Imperial magicians sensed the tension of inter-world threads and searched for the cause. But the blow was unexpected. The joining of spheres—this is what the event was later called, the Great Cataclysm. The boundary separating the two worlds broke through, and cosmic energy poured into the planets, reshaping the continents. The empire that had lasted thousands of years collapsed in an instant. And chaos began. Seven hundred twelve years later, a river washes a mage’s phylactery out of the mountains. And from this moment, our story begins.