>>69921075>rapid industrialization coupled with ever escalating economic and military competition between different powers led to over-exploitation of natural resources both mundane and magical. Ecofascismbros? Where's the "I told you so"?
Wait, a surprise story in the story?
>Whispers echoed in the back of his mind and incomprehensible colors twisted around him in a mad dance as he fell through the space between nowhere and everywhere>January 2022WHAET, I've never read this, this is so cool. Draft you kept in your pocket this whole time? Or I just missed it? I love that depiction of the Underworld, very cinematic, and also of the gate-traveling.
>They get a portal cat>Immediately cute it openMan Vitubia 1.6k people earned their fate.
>Vitubic body horrorThat's a must have. You're not really saving the world if you're not dooming a bunch of magic people to a horribly painful death doing it.
I enjoyed the description of the first settlers being amazed Viti is as nice as it is, really made me feel their relief.
>Massive protests erupted in each but one of the participant nations, and within a few months the protests escalated into open popular revolts.That makes it sound like you know which nation that was, do you? Or is that for flavor?