Journey Beyond the Endless Night

At the dawn of the Fifth Era, the Dayless Cataclysm descended. The Silver Sanctum collapsed into a pallid silhouette, and time ground the empire to dust. Still the Sea of Origins roared, its boiling tides gnawing day and night at the edges of reality, washing the remnants of civilization into jagged despair.

After one dark millennium after another, the banners of the Three Sages fell during the Twelfth Expedition. The Iron Father's forge lay cold as a tomb; tears of blood dripped from the Philosopher's boughs; and the Pathfinder's torch hissed in the downpour before dissolving into smoke. From then on, the world fractured completely. The city-states stood isolated from one another, with no hope of unity again...

"We set out from here. Along the Corridor of Dawn, through the Three Rings, we will unite every city-state and launch another expedition into the dark world. We swear to end the endless night."