Knowing that there were more humans that he could rally under the banner of Xerxes, he, along with warriors pulled from all corners of Xerxes, set out west to bring those who lived on the western side of the pangea under his banner either through negotiations, or by force. This would ultimately cost Lokar's life and most of his forces that he had brought with him. He had started with a force of 500,000 troops, and less than 8,000 would return from the failed campaign against Osirus, who had managed to rally and defeat the Xerxes force with 100,000, all of whom were practitioners of magic, and had been cut down to 10,000 before all was said and done.
Both the question of Lokar's successor back home, who did not have a male child and only one daughter, as well as the question of Lokar's abuse of power which had wasted so many lives in what was ultimately deemed a useless quest of greed, caused the southern half of Xerxes to rebel, and the rebels emerged victorious as they formed the nation of Atlantis which as of today is another major power in the Tech world. The invasions of Lokar's forces also began the bitter hatred between the two different cultures of Magi and Tech, with the Magi deeming their enemy as greedy barbaric weak-bloods who were attempting to gain power they did not deserve. The Tech nations, on the other hand, saw Magi as 'unnatural' creatures who wield powers of divine beings, and their existence was an affront to the Supreme One.
Shortly after Atlantis was formed, however, disagreements immediately emerged and civil strife threatened to tear the new nation apart. However, due to them having just fought a civil war against Xerxes, those who did not want to remain instead simply left to create their own nation further into the east, the nation of Ouswa. Ouswa would unfortunately have the most chaotic history of the great nations, which was now currently occupied by Atlantis, Xerxes, and the current superpower of the Tech world, Montania.
Despite the civil war, Xerxes continued to press east all the way to the sea, discovering what was initially named the Montanian Range, and is now known as the Great Mountains of Montania.
Ironically, on the other side of the pangea, a similar set of great mountains also resided in the top corner, which are referred to as the Dragon Mountains.
Seeing an opportunity when they first discovered the Great Mountains, Xerxes commanders began training legions of soldiers in the harsh and ruthless mountains, even going so far as to leave full families at the mercy of the mountain. In return, after a few generations of full training, the elite Montanian Corps began, and their mission, to go deep into the sea that lay before them and conquer any land that they discover.
Eventually, a force of 800,000 forces were assembled, which led to the eventual victory of Visigoth and the creation of the Great Storm mentioned earlier.
Once again, the failure of a large campaign caused another uprising, and Xerxes, believing that they had learned their lesson from Atlantis and could put down a second rebellion more effectively, attempted to put down the Montanian rebellion by force, only to be defeated once more and the nation of Montanian was born.
Unlike the nation of Atlantis, whose leaders were divided after the birth of the nation, and divided into two separate nations and avoided further confrontation with Xerxes, the Montanians held a much stronger sense of unity, nearly of the all families trained under the harsh conditions of the Great Mountains together, and together, decided to attempt to take the 'weak' empire of Xerxes for their own.
The Montanians eventually took half of Xerxes before they were stopped, leading to an almost never ending bloody history between the two great powers, with many victories and defeats on both sides until the boundaries of today were established after the Great War of the 1960's, when Xerxes, finally exhausted all of it's supplies in a war which had gone on for twenty years, ended up spilling over into all of the nations of the eastern half of the pangea, each nations picking and choosing sides, and came to an abrupt end when Xerxes broke an unspoken truce between all nations. Xerxes dropped four atomic bombs at the advancing enemy army to broker for a truce, the bombs themselves having been created in the early stages of the war. Montania had won the race, but Xerxes had only turned out to be six months behind, and while the two nations scrambled for the weapons, both had also been hesitant to use them.
Casualties during the Great War had already been in the upward of fifty to sixty million at the time the bombs were dropped, and most were already tired of the destructive twenty year war. But it would be the Four Great Disasters which had, in a flash, added hundreds of thousands to that list, plus the countless more who had been affected by the fallout, and had nearly led to the end of almost all life in the eastern pangea, but ultimately instead led to the established peace as well as the Tech Alliance Organization, or TAO for short. TAO was, in lament's terms, an open assembly of all Tech nations which could act in the interest of the all Tech nations. All of this would go through normal channels of diplomacy, and eventually put to vote before the five TAO Councilmen. Each Councilmen represented each of the five major powers, Montania, Xerxes, Atlantis, the current representative of the occupied Ouswa, and lastly the Coalition of Smaller Nations representative, who held the tie breaker vote between the four major powers.
The purpose of this organization? To prevent another full scale war like the Great War, and many times during the turbulent 70's and 80's era, the council worked around the clock as tensions between the great nations rose, fell, and rose again until the 'Peace' decade, the 90's, finally eased off a great portion of the tension between the nations with near endless demonstrations for peace all across the great nations, ranging from worker strikes to protests to throwing false votes during election years until finally the nations yielded to their people and established more friendly and open relationships as TAO's authority over it's members was increased.
Unfortunately, however, TAO has come under active fire by many, and the Coalition of Smaller Nations had withdrawn from TAO as a result of the ongoing Ouswan occupation, which a number believe either Montania, Xerxes, Atlantis, or even all three of them, have been using TAO as an excuse to continue their occupation of Ouswa and the failure of TAO to bring any form of peace to Ouswa, which was currently in revolt all across Ouswa.
In 2003, an extremist named Jackie Harnigan rose to power in Ouswa, promising that Ouswa, which was in a state of depression at the time, would be restored to it's former glory and began establishing Ouswa as a military state. TAO immediately began to take action, calling for sanctions and such, but it was finally when the invasion of the Smaller Nations begun that TAO called for a military intervention, a short 3 year campaign which would ultimately end in disaster as Jackie, who had been sure to keep a nuclear bomb close to himself at all time as a form of 'personal insurance', ordered the launch of all of Ouswa's nuclear weapons as he 'led the way', detonating his 'personal' nuke in Haphster, the capitol of Ouswa, killing himself and over six million with him.
Fortunately, Jackie's orders were never carried out as the remaining Ouswan commanders surrendered, since Jackie had taken all of his loyal followers with him, and no one retaliated with their own nuclear arsenal. For the first few years after the Tragedy of Haphster, the TAO occupation forces, led by the superpower Montania, were praised as liberators, but the seeds of discord had already been planted, for the people were divided into two separate ideals. One was the more pacifist side, who wanted everything to return to the status quo before Jackie Harnigan had gained power, the other were the ones who wanted to carry Jackie's initial vision of a strong and powerful Ouswa, and began to believe that the occupation forces were secretly attempting to undermine the power of Ouswa.
Just four years after the Tragedy of Haphster, an armed revolt began in Ouswa, one that would plunge the TAO forces in the midst of a civil war, and suffer many casualties thanks to the underground networks in Ouswa and the effective hit and run terrorist strikes against the occupation forces, turning the initial planned five year occupation and restoration of Ouswa into a land plagued by civil war which continues to drag on.
Unfortunately, however, the written word can only reveal so much, and even more so, the history written by imperfect humans must by default, be imperfect. Even facts which are acknowledge by all on Magicka may ultimately be fallacies. Many stories of Magicka's history contains elements of both fact and fiction, and the dividing line which separates the two is very rarely identified as fact and fiction permanently become entwined into one, and the truth becomes lost and forgotten.
