War, never-ending war.
That's all the races of Atlantia knew; ever since they evolved enough to scheme, war had ensured.
First, they fought individually among their own race with sticks and rocks.
Then, over time, they learned to band together and create factions as they fought with sword and shield.
By the time they discovered other bipedal creatures who lived on the same landmass as them and walked as they did but looked different, they had discovered how to use magic, and with that, the faction wars turned into racial wars.
Over time, they learned to build more advanced equipment until eventually they could build ships that they powered with magic. These ships allowed them to travel across the giant blue oceans that surrounded the lands they lived on.
After setting sail on these ships, they found other pieces of land with new strange bipedal creatures; thus, the racial wars became continental wars.
Eventually, almost the whole of Atlantia was engulfed in war between the different races, though there were some races that decided not to partake and hid away in their own lands behind powerful defences to protect themselves.
The wars were fought for centuries before the Elves, the wisest and most knowledgeable of all the races, brought word of a warning. Their oracle had seen a vision that if the wars did not stop, the world of Atlantia would be destroyed.
With the oracle's vision, the leaders of each race came to the table and listened to the Elves speak of peace; however, the races had fought each other for too long and there was too much bloodshed.
After many weeks and months of discussion, a solution was devised; they decided to create a virtual world that every being on the planet would have access to once a person reached their race's adulthood.
From then on, any wars or internal racial conflicts that endangered citizens' lives or, more importantly, the world, were to be fought in the virtual world.
Using the magical powers of the Elves and Draconians, they created a world-encompassing spell that made an exact replica of Atlantia within the virtual world; then, using the Dwarfs' technological prowess, access bands were created that allowed people to enter the virtual world from anywhere on the planet.
Then, as a final step for peace, each of the five most powerful races offered a volunteer to have their minds uploaded together and then merged to create an artificial intelligence that would run and watch over the virtual world so that no one race would have greater authority there than the others.
The artificial Intelligence took the name Tia, which was short for Atlantia.
And with the implementation of Tia, Genesis was created, and the world entered a new era.