Introduction to Arcanus of Earth

Topic Introduction to the Arcanus civilisation
Author: Arcanus Historian Odvan and Court Mage of Queen Victoria
Version: Modern English, Imperial dialect
Copy owner by time of print: Queen Victoria, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith, Empress of India

The Sapiens Specimens

Homo Sapiens Mundanus

The common and mundane humans who populate near all landmasses on Earth and use technology instead magic. While inferior to Arcanus, they enter a period of technological and scientific advancement and will reach up to our level petty fast in term of centuries. Being unable to use magic, the Mundanus was able to completely devote themselves to improvements of science and technology

Homo Sapiens Arcanus

The Arcanus are our own magical species with a long lifespan and cannot produce fertile offspring with the Mundanus. In the Prehistorical Era and Ancient Era we had rule over population but after wars between Arcanus with use of Mundanus as meat-shield left us horrible ashamed of our action. We decide to cut off from the Mundane civilisation and went hide. With five thousand years in advancement, we were a very advanced civilisation. When the Mundanus invent the ocean-going ships in late 1400s, the Arcanus had already dominate the air with our airships.

Homo Sapiens Sanguis

The tales of Sagnuis or better know as vampires can date back to the ancient Tomb Kings. In the Prehistorical Era and Ancient Era, the Arcanus was arrogant and ruled over the Mundanus population. A small group of Arcanus otherwise know as Tomb Kings were corrupted by power and searching after immortal life. Down of the road they created a curse/virus which can turn both Mundanus and Arcanus populations to immortal beings demanded on blood to survive.

The Automatons

The first Automatons was created in year 1628 - 1472 BC and was the earliest form of robots with an programmable computer and an limit artificial intelligent used to guarding Arcanus cities and territories. In 1520 the Clockwork Soldier was a masterwork of clock punk and magitech technology and our typical front line soldier with an use of gunpowder to their advantage.

Pan Arcanus Servitium

After the Arcanus have go in hide, we decide to not use they Mundanus population as slaves anymore but loathed all kind of labour and only want to study in our towers. After a search through all of Earth, we found an group of very intelligent apes in Central Africa, today know as chimpanzee, and uplifted them to a true servant species.

Brief history

Ancient Arcanus Era

The Arcanus population had rule the Mundanus population as self-proclaimed gods for several thousands years in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Indus Valley and China and those events later was retold in myths and religions. After a few disastrous wars between Arcanus Mages and Immortal Tomb Kings with their undead armies, we decide to end our rule over the Mundanus population and cut off from the world.

Classic Arcanus Era

The classic era traditional started in year 1750 BC, in a period better know as Five Age of Men (1710 BC - 146 BC) started with a civil war in the city-state Atlantis and ended with Roman conquest of Greece in year 146 BC. This period was responsible for several scientific and technologically advancements as creation of airships and automatons and uplifting chimpanzee to a servant species. Many discovering surrounding magic was also created and examined. Those events was retold in the Greece Mythology

Isolationist Arcanus Era

A ideology was formed about non-interference and the Arcanus of Eurasia decided to go into the shadows. The order of Illuminati was created to be Earth's protector against rouge Arcanus mages and vampires as well guide the humanity in secret. The most know exemplar was the proto-unification of England by High King Arthur Pendragon and his mentor Arcanus mage Merlin the Great. Our civilisation was more or less stagnated at this period.

Modern Arcanus Era

Discovering of another Arcanus civilisation in America in year 1520 forced Arcanus of Eurasia to come out of hide. From this point the Eurasian mages play a greater political role in Europa and rest of the world for The Greater Good

Points of Divergence

• The Last Emperor of Byzantine Empire, Constantine XI Palaiologos, and his people fled to Atlantis City in Crete after the fall of Constantinople in 1453. After the Arcanus came out of hide, the grandson of Constantine XI claimed Atlantis City as the third Rome and usurped Crete where he created Kingdom of Elysium in 1520.

