The Four Worlds

History:
For the purposes of this text, we will begin our history with the famed admission of the last of the true Magi -- Magic has Reached its Limit. Everything that can be accomplished with magic is known, and no amount of understanding will progress our knowledge any further. It was so revealed that all arcane research in the 50 years before the final closure of the National Magical Academy of Valentine had been a sham to continue receiving funding from the state. The centuries that followed have been troubled -- replete with war, famine, mistrust, and segregation of society like was never seen before the Dissolution of Academia. A current trend in historical thinking breaks these centuries down into periods, though each of these eras is nuanced and each moment is as much a result of the minutes before it as it is of the years, decades, and centuries that led to it. For simplification of understanding, I will use the popular nomenclature, here briefly describing what is supposedly implied by this categorization.