War of the Black and White King
World in the Old Days
In times after the apocalypse Glitter God and Satan let the people choose their own rulers. They themselves still had much work to do building up the world, and still managing it every day. They also thought it would be a reasonable idea to let people manage their own lands themselves. And so, people have chosen a White King to rule over Ä+*4~ and a Black King to rule over T@Ö#Ä3. New kings would be chosen every 16 years, and for centuries kings came and went with no major issues. The White Kings would always lead Ä+*4~ to become more prosperous, creative and kind place, but T@Ö#Ä3 has always been different. The dark wastelands always invited death, weirdos and nocturnal creatures, such as moth fairies. Black Kings always tried to be accepting of everyone, and tried to make the land inviting to even those freaky and sketchy characters who found their home here.
At first people of Ä+*4~ didn’t mind this too much. All of the freaks, moth fairies, bats and other weirdos were all the way in T@Ö#Ä3, minding their own business and staying out of the way. But as T@Ö#Ä3 started growing bigger and stronger, people of Ä+*4~ started to worry. Drugs, violence, weird fetishes and strange death related and macabre things thrived under the rule of the newest Black King who fully embraced the weirdness of this place that has only been escalating for decades now.
Stories and rumors of all the things happening there reached Ä+*4~, and people here weren’t happy about what they heard. If these weird lifestyles that people in T@Ö#Ä3 lived start spreading, Ä+*4~ might become affected by the strangeness too. People of T@Ö#Ä3 seemed to settle just about everything with murded or violence, and by now just about every house there had its own corpse basement, whatever that was supposed to be. Well, the name was quite telling, and people of Ä+*4~ certainly didn’t want to follow in with the trend of keeping corpses in their houses. Someone got poisoned every other day in T@Ö#Ä3, with lack of fairies, medicine was pretty much left up to the so called “butchers” and drug traders and Satan knows what was going on in Wasteland.
Times leading up to war
With all of the weird stuff people were hearing about T@Ö#Ä3, they grew paranoid and afraid of how all of this might affect them. The White King leading the land at the time felt the same way as the people. He, and all of the White Kings before him let the Black Kings and T@Ö#Ä3 pretty much do what they wanted, but things have clearly gone out of hand now. The White King of the time was finally the one who decided to do something about it, and he believed that attacking and taking over the land of T@Ö#Ä3 was the way to go. This way the Black King would have to make way for the White king to continue to lead both lands in accordance to more wholesome values and all of the weirdos and freaks would be put into their place.
White King started building up and training an army that would soon attack T@Ö#Ä3. T@Ö#Ä3 soon caught up to what was going on, and they started building an army of their own.
The Battle
The war started on 29.7.2006, when the White King’s army attacked the Northern Castle, where the Black King lived. The castle is located high up in the rocky mountains, above the icy plains. Black King’s army was ready for the attack, waiting below the mountains. The armies fought on the icy field though neither of them seemed to make any progress. Many have died in the battle that seemed to be going nowhere. Even if the white army defeated the black army, they would still have to make their way up to the Northern Castle if they wanted to kill the Black King himself.
One of the accounts of the story says a warrior of white army managed to escape the battle below and make his way all the way up to the Black King who was looking at the battle below. Though he didn’t see the white warrior coming, he caught him and killed him in time. This was the moment in the battle where Black King first realized he might just be outwitted by the white army. This made him equal parts paranoid and enraged, causing him to order his army to not hold back and do whatever it takes to chase the white army out of his territory - no matter how many get killed on either side. The black army now attacked with full force. Being in T@Ö#Ä3, they were able to obtain more warriors and more weapons to fight, while the white army was already decimated at this point. White King ordered his army to flee the battlefield and surrender the fight.
Aftermath
After the white army left, both sides realized they lost many good warriors, but essentially haven’t solved anything. T@Ö#Ä3 was still where it was, ruled by the same Black King, Ä+*4~ was still the same, paranoid and distrustful of T@Ö#Ä3. The only ones who suffered consequences of the battle were the warriors who died and their grieving families. Instead of being mad at each other, people of T@Ö#Ä3 and Ä+*4~ were now mad at their kings for playing games with their lives over their own petty differences. The kings saw this and realized both of them are just as bad at the other and neither of them is fit to rule a country. After all, they were only foolish mortals, easily swayed by their own foolish emotions.
Glitter God and Satan saw all of this too. They saw that if they leave matters in people’s hands, they’ll go right down the same path of foolishness and destruction as the olr race of humans did. Both Black and White King gladly agreed to step down and let the gods rule the world. Glitter God took over Ä+*4~, and Satan took over T@Ö#Ä3. Both sides still follow more or less the same values as they did before the war, but today live in harmony, knowing the Gods will always keep them on the right track.
Game of Chess
After the war it was clear that people don’t want to suffer the same ordeal ever again. But nevertheless, it would be foolish to expect that disagreements would never happen again. They would continue to happen on a daily basis, between individuals, groups of people or whole regions. But rather than let hate prevail, they knew they needed the new approach. After all, fighting wars is such a human thing to do, and surely our race has advanced past that. It was time for a new era where reason will prevail!
It was around that time that the most respectable and reasonable scholars of our world created the game of chess. The game was designed to mimic a war, but of course, in a way that would require the players to use their reason and logic to win, rather than brute force. The game is played on a checkered board, consisting of 8x8 black and white squares. The players get either black or white pieces, representing the black and white army fighting the war. The player with the white pieces is always the one who proposed the battle, and always starts first. Same as the white king was the first to attack the black king. Each player gets 16 pieces, representing important figures in a war: 8 common warriors, 2 towers, 2 fairies, 2 unicorns, and of course, a queen and a king. All of the pieces have complex rules on how they move and what they can do, and the game has almost needlessly complicated rules. This is pretty much so that only the smartest people will be able to truly master the game, and so only the person's intellect is the main deciding point in who will win and who will lose. There is no cheating the game with anger, only calm and logical thinking will get you a win.
Future Wars
Of course, sometimes only a simple game of chess between two people isn’t enough, but this was taken care of too. While chess remains an important central point of every battle, people of our world have come up with a full set of elaborate rules for fighting bigger wars among each other, or even with other worlds. You can read more about this on BDSM Army’s page.
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