• John Cabot, a Venetian navigator and explorer, discovered the lost Vinland colony in 1497 who still was around. Both the navigator and the Vikings was surprised by the discovering and agreed to open a trade route between England and Vinland. Because of this discovering, a high unification and cultural movement started in Kalmarunion which lead to the foundation of the national state Scandinavia.

• The Spanish Conquistador Hernán Cortés de Monroy utterly failed on his conquest of the Aztec Empire and died in a sacrifice on the top of the Main Ziggurat Temple in Aztec's capital in year 1520. From this point, the colonisation slowed down and the European colonial powers chose to adopter a native trading policy with establishment of trade posts instead colonies.

• The Arcanus of both Europe and Asia had judged they can't force other Arcanus in America and Africa to drop their arrogant rule of the native Mundanus population and go into hide as the Treaty of Ma'at demanded of them. Risk for the Pope of this time would declare a crusade against the false "gods" was also big and they knew what the result will be; a devastating one-side war. Therefor the Arcanus came out of hide in 1520 mostly for save the Mundanus from their stupidity

Civilisations of Earth

Technology and Science follow different paths so we can't easily compare each civilisation and grouping them into a tech level because their environments did not provide the same challenges and opportunities with one civilisation be more advanced on certain areas of science and technology than others.
Instead I have grouping the civilisations based on regional cultural identity from this point of the divergence from our own history in year 1520.

Atlantean

The most advanced civilisation on earth. While technically we was stagnated at Bronze Age with use of magic to solve everyday problems, we had evolve past the other civilisations in term of medical, sociology, communication, transportation, economical and basal every branch of science and technology which can be solve with magic. With a long tradition for allowing immigrates from dying cultures to seek refugee in their cities as well other Arcanus from across Africa, Europa and Asia visited Atlantis City in a pilgrimage, we have avoided a total stagnation.

Major Arcanus cities

Atlantis City, Crete
Shambhala City, Himalaya
Aztlán City, Mexico

European

They was in the middle of the most interesting period of their civilisation with religious reformations, culturally renaissance, commercial revolution, introduction of gunpowder in warfare, centralisation of national states and a rise of globalising. In the top of all - the discovering of another sapient species live around them in secretly since the fall of Tomb Kings in Bronze Age with a archive filled up with historical records dating back to the dawn of time.

Major States

Kingdom of France
Kingdom of England
Kingdom of Scotland
Kingdom of Portugal
Kingdom of Scandinavian
Ottoman Empire
Habsburg Empire

Other political powers

Italian city-states and republics
Most Serene Republic of Venice
Byzantine Government in exile
Lordship of Ireland
Grand Principality of Moscov
Princes of Holy Roman Empire
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Mayincatec

Medical Science was superior to European counterpart with a healthy and hygienic society and agriculture was on the same level compared to some part of Europe. Their Astronomical knowledge was insanely advanced than the other civilisation on Earth and had a advanced education and social structure as well excelled in mathematics, arts and architecture. Their military, metallurgy and political science was otherwise inferior to Europeans but thank to their Arcanus Overlords, they could withstand the colonisation

Major Powers

Mexican Confederation
League of Mayapan
Inca Empire
Spanish West Indies

Other Cultures

Puebo Confederation
Central America Civilisations
Andean Civilisations

High American

Around year 1000 a group of Mundanus colonist and Arcanus mages, landed on North America, approximately five centuries prior to the voyages of Christopher Columbus and John Cabot. The Arcanus of Scandinavia and the locale Arcanus helped with the growth of the viking colony. Metallurgy, long ships, Christendom, Writing system, their social structure, architecture and early feudalism started to spread around the neighbourhood.

Major Powers

Kingdom of Vinland
Mississippian Empire
European trade ports

Other Cultures

East Coast civilisation
Great Lakes civilisation
Great Plains civilistation