The Schism

Disaster / Destruction

The Hotsukai, seeking to end the conflict with the yokai, attempts to set up a magical barrier between the two kingdoms by bolstering his power with an unprecedented pocket of dense mana. In an uncontrolled chain reaction a tear in the material plane destroys most of the troops on either side of the border and creates a large pocket of lifelessness that would come to be called the Fade. The Hotsukai himself is also destroyed. A small group of elite Shudan warriors led by the barbarian Ono is cut off behind enemy lines on the eastern side of The Fade.