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In January of 2010, what was supposed to be a New Year’s Eve to celebrate a new era quickly turned into a nightmare with supernatural creatures attacking anyone they saw, demons and angels reluctantly teaming up, and people being driven to madness at the sight of eldritch monsters. All of this was a part of Prospero’s plan to break the masquerade down and have humanity pay for their past sins.

Nations all over the world were devastated by the widespread attacks that Prospero and his allies launched, as horrors and fantasies of all types began to ravage Earth. Humanity tried to fight back as much as they could against them while their planet began to drown in their nightmares.

In North America, the various regions of the United States of America began to suffer the attacks of various monsters alike. The New England region slowly transformed into an eldritch nightmare as alien reef-like structures rose from the ocean’s waters, singing in subsonic tones that make sailors on the New England coast lose track of time. The Western Coast states were under attack not only by vengeful bigfoots that wished to get their revenge on humanity for their atrocities against their kind but from supernatural entities that seemed to originate from otherworldly places. The Bible Belt became an unholy spot for demons and monsters to kill and torture helpless citizens with several Gill-men rising from the swampy waters in Florida to attack any human they see on sight.

Meanwhile with Canada, Wendigos and similar beings began to roam around the wilderness of Canada, willing to possess anyone unfortunate enough to encounter them and battling each other over who gets the victim first. In Mexico, the Mexican government and drug cartels made a temporary truce with each other to deal with the swarms of restless spirits and chupacabras.

South America didn’t fare any better as it was attacked not only by mischievous and evil spirits but from those that guarded nature throughout their life with Brazil being the most affected during the Invasion. In the other South American nations the Boraro and all other sorts of creatures lurked around Colombia, seeking out potential victims. Tau and his seven children toppled Paraguay’s government as he began a reign of terror over the nation. Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia suffered a mass invasion from Supay and his demonic forces, leaving a trail of devastation in the ruler’s wake.

In Europe, a thick fog began to shroud the United Kingdom as all sorts of monsters and bogeymen prowled about in the streets of London. Scotland became a battleground between mythical creatures and those infected with the Reaver virus before the wall came crumbling down with the battle spilling over to England. The Fomorians ransacked Ireland as they laid waste to nearby towns and killed any human in sight with the monstrous Swine-Things joining in. France became terrorized by re-awakened gargoyles that were meant to protect and watch over humans, but had turned against them. Eastern Europe became flooded with vampires, both malevolent and vengeful, with Romania especially becoming a hotspot for vampires as the city of Selene in the Transylvania country became active once more. The Scandinavian region suffered a massive attack from the combined forces of Toyland from the North Pole and the re-emerging Trolls.

Africa found itself being under attack not only by animal spirits but other types of the supernatural as well. Egypt’s long-forgotten dynasties began to rise up from the dead and wage war against each other over who got to rule the nation while abandoned cities like Hamunaptra become active once more with mummies roaming about. The Kishis wrought havoc across Angola as well as massacring nearby towns and villages. Aigamuxa prowled about in the forests of South Africa, and the Kamappa rampaged across Cape Town. Yateveos began to pop up more and more in Madagascar before appearing in other nations of the continent, devouring any human they see in their sight. Adze plagued both Togo and Ghana, usually by possessing unsuspecting victims upon capturing one or sucking the blood of their victims when in their firefly form, thankfully a man by the name of Mr. Nancy helped as many as he could in Ghana and protected the helpless from the malicious spirits themselves while getting the citizens to fight back against them.

Asia was attacked by a wide variety of creatures during the Blazing Invasion. Tamama-no-Mae and her army of Yokai began an invasion of Japan with the help of various Kaiju, who’re either resurrected or brainwashed, that attacked the nation before. In China, a variety of ghosts and spirits have begun to terrorize and attack humans in the nation. The combined forces of Koschei the Deathless and Baba Yaga devastated Russia. Both North and South Korea received an infestation of various Kumiho that began to eat up any human they see by taking either their liver or their heart. A large swarm of Aswang besieged the Philippines with those trying to escape by swimming, ending up being devoured by the Bakunawa. Half of the population of Indonesia transformed into Leyaks with the other half being forced to fight back their friends, loved ones, or others that had transformed into these monstrous creatures. In the Middle East, a variety of creatures that range from giants to jinns to even demons began a large attack on the humans living in the region, forcing the Military and the Taliban to make a truce to each other to fight back against them.

