Room for History

Though the Storyworld takes place in the modern day, its timeline dates back hundreds of years lining up with actual historical events throughout human history.

Almost every society in history has a "witch hunt." By European Standards, Salem is not even a large outbreak. 100,000 wore trialed during "Great Age of witch hunt by (1400-1775)" About 50,000 are executed. Cologne witch hunts ranked a number of 1626 people. In Hungary, about 800 people wore executed for witchcraft. Salem was only known to date as the largest witchcraft trial because of how well the people of Salem kept records, so it was known to us as the largest witchcraft crisis in American history. At least 182 people wore accused of witchcraft. 156 had surviving legal proceedings. 19 executed,15 pressed to death and at least 5 died in jail. Salem village wanted to form its own town and hire a minister. They had no government structure and by 1692 they wore on their 4th minister. A village was torn by spiritual and political factionalism. Two guys by the name Paul Boyer and Steven Nissenbaum wore pretty invested in the Salem trials. Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of the Witchcraft, but more accused in Andover than anywhere else! The weak government created the witch hunts. All are viewed in the Puritan "City upon a hill" as signs of spiritual decline.

With all this unexplored history around the world, we got inspired to witness and create a new world based on Salem trials and transport all eyes to a new world of magic using all the locations that had not been recorded. A world of magic.