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== Introduction ==


It is ''Pergo'', the nest where protean man landed on his issue from the heavens and there dwelt in the unceasing delight of ''Epani'', the unspoiled, the pure and perfect world. Epani was forsaken, and the grief of its passing is the only vestige which remains.

Pergo, as it is blessed in the tongue of the Arqi, is a world seeded by humanity in the unremembered past, one more node in the vast, cosmic network of that prolific race. Cataclysm and long isolation have since reduced the monuments of this glorious past to ruins and dimmed the memory of their great legacy to a fading ember. After millennia of primitive existence on the margins of savagery, the diverse Terran progeny has returned to civilization. Not all had entirely forgotten the ancient times; titillating hints of past grandeur were uncovered in ritual, religion, and epics. Peoples were nurtured by strange forces from beyond the veil of the universe, converging upon the world for a reason that all mortals must be ignorant of - Pergo is the sole remaining refuge of humanity in the universe.

Here is the age of glorious Arqualan! Though a thousand eons have passed since the Great Ruin destroyed Epani, a new golden age is in the offing. The vast and populous commonwealth of Arqualan spans the greater part of three continents and comprises more than 100 million souls. In all things, the Arqi believe themselves the pinnacle of humanity, supreme in the arts and sciences, renown in their history, and the exemplars of morality and high civilization. Who can dispute them? For the Eternal Empire possesses wealth undreamed and might unmatched, and in this age when the very Gods walk amongst men, they are shepherded by their Illuminarch, Ionomîs, greatest of the deities, the incarnation of the Divine Wisdom of God-Most-High! 

''But Epani was forsaken'' – and the bliss of the elder days is not yet recovered. From the north of the world the inscrutable and powerful nations of the Hangriti, in the thrall of their ruthless and terrible Gods, ravenously eyes the jewel of the southlands. To the west are the humbled yet devious sorcerer states of Lostram and Keom, rich with knowledge of deviltry and hordes of potent archaeotech. In the deeps of the southern oceans dwell the recalcitrant corsair kingdoms and the scarcely penetrated mystery of Anducydo, the fourth continent. Within Arqualan are more perils, perhaps deadlier: corruption, betrayal, and the machinations of dark and insidious powers. 

You are one among the great mass of divers humanity or, perhaps, a more singular being - a child of Gods, a spawn of Devils, bound to Spirits, or illuminated by Prophets. Will you labor to sustain the Eternal Empire or to tear it down for its enemies? Or, will you harness this special favor by building your own majesty among the inglorious nations of the world, commanding powerful armies, leading great religions, and forging a new order in preparation for the great trials which must come?
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