Of course, this wasn’t limited to the human nations, as Prospero and his coven used every method to gain the upper hand to spread their ‘invasion’ far and wide. Across the continents, cracks started to open on the Earth’s surface that revealed themselves to be openings to the Hollow Earth, and with them came a variety of creatures from different kingdoms that started to rampage across the Earth. Even the oceans weren’t safe from the invasion as sea creatures of all types started to re-awaken themselves and devour any sailor that had the misfortune to encounter one. Time and space also started to feel…different. Passages began to feel much longer and days began to turn into months before turning into years. Ripples across history were felt and began to slowly transform the timeline into a radically different one. Just what was going on? As it turns out however this was due to the sorcerer and his coven trying to gain control over time and space to extend his invasion even further. Various time-keeping agencies started to take action over this but with each ripple they took care of a new one began to pop up every second.

In space, the solar system received itself a nasty surprise when the Prospero-supported Lamarr the First and his Lunite army launched an invasion by using a massive fleet they acquired after massacring the human colonies on the Moon. While doing this, the ‘blazing worlds’ on each and every planet revealed themselves to the humans and inhabitants living there as the planets suffered the same fate as Earth.The multiverse wasn't safe from the Blazing Invasion either, with the many Earths suffering the same fate as the main one, thanks to the efforts of Prospero’s agents who managed to hide themselves in plain sight.

Back on Earth, many of the world’s superheroes and military responded with action alongside criminal groups, supervillains, and even civilians but it wasn’t enough to beat them back as Prospero’s forces began to overwhelm them with most of them either ending up dead or driven to madness. Things were starting to look grim for the human race and Earth as well as the non-humans who shared their fate.

But all of that would change when a large glowing white light engulfed the Earth, blinding everyone for a second, until it all cleared up to reveal a woman in golden armor and a large army behind her. The woman in question was Sophie Bangs, the latest vessel of Promethea, whose task was to not only bring about the apocalypse, albeit a metaphorical one, but to also make sure that Prospero and his allies don’t succeed with their version of the apocalypse. Her army on the other hand consisted of those who were very much against the tyrannical rule over the Blazing World & desired freedom from the regime itself.

Prospero and his allies were unprepared for this; they didn’t expect someone to show up with the intent to stop his plans from coming to fruition. What also didn’t help was the mostly shaky alliance between Prospero, his coven, and the sorcerer’s allies as some of them either betrayed him to plan out their own apocalypse or turned out to be double agents for Promethea’s resistance group. What followed then was a war between two factions that fought for the fate of not only Earth, but the universe as well. During this, most of those that allied themselves with Prospero and his Coven began to doubt their allegiance as they fought with some of the resistance members and doubled the member count.

Of course however, there would be others that managed to take advantage of the situation; enter Oliver Haddo Trelawney (a.k.a ‘Karswell Trelawney’), the founder of Thelema and Academy City, who saw the raging battle as an opportunity to wipe out not only the two warring sides against each other but magic as well. With the help of SAPPHIRE and other similar groups he managed to acquire not only a huge fleet of his own that was decked out with weaponry from the militant atheist group but the so-called “Four Horsemen of the Atheist Apocalypse”, a creation of SAPPHIRE that serves as the extremist group’s weapon of mass destruction.

Trelawney’s faction would then make themselves known through the arrival of their horsemen with the occultist and his army following behind as they laid waste to the two warring factions, also assaulting various magical sites that served as either the bases for Prospero and his Coven or Promethea and her resistance, only adding more bodies to their kill count. The war continued to drag on with the arrival of Trelawney’s faction as overtime it became less of an epic war between factions and more of a devastating tragedy with bodies of both civilians and faction members alike beginning to pile up. Prospero’s messing with time and space didn’t help either as it caused people to experience much longer passages of time; Sometimes up to years, even. As such, in that single day, numerous important events took place across the globe and beyond. Such notable events that occurred are…

