Many years ago the four kingdoms lived in peace.
In the East was the humans; friendly, incompetent creatures. No special powers or abilities, always the peacekeepers. What they did have were numbers. The other three kingdoms didn't have anything on the humans, so they agreed to the peace treaty.
In the South were the faeries; magical and gorgeous. A faerie was born with a special ability, whether it be telepathy or just changing eye colours, all faeries had one. In the Southern Kingdom, faeries may have ruled, but there was another creature living there too. The elves are not magical, nor very special. Some say they are mutated faeries, living without magic. They hated that they were looked down upon, that they didn't have their own kingdom. They didn't want to keep the peace treaty.
In the West was the vampires; cold, literally and figuratively, distant, and cruelly beautiful. Skin like porcelain, eyes coloured like a cats. They were stronger, faster, and lived longer than humans. But, they were not immortal. The vampires were the last to sign the peace treaty, hesitant because they need to feed on blood to survive. The King of the East offered the idea to the King of the West that the vampires could just drink animal blood. Vampires haven't fed on humans or faeries since, except for the occasional rebel.
In the North was the witches, proud but respectable magical beings. Unlike faeries, witches were born with all magic, not just one ability. Witches were the most powerful beings, their kingdom was to be feared. But they were kind, and were the first to sign the peace treaty. Although they were powerful, they were the smallest kingdom. This proved to be end of them 15 years ago.
The elves came up with a plan: spread a rumour that the witches were planning to take over the kingdoms, gather up the kingdoms to attack the witches, kill them all and take over the Northern Kingdom.
So they did exactly that.
The vampires and faeries agreed right away to attack the witches when they wouldn't see it coming, but the humans refused, they didn't believe the rumours. It didn't matter if the humans joined anyway, with the faeries, elves, and vampires, the army headed towards the North was five times larger than the population of the witches.
In the end, the entirety of the witches was wiped out, and the elves have taken over the Northern Kingdom.
They called it the "Northern War".
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King of the North
FantasíaBlase Novaro is the only witch alive since the Northern War, a war that wiped out the witch population. After ten years of being trapped in an old elf's basement he was finally free, but completely and utterly broken. Unable to end himself because o...
