The Shift is a very dramatic and continual event that began in the Prussian Julian calendar year, 1816, and, as of the year 1898, it has yet to stop its continuous changes to our world of Remnant. Although none so dramatic and impactful as when it first began on January 11th, 1816. An entire landmass, that has since been named Europa in memory of its original home, was not taken, but copied and placed in the cold southern sea in between the continents of Sanus and Anima.

The people that inhabited this new land were all asleep at the time of The Shift, and few noticed when it happened, and the ones that were awake at the time reported that they didn't notice any difference in the world until they looked outside and saw half of a shattered moon in the night sky. The next morning, many still hadn't known about The Shift, but a week later, the population was in an uproar and many feared it was Judgement Day.

The popular King of Prussia, Frederick William von Hohenzollern the third, also known as The Great Unifier, realized that something drastic needed to be done. The other nations that had accompanied Prussia, the Kingdoms of Bavaria, Saxony, Württemberg, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Luxembourg, and Oldenburg had all fallen into chaos along with territories of nations that had followed, but the rest of the nation hadn't, namely Elsass-Lothringen and Schleswig-Holstein. Due to the anarchy of these nations and territories, the King of Prussia ordered the superb Prussian military to temporarily occupy the kingdoms and territories in order to restore order until the whole story had been found out, and order restored.

The first natives of Remnant to find out about the new arrivals were Faunus fishermen from Sanus that stumbled upon elements of the Prussian Navy that were sent to investigate the brand new coasts of Elsass-Lothringen, Bavaria and Posen. The first conversation between these two groups happened on board the SMS Stettin, one of the three Great Frigates of the Brandenburg Klasse in the Prussian Navy at the time. The surprise, curiosity, and kindness of the Prussian sailors towards the Faunus is well documented, although in recent years this is debated by members of the White Fang.

Due to this encounter, the people of Europa were relieved to find that they were not alone, and very eager to begin trade with the kingdoms of Vale, Mistral, Vacuo, and Mantle in order to stop the massive food shortage that was beginning to occur on Europa. Of course, the Kingdom of Vale, its people, and their King were more than willing to supply much food to the Prussians and the territories they were occupying. Mistral was not as eager, but an outcry from its people forced the nobility to allow trade, feeding the people that needed it. Vacuo had not the resources nor the merchant fleet to help, and so it didn't. Mantle was very cautious of the new arrivals, but a trade agreement was quickly established, however, it would take months before the promised goods would make the long journey from Solitas in the north to Europa in the South. The small population of Menagerie was very happy to send its large excess food supply to the hungry people of Europa after hearing how accepting they were of Faunus, and what could have been the death of almost 6 million was averted.

However, this was just the end of one of Prussia's brand new problems, due to the new location of Europa, far south of the equator, the already cold Prussian winter became nigh unbearable, once again the small population of Menagerie came to the rescue, sending excess winter supplies from their frigid winters, a stark contrast to their scalding summers and springs.

When the small Prussian Navy first saw water based Grimm shortly after the first trade goods from Mantle arrived, they did not know the danger of the creatures, and the crew of the SMS Ruhe, a 32 gun Frigate of the Hannover Klasse, were nearly capsized if not for the nearby SMS Retter, a 72 gun Frigate of the Baden Klasse, quickly firing a devastating broadside that killed the Kraken that attacked the Ruhe and severely damaged the ship it intended to save, said ship was quickly towed back to port at Wilhelmshaven for repairs and to report the sea monster.

The King of Prussia, of course, asked what this creature was, and was shocked and worried to find that the horrible creatures were on land as well as sea, and was further informed that around seventy-five percent of Remnants landmass was populated with them. He quickly inquired if there were any strategies for defending against the creatures of Grimm. This marked the origin of the Jägertruppe Programme, the program itself would not begin for some years, due to the complete and utter lack of Grimm on Europa, however, special ships were quickly designed, tested and put into service in the Prussian Navy called Flottenwächters for combatting the Grimm of the sea and protecting the vital, but relatively unarmed, merchant fleet.

But elsewhere in the world, century-old tensions between the four original kingdoms were beginning to boil over, the alliance between Mantle and Mistral, and their agreement to do away with personal rights and individuality had created a large rift between the aforementioned kingdoms and the kingdoms of Vale and Vacuo. The King of Prussia was appalled by Mistrals use of Faunus slaves and cut off trade with the kingdom, leaving the Prussian government and himself to rapidly fill the impending lack of food with land reform and government founded farms given to local land barons.

However, before any of these reforms or the construction of the farms were finished, a fight broke out between Mistralian and Valean settlers on the eastern part of Sanus, sparking a powder keg that would send the entire world into war.

The Kingdom of Mantle came to its allies aid and declared war upon the Kingdom of Vale just days later, and for the first two years, Vale stood alone against a third of the world. Prussian military elements were sent to Vale to study the arts of warfare performed there, and Mantle cut off its trade to Prussia, creating a rift between the two countries and forcing the government to speed up its construction of the farms meant to replace trade.

Vacuo soon rose against the Mantlese and Mistralians that occupied it and allied itself with Vale, declaring war on Mantle and Mistral.

At this time in Prussia, many new parents were shocked to find that their newborn children were Faunus, not only that but they all had two to three animal traits compared to the standard one. Some of the people of Menagerie were asked to help with these drastic changes, and a book titled Faunus, and how to care for them was published in Prussia within a few months of this amazing change.

