: Re: My premise suggests a LOT more history than I want in my book I'm writing a fantasy story in which there is a contemporary earth (our earth) and a secondary world. Due to certain reasons

You see three options:

1) I like history so I like option 1.

2) involves a change in the abilities or plans or desires of Earthlings who go to the secondary world, so that more of them change things there. This involves a sociological change in all Earthlings in recent history, or a change in a small subset of Earthlings that you define as the ones able to go to the secondary world.

3) involves a change in Earth that explains why more Earthlings go to the secondary world, such as growing population combined with other factors involving whatever small subset of Earthlings that are able to go to the secondary world according to the (possibly complex) rules of your story.

4) The one you didn't mention, is a change in the secondary world that enables more Earthlings to go there and change it. Maybe more magical equivalents of transporter pads are built there so more Earthlings can cross over. Maybe the Anti Earth Magic Service has worked too well and the secondary world congressional budget committee doesn't believe that magic users from Earth are a threat and slashes the budget, allowing more magic users from Earth to drastically change the secondary world, including abolishing the secondary world government and its Anti Earth Magic Service.

I recommend a combination of two, or three, or all four options.

The increasing numbers of Earthlings who cross over and use magic in the secondary world can be a important plot element. Separate characters can each identify a trend that is partially responsible for more magic users coming from Earth, and calculate that the number who cross over will eventually destroy both worlds. Later they meet and compare notes and discover that the several different causes reinforce each other and the doomsday moment will be much sooner than they thought.

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