The wildlife and even the earth took on powerful new strength, resulting in such a dangerous surface that the humans had to resort to living in underground bunkers. Which eventually became underground villages, and then sweeping cities. The war also resulted in the outlawing of all magic use. Spellbooks, tomes, history books; those that were found were all burned. History became rewritten through biased takes, highlighting the destructive nature of anything to do with magic or mages.

Aurelia was born nearly a century after the war, in one of the major cities known as Oreville. In most cities, people were divided by the poor and the rich - or better known as the lower and higher class. So divided were they, that they didn't even live on the same levels. The lower classes lived at the very lowest regions, deepest into the ground. Some people there never saw the light of day in their life. Aurelia decided early on that she would be different.

Her father died in an accident involving magic when she was still young, but old enough to understand death and to feel an uncontrollable anger over it. This fury and frustration channeled into her teen years, guiding her on a dark path that her mother tried her hardest to redirect. It only resulted in rebellion, resentment, and further spiral. Her life was hard-lived, never seeming to get ahead even when she clawed for it. The game was rigged from the very beginning and, after the death of her ill mother, Aurelia reasoned that there would never be a way out.

That was, until she met a man by the name of Agron. He opened up a door to her that allowed her to provide a better life for her younger sisters and herself; hunting down known criminals that chose to use magic. Since it was such a serious crime, the government took great care to pay its bounty hunters generously for the risks they were taking. At first it was about the money but eventually it became something more. A fire lit within her to find the one responsible for her father's death, whether she knew who it was or not didn't matter. She was blinded and bittered by her fury all of her life and suddenly... she gave it a purpose, an outlet. She hunted without mercy and without relent. She lost herself in the process.

It's because of this that she ended up in Caido. Hunting mages was always risky business, but none had ever been as powerful as her final target. All Aurelia knew was that one moment she was there, fighting for her life, and the next she was gone. Not dead, but gone. Floating in limbo, cursed to spend the rest of her life stuck, trapped, with no one but herself for company. It wasn't very long that she was there, however.

Something else pulled her back. Some mysterious force, which she would soon learn was a Goddess known as the Voice, chose her. Brought to Caido for some reason she couldn't fathom, she was faced with a startlingly new reality. She had to re-evaluate the way she looked at life, magic, religion, and herself. She found that she had not been true to who she was or fair to others for her entire life. Striving to redeem herself, she seeks a higher path. But wounds long-untended leave lasting scars.

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