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Princess Helia during the battle of Lumbridge saw a slain witch, she picked up the wand and her will to desperately help her people was heard. The wand reacted to her intent and it healed a nearby dying soldier. Helia was using healing magic which was previously only possible by god-like dieties. The princess accepted the possibility that she could be branded a heretic and healed as many soldiers and commanders as she could. Princess Helia's influence in the war may very well be the reason why Lumbridge stands tall today.

Steve. Who doesn't know Steve, a great dual wielder capable of using both the bow and sword, Steve was a legendary warrior who came and left as fast as his legend had spread. Steve saved countless villages and defeated an evil Dragon. In time he existed for only two weeks and then he was gone, never to return again. Some say he will reappear when calamity strikes, others think he was killed in the wilderness. What's known is that the people of Lumbridge have taken inspiration from his skills and combines ranged weaponry together to keep monsters at bay.

It wasn't until an Expedition into an Earth dimension where humanity was wiped, that Sniper rifles and other manners of equipment were discovered. The weapons were effectively not functional as bullets were too weak to use against beasts, so archers would instead embed mana into each shot, allowing the bullets to have a way of penetrating natural armor.

It wasn't common but a new recruiter had accidentally brought four adventurers together, this little accident created a legendary party. Each adventurer together explored the world of Magika, participated with the community and defeated treacherous demons. One day the warrior Nonnlow managed to hit the maximum level 40, it was within this same week their healer HERO1BRINE1 (don't forget the numbers, he was very particular about including it into every story log, but most call him hero) had also managed to reach level 40. Edbeffer the archer was not long behind to hit 40. Huskyknight the mage was soon to follow. The four was ready, at the time subclass techonology was limited so they stayed their respective classes. Together they went into the forbidden magika dimension, within that dimension was...a monster so great it was horrifying. Edbeffer readied his dual revolvers and started firing, HERO1BRINE1 was a healer that kept his party alive and when they were healthy, he would destroy mobs instead. HuskyKnight would never let HERO1BRINE1 take all of the fun, as he summoned giant meteors, and obliterate entire waves of enemies. Nonnlow was the shield that protected the party, together they felled every foe. As the demons and monsters were slashed, shot, and disintegrated, the party stayed strong until a god-like being called polemos appeared. Some say the party stood their ground, defeated polemos and got trapped in the evil dimension, others believe they were defeated, and some think they are still fighting to this day. While none can be certain, what is true is that these four proved hope for a better future was possible. The people of Lumbridge will remember Nonnlow the warrior who regenerated health faster than he could be damaged, they will remember HERO1BRINE1 the deadly healer, HuskyKnight who summoned entire meteors, and they will remember Edbeffers sharpshooting dual wielding revolvers and shotguns. There's rumors these four will return when calamity hits.

No magic. Not even a simple spell. For decades humans couldn't conjure a single spell, the reason was simple though; we just didn't know how. Witches could, Pillagers could, but for some reason humans couldn't. That changed during the great war of Lumbridge, Princess Helia demonstrated she was able to conjure magic, so some of the injured warriors picked up staffs and wands from the ground, and tried to copy her hope but instead to cast spells. These magical tools were given to the monster army to help clear humans more efficiently because the monsters could cast spells but they were innately weak. Ironically, these tools are what gave humans the ability and understanding, which gave humans a fighting chance. Once a spell was cast, something clicked. The new mages shared information between each other, spells were shared. When the war was finally over, the academics of lumbridge interviewed the surviving mages; from there magic was finally developed for humans. The academics, some became Mages while the ones focused on the fundamentals became Sages, these two branches of magic were able to study magic thoroughly. Magic was actually everywhere and in every day life, enchanting armor and enchanting weapons was actually a form of magic that even used a users "mana", alchemy was also another form of magic, the deeper understanding of chemical reactions to create food or potions meant a better understanding of how magic was involved in these intricate decade old systems. The very understanding of physics and how the world worked, it was also a form of magic. Condensing mana into such a tightly formed weight until it collapsed on its self created gravitational pulls, or explosives that were strong projectiles for archers. Magic slowly made sense, it was in everything and everyone. Weapons were no longer seen as just materials, but instead it was well understood that each weapon and item had magical properties that could be manipulated and tapped into. Magic as a research is an ongoing effort, it's estimated that humanity has only a 4-5% understanding of magic, just as how we understand our universe. Mage's believe that focusing on Magic would help us understand the universe better, while Sage's believe that focusing on the Universe's Laws will help us understand magic better. While both hover around 4-5%, what's clear is that every innovation has pushed Lumbridge forward.