This distraction was quickly snuffed out by Mantle, however, when they began raiding and confiscating the crucial trade between Prussia and its closest friend, the Kingdom of Vale. The King of Prussia heavily protested this new development saying that the Prussian people would fight them if it meant preventing the people from starving, Mantle and its King cared little about what they saw as an empty threat and continued. This forced the Kingdom of Prussia to bear arms against its new neighbors and just two and a half short years after they arrived in this strange new world, in the year 1818, they declared war against one of them.

An alliance between Prussia and Vale was finalized within the week and the Prussian and Valean navies went about transporting part of Prussia's colossal military to Sanus. This was also the first time Prussians would hear of aura, which was swiftly incorporated into both the Prussian Army and Navy. The twenty-one-year-old prince Wilhelm Friedrich Louis, the King's second son and future Kaiser, went to war with his superior and Prussian hero, Generalfeldmarchall Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, who participated and won a series of wars from the Old World call the Napoleonic Wars, which had ended a very short time before The Shift.

Blücher, who was seventy-five, was known as being the most enthusiastic and gleeful commanders of the alliance, had an amazing ability to rally his men and a tendency to lead devastating charges of Prussian cavalry against Mantlese and Mistralians. This attitude was only furthered when his aura was unlocked by the King of Vale, and it shocked many when the aging commander seemed to regain some of the health of his youth. Causing many elders in Prussia to do the same. Civilians unlocking their aura has become a problem in recent years, and the Prussian Kaiser Friedrich Wilhelm the second has had to forbid it for anyone under sixty-five. Blücher would die one year after the end of the war at age eighty-six.

It was also discovered that the auras of Prussian born horses could be unlocked, this was also regulation for the Prussian Army, whose cavalry became infamous for causing even the most hardened of soldiers to break. Prussian lancers and hussars dominated every battle the enemy was unlucky enough to be a part of, particularly the Bosniaks and the Deaths head hussars.

The Prussian people, understandably tired of the Napoleonic wars, which had lasted for a decade, were reluctant to support another war, but they liked their King, and many were desperate not to be hungry again.

Throughout the war, both the Prussians and the Valeans learned much about each other and their ways of life. It was discovered that Prussian musket rounds made by the Krupp AG did much more damage to aura than dust usually did. This led to the Prussian King signing a contract that gave the Krupp AG a monopoly over Prussian steel if they would not sell that mixture of steel to foreign kingdoms or those that might do so. It was also discovered, that a different mixture of steel made by Krupp that had dust incorporated into it was found to be much more efficient at penetrating Grimm bone armor than traditional dust, this mixture was allowed to be sold to anyone and everyone for obvious reasons.

The war ended in 1828 after a particularly devastating final victory won by the Prussians and Valeans, known as Endsieg in Prussia, against the Mantlese during the Valean led Vacuon campaign. During the negotiations on the island of Vytal, Prussia vehemently refused to abolish its monarchy, the Frederick William the third himself saying to the Warrior King of Vale, "You sir, have my utmost respect for the foes you have beaten and the causes that you stand up for. But I will die before our monarchy is abolished because of the reasons you have presented before us. Especially if it is to be replaced by a self-serving council." This is in reference to the reasons the King of Vale stated as enough cause to do away with them and install councils in their place. The reason is famously controversial, stating that the main cause for the war was a feud between the monarchs when many say it was due to the Mistralians using slave labor and the Mantlese banning individualism. The confusing Mistralian Augustine calender was also replaced with the simple Prussian Julian Calendar. The different dates sometimes caused battles to be lost due to late reinforcements. The Kingdom of Atlas, having replaced the now defunct Kingdom of Mantle due to a military coup, gifted Vale, Mistral, and Vacuo the Cross Continental Transit System. The Prussians famously refused an offer to install one in their capital city of Berlin, citing that such a drastic change in such a short time would not be beneficial to the people.

The war gave Prussia all the reason it needed to annex all of the non-Prussian territories on Europa and proclaim the Prussian Empire. Proclaiming himself, Kaiser William the first. This was shortly after the Warrior King of Vale abdicated, and was never heard from again. The war also drastically accelerated weapons development in all kingdoms, producing airplanes from Prussia, although none were effective, early Bullheads from Vale, radios from Mantle, chemical weapons from Mistral, and primitive magazine fed firearms from Vacuo.

Sixty years later, when the Faunus Rights Revolution began, Prussia refused any part of it, saying that believing that Faunus and Humans were different species was a fallacy, as both groups could produce children with the other. Little attention was paid to these sayings.

Since the war, Atlas and Prussia have butted heads over various things, mostly the Atlesian treatment of Faunus, but also over who had the bigger and better military.

This year, 1898, is the year that several members of Prussian royalty, namely Richard Wilhelm von Hohenzollern, Crown Prince of the Prussian Empire, his fiance Rubin Rose von Habsburg, a member of a dynasty lost to the Old World, and Johann von Arc of Elsass-Lothringen will be attending Beacon Academy in Vale, while Drache Academy in Berlin is under construction. Although this is not public knowledge, and they will be going under assumed names. Rubin, now Ruby is excited to see her cousin Yang Xiao Long and her aunt Raven, and the Crown Prince, going by the alias Richard Raeder, is thrilled to experience the fight against the Grimm firsthand.

So this is a concept that's been in my head for about a year, and I thought I'd finally write it down starting with this prologue giving some vital backstory for the things to come.

This my first serious story, so please review and tell me what you think, or what grammatical errors there might be.

The first chapter should be around by the 14th, maybe before depending on motivation and reviews.

10/8/18: Edits made adding minor details and fixing grammatical errors.