Under the wise leadership of King Griffin, the continent of Erathia had maintained a delicate balance between good and evil, like the two sides of a scale. Neither side had gained much of an advantage, and the stalemate had lasted for many years.
But with the sudden death of the wise King Griffin, the balance of war between the two sides gradually tipped toward evil... Erathia soon descended into unprecedented chaos, and the peace that had already been hanging by a thread finally snapped. In its place came evil's invasion of Erathia and the endless wars that followed.
When Queen Catherine, who had married into a foreign kingdom, received news of her father's death, she was overcome with grief and immediately set sail from the Kingdom of Iron Fist for Erathia to mourn him. What she didn't know was that, because of the vast ocean, the long journey, and the time it took for the messenger to reach the Kingdom of Iron Fist, a long time had passed by the time her funeral fleet arrived safely on the continent.
As soon as she came ashore, she and her small retinue and escorting army were met with the sight of their ruined homeland and Erathia's war-ravaged, chaotic territory... Nearly all the villagers nearby had fled, and the towns were no exception. The handful of survivors who remained gave different accounts, but the evidence made it clear that Nighon had invaded and ravaged the land. What she saw was nothing but chaos, with no order or kingdom to govern it.
Unable to contact Erathia's royal family, key officials, or nobles, she also heard all sorts of rumors claiming that the kingdom had collapsed and Erathia was no more. In her grief and fury, and determined to rebuild the kingdom and drive out