• Prologue

    Magic ruled the world. It always had. Everyone used it for daily tasks; lighting cooking fires, washing dishes, et cetera. Never once was the supremacy of this force questioned.
    Until someone, who to this day has remained unknown, invented and introduced to the mass public a new concept of using metal and electricity to do tasks magic had always taken care of in ways magic could not.
    Technology changed the world. From the moment it began to seep out into the lives of the masses, technology re-wrote the book on what could be done and how.
    Technology and Magic—a meeting that never should have occurred. But, inevitably, it did. Just as with the introduction of technology, it was never known who had first introduced magic to technology. At first, magitech was heralded as a “match made in heaven”. However, complications were quick to arise.
    The worst of these was an accident between to young witches experimenting with combining Magic and Technology to create new magitech. The experiment ended in tragedy.
    A single mistake caused an explosive discharge. Only one of the witches was caught, but both suffered. The one who was caught was physically transformed—her skin was turned green. She was locked away behind magical barriers in the castle in which the experiment had been conducted, far to the west. As time carried on, her appearance and seclusion led the locals to begin to call the “mysterious green woman” the Wicked Witch of the West.
    After a short time in imprisonment, the second witch was release with a deal to not say a word about the event in exchange for freedom—and anything else she might have wanted. Time led her to become known as Glinda, the Good Witch of the North. Meanwhile, magitech continued to be experimented with.
    However, continued reports of other ‘accidents’ occurring when magic and technology met led to an Emerald City decree outlawing all technology. Period.
    Forgotten, forsaken—those who were living evidence to the failure of magitech. However, some rise again. Some begin anew, as a being from another world falls into the lands of O.Z.—the lands of Odhra Zaman.