Many years before the Silver Millennium– The development of the magic civilization.
––– Civilization is pretty basic and easily compared to the early Viking age here on Earth. at this point, Nocturna has had some outside contact with other worlds, enough to know about senshi, Cosmos, mauvians, and the like. It was a relatively peaceful time. Life was simple, and magic was a novelty.
– The develop of machine technology is in its infancy.
––– It can be speculated that a Mauvian visited Nocturna to see if they could locate a Senshi of that world, but none was found at that time. They possibly introduced some basic technology that would help jump start Nocturna's progression. However, it is unclear if this is truth or very ancient myth.
The Silver Millennium begins– The use of technology spreads throughout Nocturna.
––– Technology starts off as basic things just to help make life easier, but over the next couple hundred years, becomes expansive and excessive, with entire new cities dedicated to it and its development.
– The use of machines and technology in society begins to surpass magic.
– The technology based civilizations reach their peak.
––– A protective barrier that is a mix or technology and magic is developed and deployed into the atmosphere of Nocturna, blocking all entry into the planet without invitation.
––––– A 'landing pad' or 'welcome station' for visitors is constructed in the technology-based city of Yissel. It is built to keep track of the landing of off-planet visitors.
Early Silver Millennium– The world begins to divide in to magic vs machine politics.
––– There begins to be a big divide between those who can wield magic, and those who choose to use technology. Since only certain people trained and studied in the use of magic can wield it, and anyone regardless of training can use technology, magic users are viewed as 'elitists' and those who are big in to tech develop a seemingly self-imposed persecution complex.
–––––– At the cusp of war, all outside entry to Nocturna is blocked off completely, coincidentally stranding a Mauvian ambassador seeking out the world's senshi on Nocturna.
– War breaks out as the divide reaches peak tension.
––– The city-country of Xenar, mainly using magic as a method of combat, fights with the machine-armed city-country of Yissel.
(Both countries are technology-heavy civilizations, but Yissel, which mainly uses machine weapons, as opposed to the still heavy magical influence in Xenar, are dominant from the beginning. Xenar inevitably falls.)––––––– In a desperate measure, the lord of Xenar, a powerful magic user, tapped in to a dark and mysterious magic on the night his wife was giving birth to their child. The ritual resulted in the death of his wife, as well as the birth of the first (eventual) Sailor Nocturna....and a great magical beast that would become known as Requiem.
–––––––––––– Requiem's first action is to destroy Xenar, and Yissel, before it destroys the remaining machine-based civilizations.
–––––––––––––––– The citizens of Nocturna are lead to think that the Great Beast Requiem was summoned by Lord Xenar in desperate retribution for Yissel's attack on Xenar, and later on be twisted in to what the general populace would believe was done in despair for his wife's death at the hand of the warriors of Yissel, and thus a righteous and just anger inflicted upon the world, from which they must all repent. A Dogma that Lord Xenar is glad to use to his advantage.
– The survivors start work on the reconstruction of Nocturna, focusing on Xenar.
––– Over the following years, because Requiem attacks technology-heavy civilizations when they try to rebuild, there is a widening trend of people abandoning machines.
– The Dogma of Xenar is created; By propagating the dogma of repentance and preaching of machine prohibition – a dogma absorbed throughout the world -- and seizing public sentiment, the the rebuilt kingdom of Xenar takes complete psychological and political control of Nocturna. From then on all the civilizations on Nocturna, despite once being separate countries, are united under one governing rule.
––– Xenar establishes a new psedo-religious government along with the Temples of Nocturna, spearheading the governance of the citizens of Nocturna through teaching the already newly established dogma and cementing its psychological control on the world, preaching the 'Dogma of Xenar' and operating like a Secret Police as well.
–Lord Xenar's daughter is awakened as the first Sailor Nocturna.
––– The Temples add the concept that Requiem is a punishment for all of people’s sins into its doctrine. At the same time, it spreads the story that Sailor Nocturna can get rid of Requeim by sacrificing themself to it in the name of all of the citizen's Nocturna's sins, but to give her the power to do so they must believe in Xenar's doctrine.
–Yissel, which has remained in ruins for many years now, and was the former welcome station to people from outside the world of Nocturna, becomes a new project for Lord Xenar.
––– Yissel was once an extravagant city, but more impressive than its outwards appearance was its literal underworld. With all its advanced technology, the people of Yissel dug deep into the ground and created a subtropolis, and although the surface of Yissel was rubble, there was still a very viable structure underneath.
–––––– Repairs and modifications were made over the next many years, known only to Xenar and his most trusted members of government. This Secret Council would make its base here.
––––––––––– Knowing outside worlds would eventually try to make contact with Nocturna, they needed a plan to open up to accepting outside visitors again, but also keep the people of Nocturna from seeking outside help or leaving, and keep them believing in the Dogma of Xenar. So, they came together and with magic and 'forbidden' technology, crafted the fake world of Xenargloam within Yissel.
– Upon Xenargloam's completion, and the crafting of new magic that would transport anyone who crossed the techni-magic barrier of the Nocturna atmosphere to the landing pad of Xenargloam. Outside visitors would never see the
real Nocturna or its people, only this fake world, with its fake people who seemed so real, it was almost like they once
were real, as if this city once truly was, and in truth -- Xenargloam was built on the memories of what the city of Xenar and Yissel once were, but combined and made greater by the powers, memories, thoughts, wishes and will of Xenar and his Secret Council.
––– On the surface the Ruins of Yissel would be shrouded in fog and dark tales spread about how it was the only place that the Great Beast Requiem could be defeated by the power of Sailor Nocturna. All this to keep the citizens of Nocturna away, and it would work, as any who entered the ruins would never end up leaving, save for the council, and no one knew that they had their secret gathering there within the depths of Yissel, or their secret city of Xenargloam.
