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Behold, oh seer, that wicked age between the great spark and the passing of yet

another enclave of the children of men, when the flame of knowledge flickered to
a paltry candles light, and might was deemed chief among virtues. Long lost Ede
n passed into myth and it's children fell back to the savagery of their youth. A
s the life at the core of their new home turning tomb faded away new kingdoms we
re carved out, petty warlords cut swathes of misery, self proclaimed prophets ut
tered unspeakable blasphmies and man gorged on the blood of his neighbor. Lands
forever marred by hubris and mechanical deviltry gave birth to new tounges and n
ew peoples. The windblown dunes of Zaria, home of the last great jewel Ari-Desh
and her red helmed warriors. Duroas where spring is an oft forgotten promise, ho
me of savage men, sometimes eaters of flesh. The great steaming jungles of Tura,
home of strange fauna and floursecent flora and the walled cities of milky eyed
sages. On the western edges the great sweeping plains of Garut, where men dare
not tread the ruins of their mighty ancestors. Capria, haunted land of rain beso
tted forests and rocky hills, home of aristocrats playing at imperial grandeur w
hile peasants toil in the muck. These lands and countless others were the purgat
ory of star flung men in their waning days. Watch in the flame while an epoch of
humanity comes sputtering to a close, drowining in it's vitriol. Know that the
universe trends ever to Chaos, and all sins are repaid.
On long lost Eden man devised through great cunning a way to reach out and touch
the very heavens. The seed of mankind spread like a creeping vine through the b
lackness of the void, strange secrets were learned, and terrors that dwelt outsi
de time confronted him. Ever they pressed on, undaunted in their arrogance they
bent their will upon many worlds and made them in the likeness of their home. On
each they implanted a great device, a germ of Eden itself, one that could turn
desert into lush forest or frozen waste to tropical bounty.
All across the cosmos man made his home. All was not well, it is not seemly to f
orget ones place in the universe, and long since had man forgotten his proper st
ation. Too deep did humankind delve into secret things, and they found things lo
ng forgotten to them, things they had consigned to legend. Their great art had u
nbound the proper order of the universe, thus an equal unbinding was due to righ
t the course. Conflict rose in the hearts of those great ones of old, the flames
of war sprang up as a great blaze. The very cleverness that allowed him to trod
across the stars as though they were fields of green grass became a terrible we
apon and it exacted terrible price. There is naught among the sages who can say
for sure what particular folly brought about the use of this weapon only that it
was as a great spark that ignited a brief conflaguration across all the known r
ealms.
All the great homes of man were cut off from one another and a tremendous damage
was done unto all of them such that in many no sentient life survived. On one s
uch world mankind did survive but just so. He spent a long age in the dark, livi
ng as the beast of the dirt. Much was forgotten or half remembered and when he e
merged from the low places and the mountain fastness the world that greeted him
was alien to the one he supposed should be.

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