City-States fight for power and influence over the resource-rich islands in the central sea, while God-Kings, emperor's and High-Priest dispute control over the mainland, and minor kingdoms defiantly struggle to maintain their independence. Both technology and magic are in their infancy of development, but as they are crude, they are powerful. This is an age of where muscle, bronze, blood and magic are blunt tools to be used to carve one's destiny. Beasts, divine curses and prophetic oracles with their doomsaying plague mankind as it emerges from the Dawn of Civilizations.