Author: Amber Benson
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- IN: The End of Magic (2017) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: In the beginning there was magic. It laced the world together, binding its many pieces into their proper place and maintaining balance. It filled the universe with a sense of the extraordinary, turning journeys into quests, learning into power life into destiny.
But change is as inevitable as it is necessary. So the days of magic's dominance waned, and the world shifted, swapping the variables from one side of the equation to the other. The disparate pieces of the old world lost their shape and were torn asunder. Humanity shucked its innocence and magic was discarded. The sense of wonder that once suffused the world was slowly extinguished, leaving a darker void in its wake. A sense of complacency rose up to cradle us and we gave in, settled for eschewing the old ways in favour of the new.
To our horror, the world became a place of soulless evil and corruption. One in which we chose to bow down before an altar dedicated wholly to ourselves...
FROM: Dawn 1:3 The Book of The Flood, (2017), Fictional, NULL