Editing Magical Realm Cyoa/Megalodonia (section)

==Brief History and General Overview==

Futuristic Modern era civilization filled with magic and magitech. The people live in scattered city states on a great Pangaea, totaling 10 billion inhabitants. Early in this land's civilization about 2500 years ago, its people were brought to the brink of extinction and collapse, a cosmic horror from beyond space and time descended upon the world and corrupted the land and nature itself. The magical flora and fauna grew, mutated and evolved rapidly and became deadly and toxic to consume. Diseases and infertility plagues culled and sterilized two thirds of the population. But the people persevered, survivors and mountain hermits developed a way of life that incorporated fitness, health, mental discipline and fortitude as well as magic into a martial life philosophy known as The Path of the Enduring Mountain, or simply shortened to The Path. They developed methods to cleanse diseases, fight off the monsters, cancerous vegetation and horrible aberrations at their doorsteps, purify the water, flora and fauna of the cosmic horror's taint so it is made safe for domestication and consumption and even found ways to partially remedy infertility. The first true muscle wizard masters after centuries of struggle, eventually subdued the cosmic horror and imprisoned it underneath an enormous mystical mountain; Mount Megalodon. Yet its madness continues to seep into the land and its wild and savage malice still threatens to consume civilization.

Megalodonia's distant past is mired in myth and fables, most modern Megalodonians understand their past through allegories of muscle magic philosophy, parables and epics that have been passed down in oral tradition, with each retelling adding on more and more cryptic layers of fiction and half-truths. Actual historical records that stretch to the days of the cosmic horror is fragmented and undecipherable, and exist in barely recognizable ancient ruins littered around Mount Megalodon’s base. Rumors and hushed whispers speak of complete records and secrets of Megalodonia's past sitting idly in the ever shifting labyrinths and catacombs nestled in the dark shadowy quarantined zones, contaminated heavily with the cosmic horror's lingering malice. Where living tendrils of pitch blackness, static gray nightmares and other horrendous evil spirits roam those non-euclidean confines. Few dare to venture into those dark depths and even fewer return alive or with their sanity unscathed.

Fast forward to the present day, over two millennia of forced natural selection, adaptation and immunization to the horrors of this deadly land, as well as staunch adherence to the guiding teachings of the Path, has made the people super-humanly strong and large of stature. The average female stands 7-9 feet tall, whilst the average males stand head and shoulders even above their fairer gender counterparts at around 9-12 feet tall. Unfortunately, the lingering effects of male infertility persist to this day and modern Megalodonian societies are cursed with highly skewed 90% female demographics. All adult males are accomplished muscle wizards that guide, teach and govern the people living in scattered city states too numerous to count, separated by vast death jungles and civilization devouring wilderness. Each city state has its own flare of customs and traditions, but overall universally themed around a meritocratic warrior-scholar culture and system of governance, adhering to the principles of muscle magic and the Path of the Enduring Mountain, where strength, skill and courage is acknowledged beyond all else, and chivalry and honor is upheld by every citizen, lest society breaks down and the ravenous and malicious nature reclaims back the land.

Daily life in Megalodonia is thrilling, work is abundant and there is much to do, from fighting back the violent nature that encroaches upon the cities, to ferrying and transporting enormous armored cargo and trade caravans through the horrendously dangerous badlands, to setting out on great expeditions to uncover the secrets of this wild land, for fun and profit or to establish new city states. Many more spend their lifetimes honing the ancient martial spell casting art of muscle wizardry to the level of a grand master and beyond or becoming guardians of the mountain, ensuring the cosmic horror never escapes its prison. Regardless of profession, social status or wealth, pulp fiction adventures and jolly corporation awaits for each Megalodonian.