Editing Magical Realm Cyoa/Aventyr (section)

== '''History''' ==
The beginning of Aventyran history was for the most part peaceful, with only a single race of people, with technological progress abounding. 
Science was approaching the singularity, up until the great mistake. This mistake was never recorded, and historians and philosophers today will debate for weeks at a time as to the nature of the mistake.
The only thing known about this mistake is that it is the direct cause of the Division. The event that split one race into six.
Many of the newly-created races committed suicide in the aftermath, but those that remained stuck together and shunned those that did not look like themselves.
While this is looked down upon today, back then it was fear and confusion that ruled, with outsiders met with hostility.
Fighting between the new races caused emnity, but spurred technological progress in the name of domination. War became a way of life, with every girl learning to swing a sword and shoot a bow before their tenth birthday. Some places had martial arts developing, while others melted into the shadows, striking while unseen.
The automatons were largely intact, yet were unable to be used for war due to programming. This made them suitable to performing the needs of Aventyr but not their demands.
Many different wars were fought between the different races, until none of the original Aventyrans remained. In the space of a few thousand years hundreds of generations were born and killed, with the full extent of their new longevity not becoming apparently until much later.
As time went on communications between the new races were established, and over time the barriers were broken down, while fighting was slower to come to a halt.
Some prejudices were maintained longer than others, but today both the overall unity and the technology of Aventyr is approaching that of history's peak.
Most of the racism and hatred has subsided but the capital cities still remain relatively racially pure, though this is changing with the newer generations born into peacetime.

The people of Piekur were in the mountains when the Division happened, because of this they developed bird-like features and their skeleton melded with the ores around them, resulting in a skeleton that is significantly lighter yet as strong as the skeleton of a human. The colour of both their hair and their feathers have become legendary, with bright hues and shades of every colour imaginable.

The people of Aripur were in a lush green land, which was ground zero for the Division. This caused the continent to shatter and the land around them to become a desert, with hardly any greenery. While the land changed, so did the surviving flora and fauna. No longer fragile, it thrives in the sun and sand, and the people themselves are cat-like, one of the creatures native to the land to which they developed a likeness. The hills and mountains typically have forests in their shadow.

The people of Icamur were at aquatic research stations when this happened, and gained fish-like traits as a result. The main feature is the fish-like tail from the waist down, which can change into legs given enough focus. Inexplicably the Merr can breathe both in air and in water with no visible indication as to how this is; no gills can be seen on their necks or the sides.

The lamias of Laidur were in and around reptiles and snakes when the Division occurred which lead to the development of a snake-like tail many times their original size, and the alteration of their circulatory system to partially cold-blooded. With this comes to ability to manipulate their metabolism, enabling them to hibernate when the weather becomes too cold for them.
The ones that remained human were the lucky ones, in the beginning. They did not change anything, nor did they gain anything of note. They were at the very centre of the Division, yet remained unaffected even as those around them mutated and changed.

The elves of Naishur were the most drastically affected, as they were in the forests of Metsa when the Division changed them, and merged them with the trees around them. Their skin darkened to a deep chocolate brown, while their eyes and hair become leaf-green. Their ears took a branch-like length and they became slender and tall. Following their change they became closer to nature, viewing the forests of their home as much more, close to cousins to them now. Recent times have them developing almost all of Aventyr's technology in an environmentally-friendly way, or at least making all others follow their code of ethics regarding side-effects.