Prologue: Backward Message In Circuit Sunder… Alsimeyr Continent… Fetid Meyr, once untamed and toxic… The smouldering land of Zomah… The city, Smogpolis… A ‘closet’ apartment…

You could best describe them as shards. Scattered about the void was shards. In these shards were glimpses of ruined worlds. They did not spin…

Laughter and cheer filled the tavern from wall to wall, from table to table. Though all was shadowy under dim candle-light and dimmer hearthflame, there…