Battle of Tokyo: The Capital of Japan has always been a center of activity politically, economically and supernaturally, so it was clear it would be one of Prospero’s targets. Originally the mission of attacking Tokyo was supposed to fall for Yasunori Kato, an onmyōji who had been the sworn enemy of Japan for decades. But with Kato’s supposed death five years prior, Prospero had to look for a new coven member to handle Tokyo, eventually finding one in Tamano-no-Mae, a fox spirit with her own reasons for joining the Invasion. Luckily Taira no Masakado, the guardian spirit of Tokyo, had sensed the Invasion in advance and sent a call to battle. The Battle of Tokyo was one of the first to involve the use of Mysterious Beings, and saw the rise of future legends such as King. Many Veteran heroes also reappeared, most notably Takeshi Hongo, who led the Kamen Riders, who had survived the Rider War a few months ago. Many Super Sentai also took part in the battle. Ultramen and Kaijus friendly to humans, however, were kept busy by the Great Old Ones on the other side of the planet.

Battle of the Academy City: This sovereign state founded and built upon study of subjects both regular and esoteric housed many secrets, including the Horsemen of the Atheist Apocalypse, four esper-capable artificial humans created by SAPPHIRE for the purposes of erasing everything the organization deemed unfit for its vision of society and the universe. The Blazing Invasion forced the militant atheist group to unleash the Horsemen early, though their master, Karswell Trelawney, found them sufficiently powerful for his purposes. He was proven right, as the Horsemen quickly eliminated the invaders. However, the loyalty of the Four to Trelawney wasn’t guaranteed. Ironically, SAPPHIRE itself would prove small-minded for the Horsemen, seeing in them the same fanaticism as in the religions they opposed, and thus unfit to the utopia they were supposed to create. In the end the four chose to protect humanity in general, aiding Judgment and Anti-Skill in beating back the invaders and personally neutralizing Sapphire’s Academy City headquarters.

The British Fog: The League of the Extraordinary Gentlemen had been a thorn at Prospero’s side as long as he could remember. To deal with them, he decided to play it safe and sent both Maleficent and Sauron to handle the League and any other threats from British soil. The two mages opened a series of portals on the Isles straight to the Blazing World and through them came various kinds of monsters and humanoids from their respective realms. In the end, however, the League, allied with other British heroes (and even some villains) managed to beat the invaders and their forces back.

The Disappearance of France and North Korea: One minute they were being terrorized by invaders from their respective realms of the Blazing World and then the next? Both nations would be suddenly gone from the face of the Earth as if they never existed in the first place and what came after were a series of earthquakes that lead to massive cracks that act as a passageway to either the Hollow Earth or Hell. North Korea and France would later re-appear as the invasion came to a close with the passageways being sealed shut, but the effects of the disasters that the disappearances wrought about would still be felt to this day.

The Siege of Muncie: The town itself was transformed into a hellish nightmare as the residents would be endlessly tormented by the orange tabby cat which also included that of Jon Arbuckle, who used to be the owner of Garfield and was a constant target during this event. During this, he would transform into various forms each more terrifying than the last. All hope would be seemingly lost for the town were it not for the miraculous arrival of Lyman and an angelic Jon Arbuckle who not only helped out the citizens of Muncie to fight back against the eldritch cat but also fought against it where it ended with the cat perishing and Jon seemingly vanished. Lyman and the rest of the surviving citizens would be the only ones that came out of the battle alive.

The Southern California Earthquake of 2010 (a.k.a ‘The Big One’): With the San Andreas fault rupturing once more, the region itself received another earthquake only this time it would be much more devastating than the others that had occurred in the 20th century as it would claim many lives during that day with the infrastructure being destroyed. Southern California ouldn't see any more earthquakes after this until later in 2015.

The Jefferson Civil War: The state itself would be split into two sides as the vengeful ‘bigfoots’ lay waste onto the Western Coast states. One side consisted of the mostly peaceful and benevolent Sasquatches while the other side represented the more revenge-seeking Sasquatches that wanted mankind to pay for their atrocities against their kind. The former would be backed by the Lodge while the latter received help from the Fae. In the end, the benevolent side won the civil war and gained control of Jefferson.

