They called it The Rift War.

  When the veil between Earth and the Arcane World tore open above the Arctic Circle, everything changed. A swirling tear in the sky — impossible and beautiful — revealed a world of dragons, ancient magic, elven cities carved from starlight, and walking nightmares.

  In the days that followed, Earth did something it had never done before: it united.

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  China, the U.S., Russia, Europe — even warring nations paused their grudges, not out of goodwill, but fear. Satellites went dark. Magic disrupted global networks.

  On the other side of the rift, the Arcane World rallied too. Elves, dwarves, orcs, liches, and mages of unimaginable power set aside millennia of blood feuds. They saw Earth’s machines, its soulless weapons, its unholy fire — and they knew: this world was as much a threat to magic as it was to them.