Children of Mu.

The 1700s came to a end with a bang, in the spring of 1790 Mu, the lost
continent, returned a mystery for the ages, brimming with a uiet fury, who would ta!e in
any boat that approached, but from her enigmatic grasp none escaped. "ope for
communication # year later when a small ship of strange design and bearing strange
mar!ings appeared on the shores of $taly, The %rince with the Turuoise "ead, had
landed and thus a new world began, for the first of Mus wayward children had come to
the world of men and corruption surged forth.. &e't was The (aint of %arasites and her
crusade of peace and prosperity for those who would accept The )orm. *inally came
%estilence and his self appointed scourge across the east, until those who embraced the
twisting natures and had become +ampyre of legends halted its ad,ance, they uic!ly
disco,ered that their newfound strength was not caused by new forces from Mu but from
ancient forces in the land, soon many nations found that their lore was useable again, and
many of the old way were the only way to sur,i,e. The Metamorphosis had -ust begun,
for else where the main body of Mu had begun to mo,e forward, and ta!e the land they
could and so the .mericas fell lea,ing only coastal colonies who despite a lac! of any
support from tradition or allies they sooner learned to fight this new enemy in such a way
that their homes were safe, but to the north a different %henomenon occurred with certain
traditions still ali,e a cold co,ered the land /ea,ing the in,aders fro0en in their ,ery
trac!s. 1y the middle of the 1200s the lines of stalemate had been drawn and countries
were formed plots and intrigues turned inwards, so is our world formed, so are our lifes
determined.

The Mu Conglomerate and its wayward child;
The Mighty Mu Conglomerate had been strong in isolation but when returned to
the world things began to go awry, although those around us appeared to be -ust li!e us,
we soon disco,ered that although are technologies mutated them and caused all the
growths to integrate them into normal society, but left the mind entirely blan! and
bro!en, although they could still be used as beasts of burden and ,ehicles but only after
much training3 it is from these e'periments that the hi,e mind was born, a being which
could tap into and become one with these lesser forms, it soon learned of its own limits
and in order to control the growing numbers, it began to create lesser ,ersions of itself to
tend to the micromanagement while it was free to see and control the picture as a whole.
Thus began the wars of Mu, e'pansion was necessary for both the "i,e mind and the
singularity, the gaining of territory for both resources and test sub-ects, such harsh
resistance was not e'pected, nor were so many of the rogue elements e'pected to be
found in such power as they were, the cult of the worm, the bro!en prince and the dead
wind had all ta!en much land and had caused the rest of the world to be ready to fight all
things that came from the conglomerate. 4nce again the ,iolence turned inward again this
time a cold war burst forth both finding mutations to counter the others turning entirely
inward to neglect the world at large, thought should either gain the upper hand, no stretch
of land could be safe again.
The other three children;
The fallen prince was the first to lea,e the conglomerate seeing a whole new
world to find followers in, where once again he could be seen as the royalty he deser,es,
despite ne,er ha,ing a following these delusions dro,e him to madness, and in his
madness a contagion was born that made the flesh unra,el li!e the mind of its father, but
lea,es the mind nearly untouched only altered in the inability to feel pain, and fanatic
lo,e of The %rince with the Turuoise "ead, causing them to act, his word forced them
forward li!e gra,ity forces a stone to the ground. )hen he arri,ed in $taly he was
ele,ated at first because of his strangeness and for the curiosity surrounding Mu but by
the time he could tell the people in 5nglish his plague had begun, men and women wore
their s!ins li!e the robes the %rince wore, and with time the whole peninsula was his to
command, but the countries to the north rebu!ed his armies and fought them bac! and
!ept the plagues from spreading by using what e,er they could and ne,er letting any one
stay near the front lines for a e'tended period of time, and soon an une'pected ally came
forth se,eral small ,illages had found certain herbs could protect them from the plague,
but they could do little to protect themsel,es from the carriers e'cept fight and find areas
where they could li,e behind walls in a constant state of siege although their assailants
do little besides hammer their fist against the walls and doors, although they ha,e little
but swords, !nifes, a'es and spears, filled with a strange they ha,e held their land. .nd as
a final act of defiance to the world, The %rince )ith The Turuoise "ead mo,ed his base
of operations to the +atican ma!ing it his home, and e,en declared himself pope, placing
the pontiff miter upon the turuoise mas! he wears.