– The sacrifice of the first Sailor Nocturna comes to pass, and with her death so too does Requiem seem to disappear. For a time.
Many many years later– A new Sailor Nocturna is born (not yet awakened) and Requiem begins to awaken again, it's body slowly regenerating until one day it makes its first appearance in many years.
– The Temples have to explain the return of Requiem. Very few know what really brought about the birth of the Great Beast or its tenuous connection to their Senshi, but those who do are high up on the governing order, and quickly come up with an explanation, and tell the people to pray for the return of Sailor Nocturna, that she may again appear to do battle with Requiem. This was explained with further justifications, but long story short, corrupt governments and magical beasts, control of the people, tale as old as time. The Government continued to spread other stories and dogma in order to sustain the people’s hope.
– Lord Xenar dies, but due to his strong will and spirit of purpose, along with the people of Nocturna's belief in his will (The Dogma of Xenar) he lives on as a Tulpa, and no one knows that he is dead, and his rule continues.
––– As the members of his Secret Council die, they too are forced by Tulpa Xenar to 'live on' as he does. The people of Nocturna would question at first, but this was quickly stomped out and explained away in one way or another, and as the years went on, and generations came and went, the memory of how things once were and happened faded away from the layman's knowledge. History was re-told, re-written, and a new normal sat heavy upon Nocturna.
– The singular Mauvian who was trapped on Nocturna was getting old, and without them, Nocturna had no hope of their Senshi being re-awoken. They were ready to welcome death if for no other reason than to spite Xenar, however, Xenar knew the Senshi was important to his control, and thus the Mauvian, like his council, was made to continue an un-life. The Mauvian however, in this state, did not have the power to awaken or create, much to Xenar's chagrin, and over the course of the rest of the Silver Millennium there would be a great Cat-and-Mouse game between the two, as a new Sailor Nocturna would awaken on their own and the cat would show up sporadically with cryptic old-talking-cat ramblings, and disappear, not-so-helpfully trying to guide the Senshi to the truth, while avoiding the wrath of Tulpa Xenar.
This cycle of Sacrifice would continue for many years until.....
The Silver Millennium begins to fall, and Chaos takes root-- ??? number of years ago, a Chaos Seed found its way to the world of Nocturna and buried itself deep within the darkest part of it - within the Artificial City of Xenargloam.
-- For several decades the Chaos Seed was left undiscovered, slowly growing and taking root.
----- The effects of the Chaos seed are not apparent at first, but once fertile soil and calm waters seemed....different. Less healthy, more unwieldy. Creatures seemed to be acting abnormally, especially birds and bugs. Eventually they would begin spontaneously dying off, and crops became harder to grow and water tasted of sulphur. The once healthy glow of the landscape was becoming dark and gritty.
-- 530 years ago Dulcia is born.
-- An anomaly is reported within Xenargloam.
---- Xenar orders the anomaly brought to him. It is the Chaos Seed. Xenar can feel the dark, chaotic, power within, and between his own dark desires and the seduction of Chaos, he one with this dark parasite hoping to use its power, but the power of Chaos was too great, and Xenar's slow spiral in to madness now hastened in to undeniable megalomania that even his Secret Council were wary of.
-- 515 years ago, Dulcia is awoken as Sailor Nocturna.
-- The shadows start taking hold all over Nocturna, there is fighting and creatures, feral and beastlike, invading, terrible and volatile weather, and the whole world is wracked with fear and uncertainty.
-- 512 years ago, Dulcia reaches Eternal, and over her time as Senshi, she has been trying to find another way to destroy Requiem and help save her world from whatever this plague that has taken hold of it is. She has been uncovering secrets and lies, exposing the truth to the people of Nocturna.
-- The people of Nocturna had become divided again. This time, not by technology vs magic, but faith vs despair. And for everyone who lost their faith, Xenar would lose power, but at the cost of the Chaos Seed taking more control over him.
-- Having put some pieces together, Sailor Nocturna.....goes to the place she is supposed to confront Requiem. But she has a plan! The Great Beast has weakened just as Xenar has weakened. Sailor Nocturna has reason to believe that her confronting Requiem will draw out Xenar, and true to form, it does.
----- Requiem is weakened, and Xenar, now a monstrous and truly appalling shell of his former self, appears to deliver his villainous monologue which would unveil the truth of
everything to Nocturna and why she must now die. However, unlike the Sailor Nocturna's before her, she knew this was going to happen, because she had put the pieces together, and she was ready.
---------- Before she could act however, the Chaos Seed, likely sensing the impending demise of it's host, drained the last bit of power Xenar had, and he rumbled away in to nothing, as did the Great Beast Requiem.
-------------------- The Chaos seed floated there, quadruple in size to what it was when it first arrived on Nocturna. The Senshi stared at it in horror and confusion, repulsed by the energy it gave of. This was not something she had factored in, much less knew about. it was then the Chaos Seed lashed out, sending a great wave of power that shook the land and knocked the Eternal Senshi to her feet. She knew this thing needed to be stopped, and she didn't know how, but she was ready to give it her all when.....
Something Happened
For the next several hundred years Chaos would
devastate the world of Nocturna. As of 200 years ago, all life, save for the Senshi of Nocturna would vanish. left behind were the ruins of a world that had already been suffering under the thumb of an undead megalomaniacal ruler and his false government with delusions of absolute power. For those 200 years, deep within the ruins of a temple, the Senshi of Nocturna slept, laying in a bed of pure white flowers until one day....
A Spark~
