In the ancient world, magic was woven into the fabric of daily life. Clerics, Paladins, Bards, Sorcerers, Druids, Warlocks, and Wizards were common figures who uplifted the communities around them. Temples to various Gods offered healing to anyone who needed it. Food, water, and shelter were readily available through magical assistance. Warriors who fell in battle could be resurrected. It was not a perfect world, as political disputes and dangerous creatures were still a part of life, but it was a world in balance.

Then, the magic stopped.

The Gods stopped responding. Spellcasters lost their connection to magic in an instant. Healing spells failed. Crops that relied on druids to tend to them withered and died. The once warm and bright temples grew dark and cold. Strangely, only Wizard magic remained. The histories and records are inconclusive, fragmented by the wars, fires, and chaos that followed.

Societal collapse was swift and brutal. Famine and disease devastated communities without magical remedies available. Daily comforts became distant memories. Great heroes lost their power to protect and serve. Wars broke out between those willing to rebuild in this new world and those who wanted things to return at any cost.

Out of that suffering, three factions emerged: the Wizards, who had retained their magic and used it to restore order; the Lords, who had always governed the land and continued to do so under Wizard authority; and the Church of the Dead Gods, born from the communities that gathered in the empty temples to care for one another when the Gods no longer could.

Centuries passed, and the world stabilized and adapted into a somewhat peaceful way of life. Legends and stories are told of when magic used to flow freely across the land, when disease and hunger and pain had easier solutions, when mighty Paladins channeled the power of the Gods. But those are almost children's stories now...

The reasons magic vanished remain contested: the Church has its answer, the Abandoned have their own, and the Wizards say very little on the subject at all.