The Cult of the )orm was created when a rogue scientist created a parasite to
comfort the dying filling them with a greater purpose, and a feeling of peace. (uch a
dream was not to last, for this parasite learned from each host and soon connected to
itself psychically across the distances, and thus its first a,atar came forward a dying
young girl who spo!e of its glory and greatness, but when she should ha,e died it !ept
her and her body ali,e soon she became the (aint of %arasites, the ,ery essence of the
worm growing in and around her. &oting portents of the coming ,iolence The )orm and
its followers left fleeing to .ustralia where the message of peace acceptance lo,e, and
community were accepted if you only let the worm into your soul, spread amongst the
people until the ,ery land was infested, and all was one, with no need to lea,e or enter
into the affairs of the world should the world not enter into its affairs.
The dead wind was the last to lea,e the conglomerate and the first use the myths
of their new home to describe themsel,es, %estilence rode from the east, so ,irulent and
efficient that no doctor had hope nor man could resist, a li,ing death the flesh slowly rots,
by the time 6ussia was reached nothing but his chosen disciples sur,i,ed though they had
the appearance of death and madness li!e any other afflicted their li,es were prolonged to
spread the message and crush those that would stand in their way, defenders of any sort,
especially infected doctors who in their desperation found any and all types of military
euipment and brought fire and the blade in order to hold the borders of pestilence, but it
is not those but it was not those who twisted the "ippocratic oath that contained the
pestilence wastes but the return of strange and dar! forces.
Surviving Lore;
7eep in what was once 6ussia an encla,e of sur,i,ors that had managed to resist
the taint of disease, the last 6omano, li,ed his tattered regalia as his only wealth, but he
led those he could find, for what good is a !ing without people8 4ne day came a strange
man came to their camp from the wastes alone and unguarded he carried only a thic!
hea,ily bound boo!, from his robes remo,ed a single scroll, and swiftly found his way to
$,an 6omano, promising him and those who would follow them safety, if would -ust
pic! a place to call home, and with a single motion he stuc! his finger on the map, and
&ew 9ie, was born, this wor!er of dar! deeds ga,e to the this people a home, and guards
1: souls so twisted and wic!ed bound to their bodies beyond death loosed to protect the
perimeter of &ew 9ie, which they did in their dar! glee. The mar! of control of these the
damned is the 6omano, seal and blood line and should it be bro!en &ew 9ie, would be
once again no more, and there is no telling what would happen to the rest of the world
beyond.
.cross the wastes to the west a group of nobles had gathered together to form one
last stand against %estilence gathering all the people they could to safety, when the had all
gathered into one castle, a man had come forward -ust as the meeting was going to begin,
a man appeared carrying the same ominous tome that had formed &ew 9ie,, he produced
a goblet, and promised them the strength to protect their people but they would lose their
humanity, they could become the protectors of their lands and people if they ga,e into a
dar! force the blood of the ,ery people they protect would become their sustenance they
accepted for in their eyes no price was too great, and thus the ,ampyr were born the
lands di,ided into counties and a treatise written in the blood of the stranger upon
parchment made from his flesh that ne,er again would they feed with such rec!less
abandon, and their first loyalty is to their people and second to themsel,es, a breach of
this contract would result in the immediate death caused by the compatriots, it was their
inhuman strength and incorruptible flesh that !ept %estilence at bay, and the blood of
their people that !eeps the beast within.
The deserts of the middle east would ha,e had nothing to fear for their ,ast
e'panses of barren heated waste, but these hid the ma!ings a of a new nation using old
technology and e,en older powers as the golems rose again, men and giants made from
clay, and fueled by faith, heeding only the words of the 6abbis a techno;theocracy
uic!ly rose from the sands to form the mighty .rabic $srael. (hould they ha,e not
banded together, one of two things would ha,e happened a few people would ha,e had
great power but with time they would ha,e been too few to maintain it, and the other a
number of people with no power, without one or the other things would ha,e bro!en
down, the ceramics of the golems shattered, their energies lost, and the scripts containing
the ways of building lost. $nstead a mighty nation was born, and a ,engeful war torn area
was unified, ready to repel any that thought of trying to ta!e its secrets.
$ndia had little hope of repelling the in,aders of pestilence, so they started to pray,
when small gods began to fight along side them, these de,a of nature and of war
protected and aided the men, so long as they !ept to the lands of $ndia, enriching the li,es
of any they could har,ests were bumper crops and children grew healthy, prosperity
reigned e,en when the later forces from Mu came forward, the new strength of these e,er
present benefactors !ept them from e,er setting foot on $ndias fertile soil only recently
ha,e group of citi0ens begun top lea,e safety with food and supplies for countries who
ha,e been hit harder, it is no wonder that $ndia has been entitled <the e,er;flowing
Cornucopia of the world=.
