World Wizard Wars

"A fog of war fell upon the magic world. Mages are not soldiers, but know well that they collected themselves as such, some dark guilds gathering together as great armies. The council had completely lost control and the world paid for it dearly, in blood."

- Historian

World Wizard Wars (世間魔法使い戦乱, Seken Mahōtsukai Senran) were a series of colossal battles between mage guilds of all kinds, cults, and factions that shook the magic world. These conflicts, also known as the Times of Trouble (苦境の時期, Kukyō no Jiki), the Age of Upheaval (変革の時代, Henkaku no Jidai), and the Magic Wars (魔法戦乱, Mahō Senran), took place between the years X880 to X883, some 120 years ago. What had started out as a conflict between seven factions would meld into one final stretch of violence considered unspeakable by today's standards between two mighty forces, one with the council and one against it. Millions died and around half of the total causalities were civilians, this event would give rise to anti-Mage sentiments in some nations and legitimize the danger of mage supremacist entities. These conflicts are considered a seminal event in the history of the continent of Ishgar and the primary impetus to the ongoing era of general peace that followed.

Trivia

 * These wars are to the Earthland of ARISE and Chronicles of a Mage what the world wars are to our own world.