War for the Oceans: Long-buried cities and continents waged war against each other as they rose up from the depths. Atlantis itself was in a civil war between several factions that vied for control of the continent with some of them even having Deep Ones helping them out as they were backed by Prospero and his coven. Meanwhile in Bikini Bottom, Plankton and his huge army of robots and mind-controlled jellies laid siege onto the underwater city. Luckily the extremist factions would be defeated by a coalition between Aquaman’s and Namor’s factions with Plankton and his massive army being repelled back.

Release of the Great Old Ones: Rasputin, an expert in cosmic divinities and member of Prospero’s Coven, used the distortions in time to awaken Great Old Ones sleeping on Earth ahead of schedule. While technically beyond Prospero’s control, they worked perfectly as unofficial shock troops, causing destruction and mind alteration wherever they moved. They fell back to sleep again, when time returned to normal.

The Containment Breach: Prospero didn’t rely solely on his Coven for the Invasion. Dr George Maynard, a scientist claiming to be a double agent for both SCP Foundation and Chaos Insurgency, was in fact on Prospero’s payroll. For months he looked through SCPs for potential allies and tools, and then, on the day of the Blazing Invasion, sabotaged the holding facilities, sending the Foundation into chaos. Ironically these actions would lead to Maynard’s own doom, when SCP-106 took him to his realm.

Battle of the Solar System: Outside of the Earth, Prospero had made an alliance with Lamarr the First, a Human-Lunite hybrid warlord to help each other in their mutual quest to conquer the Solar System. Lamarr’s Empire, consisting of numerous aliens with a grudge against the Earth, would take over the planets with Human bases or alliances, while the Coven focused most of its efforts on Earth. The hope was that both allies would keep the other side busy, dividing them while their mutual effort would triumph. As a cautionary measure, Prospero sent Queen Beryl as a liaison to Lamarr. The humans in space would however receive help from an unexpected source. Santa Claus, the latest scion in a long legacy of Winter Shamans and Christmas Gift-Givers, took to himself to protect the planets. With the help of an army of elven helpers and a magi-tech vessel S-1, Santa acted as the main uniter of the anti-Lamarr resistance. The true turning point, however, came from within the invaders. Beryl had grown tired of playing the puppet to other powers, and in a secret meeting with Santa, turned against the rest of the Coven. Santa introduced Beryl to Promethea, who she helped eagerly. Meanwhile, Santa’s son, Steve, would prove his skills as a commander and a strategist, when he led a counter-assault on Lamarr’s base on the Moon. Beryl, however, would not see the end of the war, sacrificing herself to save her once mortal enemy, Sailor Moon.

The Battle at the Island: One of the more notable battles in this event and one of the last. It is notable due to how it was a showdown between the three leaders of each faction and nobody else alongside it taking place in Prospero’s former island. The leaders battled each other through a wide variety of spells and even a few weapons as well. The battle would end with Promethea decapitating Trelawney by using a sword she held on to before throwing it away and landed the final blow onto Prospero with her Caduceus, securing a victory for her and ending the battle.

With the final defeat of the two wizards at the island, it was clear that the resistance group had won the battle through sheer persistence despite the losses of their comrades. The main timeline and the multiverse have been restored with Lamarr’s plans of conquest over the Solar System thwarted.

While it technically lasted only a single day, as the world begins to recover from the Blazing Invasion the effects of it will be felt in the coming years…

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slowly transformed into an eldritch nightmare as alien reef-like structures rise from the ocean’s waters, singing in subsonic tones that make sailors on the New England coast lose track of time - Reference to The Shadow Over Innsmouth.

supernatural entities that seemed to originate from otherworldly places - Refers to the entities from the fictitious Black and White Lodges from Twin Peaks.

Gill-men - The aquatic species from the Creature from the Black Lagoon films.

Wendigos and other similar beings - The malicious spirit from Algonquian myths and its various depictions from works of fiction.

restless spirits and chupacabras - The former refers to the spirits present in Mexican myth while the latter refers to the Chupacabra and its fictional depictions.

mischievous and evil spirits but from those that guarded nature throughout their life - The former refers to the Anhwang from Brazilian mythology and the latter refers to the guardian spirits present in Brazilian myths like the Curupira for example.

the Boraro - Monstrous creatures from Colombian folklore.

Tau and his seven children - The evil spirit and his children from the Tapu-Guarani myths.