)hen the forces of Mu came rampaging through the .mericas only the farthest
north where hunters of all nationalities and tribesmen did any spirit respond the spirit of
the cold north wind came and ga,e those who would fight the ability to call it forth while
in its domain co,ering the lands ta!en with frost tearing the flesh of their enemies and
shattering the ice that they became ad,ancing in mists of snow, and lea,ing with them,
fighting bac! using bows, !nifes, and antiue fire arms winning their land despite the
insurmountable odds. Though they li,e in a massi,e and barren land these tribes remain
di,ided and would die rather than lose what little they ha,e.
The strange case of England;
(hortly after Mu appeared a stone and parchment were found in Cambridge the
stone a perfect sphere co,ered in strange ruins and a corresponding /atin alphabet, the
parchment were later translated to be a contract drawing up the lines of cities and the
wilds and that so long as these were respected both would prosper and none would be
able to sully .lbions green soil, scholars debated whether or not this was a -o!e, until the
first emissaries of the wild came forward, "erne the hunter and his retinue to further
e'plain what the agreed to be the spirit of the law, shoc!ingly the aspect of the wild hunt
was as shrewd as any seasoned lawyer, uic!ly it was decided how things would ad,ance
and where the first druidic college would be founded to learn of the old ways, and act as
intermediaries between that which is ancient and that which is new. The cities continued
with their industrial re,olution and technological ad,ances while the old ways became
understood better, and integrated into a life of perfect coe'istence with great forest and
what seemed to be endless farmlands to feed the e,er growing masses, a standing army
was born made of beasts, the fey and men each !nowing their place and training
alongside one another with technology and magic flourishing, by the end of the 1700s
!ing parliament and the fey courts had become a single country and the first wilder city
was created called Camelot a place meant for the mingling of all things for greatest
ad,ancement.
Of men machines and cities;
>ermany was the first to not the brilliance of scientists (pain and *rance followed
in uic! suit, but only >ermany spread its territories and became an empire, using war
machines that ran on oil and burned whate,er they would firing guns bigger than men,
creating walls and trenches in days when wee!s and months would ha,e been consumed
should men ha,e been at the shoulder instead of the helm, these many legged behemoths
crawled and stridden across the land e'panding their borders but understanding the need
for trade and stability the wars stopped and soon borders and trade agreement were drawn
up, and soon after wards the (candina,ian unified front -oined them with their ad,ent of
the airship combined with >erman guns and soldiered by all nations with the help of a
single brilliant Corsican by the &ame of &apoleon 1onaparte mechanical -uggernauts
were able to repel Mu forces where e,er they appeared his tactical brilliance enabled
them to ta!e bac! all of )estern 5urope with the e'ception of $taly, although this left the
colonies in the new world completely alone. "e claimed and set for the a plan of
reclamation for $taly that began with easing whate,er humans are still ali,e into a place
of strength then mo,ing in while they struc! from within brea!ing up The %rince )ith
the Turuoise "eads forces enabling for a swift ,ictory, although he was ne,er able to
see this plan through, when he was !illed by an assassin, now !nown ,illages recei,e
support from air drops, but the moment in which would be best to stri!e was en,er fully
understood, and without a unifying force to lead them the mechani0ed nations mo,ed
bac! offering support and wor!ing once again to reestablish dominance.
The lost Children of man;
The colonies of 5uropean powers along with the newly formed Country of the
.merican Confederacy had no one to call on, for aide, their connection with anything
mystical was none'istent, and they also lac!ed the resources to build and ad,ance
technology, so they did what they could and learned to fight in -ungle plain and forest,
towns became fortresses, they soon learned that they could train certain forces of Mu and
use them for the battle other they could not, although no pattern came forward as to what
they could tame, they soon new them to be useful, but completely unpredictable as to
which side they would enter the battle on when they were used, howe,er after many years
of fighting the first of humanities boats began to come to them again this time they were
co,ered in steel instead of wood, and gun that used bullet and casing which could shoto
repeatedly before they needed to be loaded, tactics were traded for guns, and ,eterans for
ships, soon each of these colonies in the .mericas and along the coasts of .frica became
a power in of themsel,es, using whate,er they could borrow, buy or steal from other
countries resulting in motley spartan people who !new that at any moment they could be
alone and fighting for themsel,es again, best to prepare for when it comes.
$nside .frica a strange thing had happened e,ery li,ing being for miles started for
the heart of the continent without e'planation, about 10 days later a bright light flashed in
the s!y lea,ing the land dry and dead, completely ,oid of life, the ground became li!e
roc!, but it was limited to the areas not settled by 5uropean powers, to this day, no one
dares enter, and those that would cannot find anyone willing to aid in the e'penditures for
such a arduous tas!.