Hespon

This is the one from yesterday. Advantage of being ill, it's shorter!
Hopefully I can get today's done as well.
So:
In the land of Hespon, magic is a finite resource. Something which the kingdom of () would have rather liked to know about in advance. For the kingdom made rather… liberal… use of magic. Floating cities, with impossible architectures. Life-support. Power. Transport. Kratia was the most powerful nation in all of Hespon at its height, and magic was its lifeblood.
Then the magic ran out. It was slow - but ultimately, that didn’t matter much, because it was the big spells which ran out fast. Spells like the ones which kept the great cities of Kratia aloft.
It was, obviously, a disaster. Magic was all but gone from the world, and even those nations who had relied upon it less than Kratia did, had used it extensively. Who wouldn’t, when it could solve so many problems? And so, not only did hunger and poverty returned to the world, but the infrastructure of the world,  unsuited to functioning without magic, were utterly unprepared to deal with them.
But less obvious than the immediate  devastation were the social implications - those who survived  the devastation were understandably bitter, and telling them that it was noone’s fault, and that noone could have known what was coming was, probably understandably, less than satisfying to them.
And those who bore the brunt of their anger, were the wizards. For magic was exhausted, but not completely gone. The cleverer wizards are still able to use the last dregs of it.
But they have lost massive amounts of power, and live in constant fear of their lives. So, naturally, they have banded together, to survive in this new world.
The most prominent of the wizard guilds is Astrothetema. And they have made a discovery - that the overuse of magic really wasn’t their fault.
Studies at the University-Fortress of Loes, where Astrothetema makes its home have, by painstaking research, pieced together what must have happened.
In fact, there must have been some incredible spike in magic usage, far beyond what any mortal would be capable of, to so thoroughly drain the world of magic. Research into what, exactly, might have caused this spike is ongoing, but seems constantly to be plagued by inexplicable bad luck.
Meanwhile, taking advantage of the hatred of magic that has been stirred up, the New Empire of Noeta has started to form in the East. It is led by a cabal of fanatics, who rejected the use of magic long before it became fashionable to do so. And they are slowly expanding across the world.
They aren’t the only power in Noeta, though. The University Fortress of Aucha is dedicated to science and non-magical technology. They have provided incredibly advancement to the Empire, and are popular with the common people.  Which the government dislikes, because Aucha considers itself to be above the laws of the Empire, and will regularly flout any they feel impinge upon their status as an independent body. Laws with which they disagree strongly enough, they have even been able to bring down entirely. The council ruling Noeta finds this situation intolerable, but needs the cooperation of the scientists of Aucha to cement its power.