Supay and his demonic forces - The god of death and ruler of Uku Pacha from Incan mythology with the demonic forces referring to the demonic race also named Supay from the Incan myths.

those infected with the Reaver virus - The zombies from the 2008 Doomsday film.

The Fomorians - A race of monsters from Irish mythology.

Swine-Things - Pig-like entities from The House on the Borderland.

city of Selene - The vampire-filled city from City of Vampires (1875)

Toyland - The Olympia and Frankenstein’s Monster-ruled city populated with toys and different versions of Frankenstein’s Monster.

Hamunaptra - The ancient lost Egyptian city from the 1999 remake of The Mummy.

Kishi - A creature that has many heads from the Ambudu people’s folklore in Angola.

Aigamuxa - Man-eating creatures from the folklore of the Khoikhoi people of South Africa.

Kamappa - A gluttonous creature that devours anything in its path from the Basotho people’s folklore.

Yateveos - Man-eating trees from J.W Buel’s Sea and Land. They’re fused with the man-eating Madagascar plant from Edmund Spencer’s article on New York World and the Vampire Vine from William Thomas Stead’s article on the Lucifer magazine.

Adze - Vampire-like beings from Ewe folklore.

a man by the name of Mr. Nancy - Anansi in his human form from both American Gods and Anansi Boys. It also foreshadows that not everyone is sided with Prospero’s coven.

Tamama-no-mae - A malicious fox spirit from Japanese mythology that appeared in Otogizoshi. Serves as a stand-in for Fujiwara no Nariko here.

variety of ghosts and spirits - refers to the number of spirits present in Chinese mythology.

Koschei the Deathless and Baba Yaga - Antagonists from Russian and Slavic folklore.

Kumihos - Fox spirits from Korean myths.

Aswang - Shape-shifting creatures from Filipino folklore.

Bakunawa - A serpent that is responsible for earthquakes, eclipses, rain, and wind in Philippine mythology.

Leyaks - Those that have been transformed into creatures that prey upon pregnant women from Indonesian mythology.

giants to jinn to even demons - The first refers to the Nephilim, the second is an obvious one and the third & last one refers to the demons present in Islam.

Various time-keeping agencies - Basically agencies that protect the timeline like the TVA from Marvel Comics and the Time Enforcement Commission from Timecop for example.

Sophie Bangs, the latest vessel of Promethea - Both from the titular comic book series by Alan Moore.

Oliver Haddo Trelawney (a.k.a ‘Karswell Trelawney’) - The first name comes from William Maugham’s The Magician while the last name comes from A Dance to the Music of Time. The name Karswell comes from the character of the same name who bought the Lufford Abbey from Casting the Runes.

Thelema - The religion that Crowley founded in our world and our Crowley analogue does in this universe.

Academy City - The city-state in Tokyo from A Certain Magical Index.

SAPPHIRE - The atheist militant GOI from the SCP Foundation website.

So-called “Four Horsemen of the Atheist Apocalypse” - From the deconstructive Subnormality webcomic.

Yasunori Kato - The villain protagonist in the Teito Monogari series.

Taira no Masakado - A provincial magnate and legendary samurai who has been immortalized as a demigod in later years.

Mysterious Beings - Monsters of all types that appear in One Punch Man.

Takeshi Hongo - The first ever Kamen Rider from the titular franchise of the same name.

Rider War - Refers to the event seen in Kamen Rider Decade.

Ultramen - Those that have taken the title of Ultraman before.

Maleficent and Sauron - The former is from Sleeping Beauty and the latter is from the Tolkienverse.

The Disappearance of France and North Korea are basically references to SCP-7779 and the Broken Masquerade canon.

The Siege of Muncie is one big Gorefield reference.

The Southern California Earthquake is basically a combination of the Big One that devastated San Francisco from Marshal Law and the super-quake that destroyed southern California from Demolition Man.

Jefferson is a proposed state that never went through but was materialized in this universe and is more like the one seen in Harry Turtledove’s State of Jefferson stories.

backed by the Lodge - A secret government organization from Alex Grecian’s Proof.

The battle at Bikini Bottom in the War of the Oceans event is basically sorta like this universe’s equivalent to the 2004 Spongebob Squarepants movie and Around the Clock at Bikini Bottom if that makes any sense.

