Glitch, The

About 90 years ago, all of the magic in the world seemed to glitch out for about four minutes. Intense investigation of this phenomenon has implied that the glitch may have moved from the elven empire in the east across the human lands and then off to the west. There does not seem to be any indication that the “anti-magic wave” struck the orcish continent.

This is important because all magic glitched out, sort of like a global black out. Rumors of what happened during the anti-magic wave are enormous. There are rumors of elven flying fortresses crashing to the ground. There are even rumors of dragons falling out of the sky. This one is of great interest to the magical universities because it might answer an age-old question about whether dragons can really fly or if they are somehow using magical spells.

In any case, fear of another of these glitches keeps people from crafting some of the highest fantasy tech. No one will dare build a flying fortress or even flying galley if the thing could come crashing out of the sky without warning. Without question, there are numerous theories and rumors about how or why it happened. After the passing of so many years, there are even rumors of if it happened. Several generations have gone by without another incident, but some of the history books seem to imply it happened before this one.

Some of the humans and trolls are ready to start risking these issues again, but the elves are not. Does this mean that the elves have better records and know for a fact that it did happen? Perhaps it does. There does not seem to be another reason that the elves would allow the other races to move past them in any style of magic, so there must be a reason that they are not experimenting with these possibilities.