work. It's just a fun little easteregg I kept :>)