Magic had been used in war before, so had magical creatures.
The Great War, known in some parts afterwards as the First World War, saw things occurring on a level that had never been seen before. There were few countries that managed to remain neutral as the alliances and networks formed between nations brought them all into the conflict.
Japan was merely one of the vassal states of China in 1891. In 1893, with British and American forces providing supplies and what assistance they could, the native forces rose up in opposition.
The Japanese forces thanked Calbraith Perry Rodgers, their main American contact, but they felt that they had to free their own homeland. The airman agreed, but continued to manage supply runs and as a liason between various outside forces.
Japanese dragons fought Chinese dragons over the sea of Japan, but it was a losing proposition. The Chinese dragons were bigger, stronger, and had much more powerful attacks.
The Japanese, on the other hand, had developed miko and onmyoji.
Magitech was used, refined, and developed further. Dragons and various MT aircraft battled in the skies. Artillery using alchemic shells as well as less magical weapons rained destruction from afar.
A revolution within China itself proved to be the eventual downfall of that country. There were those amongst the Chinese who viewed the human experimentation of creating monster-soldiers to be abhorrent enough to break with their government.
In 1899, just a month before another century would begin, the Great War ended. Small skirmishes continued in many areas, but the Treaty Of Kanagawa was the official end of the war.
It saw the establishment of East and West China. Japan was its own land again, and vowed never to turn its back on the rest of the world again. Russia was embroiled in political revolution. Europe's maps had changed as well.
Germany had developed and fielded the first Golem-soldiers in 1895. Italy had developed the first modern chemical weapons. Several countries had further bred and developed their own breeds of dragons and other flight mounts though these were falling into disfavor due to the efficiency of aircraft that had been refined since the Franklin Flier.
The Twentieth Century began with the continued aftermath of the Great War.
It wasn't until 1929, a mere 30 years later, that the Second Great War began. As it happened, it began with:
(Posted Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:54)
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