This was such a wonderful response! Thank you!
I loved your questions about events slowing or speeding up progress and if magic speeds things up. or if something happened to put knowledge back…
I imagine the answer was right in front of me.
The Gods introduced magic to humans as a means to better govern and oversee themselves but some wizards took this for divine right and and sought to rule absolutely.
In a way, magic-wielding people are responsible for hindering the land from stabilizing.
The Gods add more magic into the mix, creating a peaceful shape-shifting species that is meant to remind the people of the need for balance between magic, humans, and nature. But the bad wizards wipe them out when they refuse to fight in their war.
Then our heroine’s species is created: a magical shape-shifting species like before but as predators and warriors. Enforcers and protectors of the land and humans. My timeline has the Felidaeni standing up to the bad guy for more than 5 centuries.
Basically, though, they introduce a stalemate to the land at the expense of their own people. everyone is divided and the humans try to rule themselves but fight amongst each other. When the bad guy finally seems to have exterminated the Felidaeni, now he just has to conquer the weak and divided humans.
The conflict and extermination of most wizards, the first shifting people (originally called the Ca’Felia) and the Felidaeni are those events that set knowledge and peace back.
So in answer to your questions, it would almost seem like magic is one of the root causes of unrest in my world. It was meant to be a solution, and it absolutely can, but only in the right hands. Problem is, magic has been inherited and with it, came arrogance and feeling they deserve this or that instead of earning it.
Thank you so much for posing those questions to me @mysupernaturalfics because I think I finally can accept and understand the timeline I’ve created. I’m gonna save all this stuff I wrote down too.
Also, I hope this was interesting info for others to read. I tried to avoid the bigger spoilers. Most of this all happens before book one of @the-panthera-prophecy series! LOL
If anyone ever wants to talk to me about my WIPs I totally welcome the interest as it gets my interest in writing flowing.
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