Snap danced and threw ribbons. "It's free! It's all free!!!" Snap said dancing maniacally, slapping his big red shoes up and down. Dust fell from the high stone ceiling as something heavy struck far beyond the walls. "Come on! come on, let's all dance with snap!", snap slipped on one of his shoes then started break dancing. Snap got up and made a balloon animal wrapping around one of the kids arms. Snap then made a flower balloon animal for another kid. Snap danced as hard as he could while making balloon animals, the crowd gathered around him simply watched his performance. Snap swung his head back and forth, his hat flying into the air then sommersaulting and catching it back on his head. "Tada! Wowza Wowza!!!", Snap shouted as the stone beneath his shoes trembled. Snap then spun around again "Free balloons for all, today only!!", he did a cartwheel and then fell on one of his pies, he stood up quickly, face completely covered in pie "Pietastic! Tada!", breathing hard from how hard he performed.

"Are we going to die?"

Snap froze.

Who, who said that? Snap wiped his eyes and saw it was a kid. A lump rose in his throat. Snap couldn't help but frown, though the pie at least managed to hide it.

He looked at the crowd, they were terrified, the kids looked broken, he stuttered "We-we're fine".

The kid didn't believe him.

Snap didn't either.

The Thiefs guild has existed long before the war on Lumbridge, infact it existed for as long as Lumbridge has. The Thiefs guild was made by the first Kings brother who saw the current King as ruthless. The first King Noah saw different factions were starting to build up, these factions would take over nearby settlements and then funnel the spoils of war to the main kingdom which was usually in a different country altogether. The band of Ravens was a strong militia of 20,000 men. Most militias only had around 5,000 so when a King hired the band of Ravens, it ensured the Kings victory. The Ravens needed a proper base, so Noah and the band of Ravens embarked out to sea and eventually found an island that lacked a beach. This unique formation made it easy to defend so the clan built a fortress in the center. As the Ravens took on more jobs, and brought in more wealth back to their headquarters, it soon became a proper capital. Noah declared himself King of this capital and would promote his commands to captain so more expeditions could be ran without Noahs direct supervision. The band of Ravens would take advantage of their unique location by stealing ships, it was common for ships to surrender to pirates to minimize casualties and sometimes these sailors would defect and join the band of Ravens. The non defectors were sent off with their ship if it was too small, or left with a lifeboat to wander the seas.

As the capital grew, Noah realized very early on, a proper siege would leave the capital completely vulnerable, so a castle was built at the highest point (now known as the mage's guild), this castle would be fortified to secure the clans treasure. Overtime more walls were built and the original fortress became a reserve for weapons and armor (now the warriors guild). As the wealth of the capital grew, so did the band of Ravens, it wasn't just mercenaries anymore, there was women and kids on the capital. Noah would declare the capital "Lumbridge" named after its abundance of wood. As Lumbridge grew out, Noah saw the expenses grow too. Noah would force mercenaries to work for free, and sometimes even deploy teenagers into the battlefield to help pull wounded soldiers out, and deliver weaponry and commands on the field. Noahs brother Levi saw how Noah was treating the band and his loyalty started to waver. Levi wasn't alone, there was citizens with families who were getting tired of the constant war, and seeing loved ones disappear. Levi and these citizens secretly built a base (now the thiefs guild) to organize a coup against the King of Lumbridge.

During one of the expeditions, Noah sent 5 warships to help a neighboring country take over another base that was near it. When the job was complete, out of the 50,000 men sent, only 20,000 had returned. The casualty was unforeseeable. The base the men were sent to raid was heavily fortified and one of the main countries capitals. Taking over this meant changing the countries name. It was a job that needed Noahs guidance, what's worse; the contractor who hired the band, backstabbed the band and attacked the band of Ravens. While the Ravens managed to kill off the assassination attempt, they couldn't fortify the new location since it was a hot spot for many countries to contest. The warships returned mostly empty, this was the turning point for King Noah, the people of Lumbridge, almost everyone lost a family member or friend. While the kings main army was weakened, Levi used this opportunity to turn around and stage a coup, the King had a choice, leave or die. Noah surrendered peacefully, the King along with the 20,000 men who were loyal to him left Lumbridge. The King created a new castle in a nearby isle, and would continue to defend Lumbridge from any attacks.