Rasputin acts mostly like the Hellboy version, but has elements of other adaptations that portray him in a sympathetic light so that he’s not pure evil here. That doesn’t make him fully innocent however.

The Containment Breach event is basically a reference to what happens in SCP: Containment Breach.

Lamarr the First - An Human-lunite hybrid that took over the Solar System in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Tempest. Here however, he doesn’t.

Queen Beryl - The main antagonist and the commander of the Dark Kingdom in Sailor Moon.

Santa Claus, the latest scion in a long legacy of Winter Shamans and Christmas Gift-Givers - Ol’ jolly Nick himself, or rather the current person that has taken the title of Santa Claus.
magi-tech vessel S-1 - The giant ship from Arthur Christmas.

Steve Claus - The son of Santa Claus from Arthur Christmas.

The island that was mentioned in the Battle at the Island is the one from Lost and is also fused with a few other islands in this universe like Ship-Trap island from The Most Dangerous Game and the island from Lord of the Flies for example.

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The Blazing Invasion left a massive impact on Earth, and the universe at large. Even as the world began to heal in the following years, its effects could still be felt. Among the changes that the invasion caused were the following:

-With the Invasion beaten back in a day, Prospero only managed to release a handful of his prepared arsenal. For years to come, the Coven’s unused weapons and soldiers would cause trouble on Earth, from Mysterious Beings attacking Japan in a steady stream, to the Holiday King of Saturnalia (later SCP-2845) landing a year after Prospero’s defeat.

-Supernatural events both harmless and harmful became more common on Earth in the aftermath of the Blazing Invasion. Some pockets of fog still remained in the United Kingdom while in Romania rains of blood began to occur during full moons in Selene.

-Thanks to their actions against Prospero and his forces as well as helping in rebuilding the world, Superheroes were now more important than ever leading to the foundation of groups like the World Heroes Association and the Hero Public Safety Commission as a way to help heroes out with organizations like Batman Inc. and Hero Factory beginning to focus more on efforts to fight all types of villainy around the world as new threats began to emerge in the aftermath. Superheroes also started to become involved with other corporations that aren’t Veidt International Consolidated with most of them becoming sponsors for them.
-Speaking of Veidt International Consolidated, while Veidt Enterprises had purchased American Consolidated, its interest in superhero business in the newly named corporation hadn’t gone anywhere. Concluding that human nature was the real hindrance in creating proper heroes, the company decided to create specifically non-human supes. This, combined with the populace's increased interest in fantasy and outer space, led to the creation of the Starfleet Magic franchise. The official story was that the Space Ponies, led by their Grand Ruler, had come from their home planet of Unicornucopia to aid humanity in their plight and protect them from outside threats. In reality they were Moreau sapiens made by combining human and Equestrian DNA, with their fights for the most part staged. Their creation would be aided by WorryFree, a megacorporation that sought to create workers that’re more obedient to them and would later take notes on this to make their own horse-human hybrids though this would backfire horribly.

-Numerous people from Earth's past were left stranded in the 21st century due to the Coven’s manipulation of time and space. These people, known collectively as Historicals, tried their best to adapt to living in the modern world, with varied success. While most Historicals lived in the United Kingdom, there were others across the planet, most notably the reincarnated Zhuge Liang in Japan. There are even claims that Hynkel and Napaloni appeared in modern Germany and Italy, respectively, though most, like with Zhuge Liang, concluded them to be enthusiastic cosplayers. These two figures would later gain immense popularity with the far-right crowds in their respective countries. They would never obtain political office themselves, but would back politicians and parties that aligned with their views.

-Natural disasters have become mostly frequent throughout the 2010s in the aftermath of the Blazing Invasion, devastating the ecosystems and worsening the Earth’s climate. These would range from ordinary disasters to more bizarre ones. To solve this, humanity would use remnants of an Isu-created ancient terraforming device to create the Dutch Boy, a system of climate-control satellites that could manipulate Earth’s weather as a way to hopefully ease the constant natural disasters that plagued the planet.
-There would also be a rise in eco-heroism in the 2010s and the 2020s as a way to defend and repair Earth’s ecosystems while dealing with villains taking advantage of the current environmental situation. Examples of notable eco-heroes include the Wild Kratts, the Petronix Defenders, and the Meteoheroes.

