Chapter 1

The Aquarians burst into their power overnight. One day there were no teenage magic users, the next day, every young man and young woman on earth born within two weeks of each other fifteen years ago was a sorcerous one. As teenagers, some of them of course ‘acted out’ in their new found powers.

Since no one could contain them, it is a good thing they self-organized, self-policed, and decided as a group to not go completely to the dark side. They even had to banish a few intractable miscreants into the sun, although it took the will and intent of most of them at once to do it. You have to stay popular enough to not be banished from Island Earth. Over 86% dislikes was enough to get her done.

In the meantime while that was shaking out, the world was a very confusing place for awhile. Quantum magicians can do whatever they can imagine, sort of like the byproducts of a probability drive. They didn’t for the most part have nuanced control, so most ended up at ‘Personality Default’ with powers and appearances based off of their inner selves.

I don’t quite know how as many people kept their sanity as did, especially among the Aquarians.

One good thing was that people could go about their day to day lives mostly unaffected, since the Aquarians had a bad reaction to the Sun. Aside from warping the local reality matrix, they were either super strong, or reality acted as if they were. I guess it doesn’t make any difference which except to some scientific dweeb.

And no, the perverts and rapists (what else do you call warping reality to have sex with someone who wouldn’t ever reallsy do you, who was already in a committed monogamous relationship?) were not sent on a solar slay ride; just the ones who went all Godzilla and Jehovah. It was a sort of Feudal Barony, the Aquarians took territory, and at night, things got weird out there.

The death toll never got above single digits.

There were the accords, by which most Aquarians would abide, allowing free travel for the muddies, (not that they could do much about daylight migrations, ) a derogatory term derived from ‘mundanes’, so the demesne of the least crazy Aquarians were the most popular, while the more crazy Aquarians tended to gather a population of muddies with a similar bent. Think cray-cray Queen of the Fay and her murderous filed toothed anorexic muddie minions.

Think Brawn the Muscle-god and his fake-titted adoring bimbos.

Think Kenshogi-san with his over sized sword and fatal temper. (not one of the more popular demesne)

Think a continual orgy, constant blood-sport, excesses of every kind, those were the worst but they still had plenty of customers. Now for the better, more popular sort of demesne.

Think Oz. Think Narnia. Think Eden. Think Adventure Quest. Think Tropical Paradise Nudist Resort with out the tanning, At least for the Aquarian. Pervert. Kind of a reverse ‘The Emperor has no clothes!’ With great powers come nice opportunities.

The animal Aquarians didn’t fare so well, a whole two week generation of newly fledged magic users were slain by the hostile rays of the Sun, both Elephants. The Higher reasoning sea mammals had better luck, about half survived, enough to make the cartographers revise the maps with areas marked “Unknown, here be Monsters” again.