No one is sure if the King was just greedy, or if he had Lumbridge's best intentions in mind, but the King would continue to protect Lumbridge and bring in wealth to the main castle. Levi then created the Thiefs guild, and would regularly raid the castle, bringing wealth down to the people. The castle seemed to always be poorly guarded when Levi and his crew would sneak through, almost intentionally, but each time the guards would increase.

Noah has continued to be the king to this day, but some say Levi is the true King of Lumbridge.

Everyone is familiar with the war on Lumbridge, a giant portal appeared in the middle of town, starting the invasion. However, only the original 100 monks know that this is actually the second invasion of Lumbridge. A portal appeared within the monks tower in the middle of the dojo. The monks were already ready for a fight, when hordes of monsters started to appear. Bodies of monsters at the portal started to stack up. But not without casualties, slowly one by one the monks were felled. The dojo was sealed off by the master incase the monks were unable to beat the intruders. Seeing his students fall, the master sacrificed himself, he gave the rest of his 80 students all of his energy. The fight took several days before the monsters finally decided to close the portal.

A headcount was made, only 17 students were left. Some had broken arms or legs. Some were blinded by fire pillager attacks. All of the monks that day took such a severe beating, it looked almost as if they weren't alive at all. Those that were able to stand helped the others reach the church for emergency care. The 100 monks of Lumbridge survived the devastating 10,000 army that was placed directly in their Dojo.

After the war, 5 monks stayed at the dojo. Some of the monks retired for good, some couldn't fight anymore, but for the 5 who stayed, they became legendary monks. No one knows what happened inside the Dojo except those who survived, yet any battle hardened warrior could take a single look at these brave men and women and see just how many attacks they endured.

The portal would re-open an hour later in the middle of Lumbridge, but by then the Monks were too badly beaten to help.

Thaum was the lead treasurer when Lumbridge was the Ravens. If Noah was the brains, and Levi was the heart, then Thaum was the muscles that kept the mercernary camp afloat.

Thaum had strict rules after battle, those who didn't need to tend to wounds would gather weapons and jewelery off the battlefield to be sold to neighbouring nations or repurposed for the armory.

This alone wasn't what helped the band survive, but Thaum would setup fake buyers in neighbouring nations to purchase jewelery, drive up the price of the remaining jewelery until royalty would take notice.

Given how important prestige was for the Kings of the time to bring in new money into their kingdom, status and being able to afford the best meant royalty would often fall for Thaum's ruse, purchasing as much jewelery as possible.

This wasn't the only trick Thaum had, he also worked with the smiths of each town closely, and would re-sell the same equipment back to the smith at a heavily discounted value. This meant the smith didn't need to work as hard, and could quickly turn around new orders, since kingdoms would often be short of weapons and armor post battle.

After the war in Lumbridge, Thaum diverted his attention to a new and very real problem. The Kingdom would not have any new gold, and any resources brought in would be by the people. While it would be easy to just enslave the people and force them to work, Lumbridge was a place of progress and Thaum saw the nations limitations as a puzzle that needed to be solved.

Thaum worked out that as long as gold was flowing through citizens, and it was hard for any one person to own all gold, then commerce would continue even in the towns limited space. While new resources were brought in, that meant these resources were finite, so Thaum meticously crafted and set prices so every citizen would be able to live comfortably, yet not be able to hoard copius amounts of gold.

The system worked worked for awhile but slowly citizens would save and build wealth, as savings increased, the amount of gold circulating lessened, which drove prices down, yet the need for items didn't change, which made it even easier to save. Citizens like Matilda started to break Thaum's carefully crafted economy and it was clear something had to be done soon.

Within a short time, Lumbridge grew a large divide between the extremely poor who barely could feed themselves, and the extremely wealthy who outsourced all worked, and barely ever spend gold other than to pay their own workers. Thaum had a puzzle that would increase in complexity everytime he returned to it, every problem solved was accompanied with new problems.

Thaum realized that adventurers were the biggest contributor to the economic collapse, as they would effortlessly bring in resources, and only ever traded with other adventurers, instead of citizens creating pockets of lost gold. Thaum decided to tie adventurer wealth to property, while property was very cheap for normal citizens, adventurers had to pay premiums, this was a great way to return gold back to the people.

Thaum knows that adventurers will only pay once for property, so while the economy slowly returns back to a healthy state, he knows this is only temporary. A better solution must be made...

With that, Thaum created the Merchant class, an adventurer centric class designed with the goal of encouraging adventurers to trade and bring wealth back into Lumbridge.