-Bad actors would seep through the cracks as they saw the situation of Earth in the aftermath of the Blazing Invasion an opportunity to seize on. These would range from terrorist organizations and criminals to intergalactic threats from outer space.
-One of the more notable of these threats were the “Masters”, who saw the situation of Earth in the 2020s as an opportunity to invade due to some of the problematic aftereffects plaguing the planet, albeit much more subtly. After taking over the Dutch Boy they began to form a shadow government and kept Earth as a hostage to have all the food they wanted, specifically Soylent. However their secret reign wouldn’t last forever as it would be eventually found out and would later be defeated.

-Many of the world’s supernatural communities began to integrate with the rest of society in the aftermath of the Blazing Invasion thanks to both the efforts of the nation’s governments and their human allies. Due to the Wizarding World slowly becoming more integrated with the rest of society, magic would become increasingly more common.
-As magic became common, it was widely adapted into technology, creating machines that would very much defy the laws of physics, done partly out of fear that use of mundane or “black” technology could attract the entity that was responsible for the Y2K crisis of 1999.
-Magic eventually returned to its zenith of power in 2012 following several near-apocalypses, causing a number of changes to earth including but not limited to: Unexplained Genetic Expression that transformed humans into various magical species, the reawakening of the grand dragons, several Kaijus mutating to Titan class, the weakening of Earth’s dimensional walls, and a rise in the numbers of both awakened magic users and metahumans.

-With the end of the masquerade, and especially after 2012, countless non-human species and their hybrid offspring came out of hiding, quickly incorporating into the society. Curiously, female hybrids have always had a higher chance of showing their non-human ancestry, leading to the nickname “monster girls”. However “monster boys” also exist, and although rarer, their non-human ancestry tends to appear stronger. The Social Services Division of the Department of Integration, a sub-set of the U.S Department of Homeland Security, was founded to facilitate the integration of these supernatural communities into American society. Meanwhile in Japan, the Interspecies Cultural Exchange Act was set up to encourage cultural exchange between both humans and non-humans.
-In the post-masquerade age, new technologies became available to the public, changing not only everyday life, but culture and sports.
-Formula cars became ever faster, transforming into different modes based on the terrain and requiring AI computers as assistant drivers.
-The implementation of the Rescue Racer escape pods into the racecars allowed NASCAR Tracks to become ever more death defying, along with developing a Pro Wrestling style Kayfabe among the drivers and teams.
-Mithril, a protective clothing of silk softness capable of absorbing both penetration and impact, not only made it safer for cheerleaders to perform their acrobatics, but gave birth to Battle Skating, a figure skating-inspired combat sport popular among the Moreaus, and Keijo, a Portuguese women’s combat sport where all strikes are done by breasts and buttocks.

-The world began to feel more futuristic in terms of architectural design as well as technology, thanks to various reconstruction efforts by superheroes, super-geniuses, and even megacorporations that helped speed up the reconstruction process. Due to these projects taking inspiration from past depictions of the future, these new builds took on a more retrofuturistic “zeerust” aesthetic.
Schools that focused heavily on extraordinary talent would receive massive funding in the aftermath of the Blazing Invasion, ranging from schools that teach all forms of magic to schools that focus on superheroics. Other schools that fit in this category and received major funding included Hope’s Peak Academy, the Psychokinesis Learning Academy for New and Exciting Tactical Studies and much more on Earth. Funding would also be directed towards similar schools in the realms of the Blazing World like the School for Good and Evil and the Easton Magic Academy for example.
-Hope’s Peak Academy would be one of the more notable ones due to their study of Ultimates, teenagers who were in the best of their fields, no matter how peculiar they are (something people have noted made them quite similar to costumed adventurers). Many other schools, both in Japan and overseas, began searching and training Ultimates of their own. Unfortunately, the academy would later be compromised in the coming decades to follow.

-The war economy would be born around the aftermath of the Blazing Invasion as war became more of a business rather than a series of conflicts, with private military companies and contractors like World Marshal Inc and Rize or Die being part of this new economic paradigm.

