After the Great Calamity, the world was torn apart. Continents shattered, breaking into countless islands adrift upon the seas. What once was whole became scattered fragments of history and ruin.
Civilization itself was forced to kneel.
Humanity was forced to change.
The weak were no longer left behind... They were simply erased.
This was the birth of the New Era. An era where survival was no longer a struggle for meaning, but the only meaning left.
In such a world, the idea of learning became a luxury. Before the Great Calamity, magic academies had been common, grand institutions where young minds honed spells, swordplay, and theory as though the future were endless. But after the world's collapse, the concept of an academy became nearly extinct.
There were two simple reasons:
First, Survival left no time for study. When the world itself demanded you kill or be killed for a piece of bread, who could afford to sit in a classroom?
