[ WP ] Magic is discovered and it 's channeled with music . Modern nations dissolve and new countries rise in their place divided by the preferred music . In the frozen north lie the Metal kingdoms . Far to the south are the countries of Soul etc .

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 The drums beat faster and faster and faster and faster. Inside the circle of watchers, the first wizard started to groove to the beat. 
 
 The magic-off had begun. 
 
 `` I'm a soul man,'' he crooned. 
 
 It's funny how some songs have magic. You can feel it when you listen to them. It makes your bones shiver and the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. Electricity courses down your spine. 
 
 The music changed. Some heavy power chords split the air, rending the fabric of space and time and reality. The second wizard began to rock. He was a pale young man, from the city formerly known as Chicago. 
 
 He was also old for a wizard. 
 
 You see no wizard lives past 27. 
 
 Anyone can make normal music. 
 
 But magic requires a pact with the dark forces that lie somewhere below the bass clef. And at 27 years of age, they come to take what is owed to them. 
 
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