-While Prospero and his Coven are gone, there are still people who want to use their spellbooks and the like for nefarious needs. Recently, the SCP Foundation and other anomaly-containing organizations are tracking down the Prospero Codieces, a collection of spellbooks once owned by the sorcerer himself, and want to make sure they’re locked up for good once they’re found.

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Mysterious Beings attacking Japan in a steady steam - Non-human threats from One Punch Man.

Holiday King of Saturnalia (later SCP-2845) landing a year after its defeat - Refers to what happened in Addenum-01 in the SCP-2845 article.

rains of blood began to occur during full moons in Selene - While the event itself is original, Selene is from Paul Feval’s City of Vampires.

World Heroes Association and the Hero Public Safety Commission - Both are from My Hero Academia, but the former is fused with the Hero Association from One Punch Man here.

Batman Inc. and Hero Factory - The former is from DC Comics, specifically from Grant Morrison’s run of Batman, and the latter is from the Lego toy line of the same name.

Superheroes also started to become involved with other corporations that aren’t Vedit International Consolidated with most of them becoming sponsors for them - A reference to Tiger and Bunny having superheroes being sponsors for corporations.

Starfleet Magic franchise - The in-universe franchise featuring the Space Ponies from the infamous My Brave Pony: Starfleet is Magic fanfic by Darkrai-King Mykan. Here, they’re created with Moreau sapien DNA here rather than being actual aliens.

WorryFree - The megacorporation from Sorry To Bother You that sought to create human-horse hybrids in order to create more obedient workers for the megacorp which of course did not turn out well for them.

These people, known collectively as Historicals, tried their best to adapt to living in the modern world, with varied success - Reference to the 2009 Horrible Histories series.

most notably the reincarnated Zhuge Liang - Refers to the main protagonist of Ya Boy Kongming who is the reincarnation of Zhuge Liang.

There are even claims Hynkel and Napaloni appeared in Germany and Italy, respectively - While Hynkel and Napaloni are from The Great Dictator, them appearing in their respective nations references to Look Who’s Back and I’m Back where it has Hitler and Mussolini being brought back to their own nations in the modern day.

Humanity would use remnants of an Isu-created ancient terraforming device to create the Dutch Boy - The Isu are from the Assassin’s Creed franchise but the device they made refers to the one that ARCAM used in Spriggan where its remnants are used to create the Dutch Boy, a system of climate control satellites from Geostorm.

more bizarre ones - intended to be a reference to the Sharknado film series.
Notable examples include the Wild Kratts, the Petronix Defenders, and the Meteoheroes - Eco-heroes from the TV shows of the same name.

One of the more notable of these threats were the “Masters” - Alien species from Starving Anonymous.

Soylent - Refers to the fictitious Soylent Green and the other Soylents from the 1973 Soylent Green film.

the entity that was responsible for the Y2K crisis of 1999 - The former refers to the Universal Will, who was responsible for the Dawn of Revival in the Guilty Gear series, and the latter refers to what happens in the 2024 Y2K movie.

Magic eventually returned to its zenith of power in 2012 - Refers to the event that occurred on December 21st, 2012 in Shadowrun.

Unexplained Genetic Expression, the reawakening of grand dragons - Also from Shadowrun.

the weakening of Earth’s dimensional walls - Refers to, but not limited to:

-Outbreak Company
-Chained Soldier (Portals to Mato opening up everywhere in Japan)
-Amphibia (The Calamity Box)
-Pacific Rim (The Ring of Fire rift)

The Social Services Division of the Department of Integration - A fictional sub-set of the Department of Homeland Security from Ugly Americans.

Interspecies Cultural Exchange Act - Fictional government bill from Monster Musume.

The new technology section contains references to the following:

-Future GPX Cyber Formula
-NASCAR Racers
-Blades of Furry
-Keijo

Mithril - Metal element found in Tolkien’s works on Middle-earth.

Hope’s Peak Academy - Fictitious high school from the Danganronpa franchise.

the Psychokinesis Learning Academy for New and Exciting Tactical Studies - The school for psychics from (P)lanets - the life of normalcy has ended.

School for Good and Evil - The titular school from the book series of the same name..

Easton Magic Academy - The magical school from Mashle: Magic and Muscles.

World Marshal Inc. - Private military company from Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.

Rize or Die - The military contractor company that Tyler Durden is the head of from Fight Club 2.