The ruined city of Veridian was once renowned for its celestial observatories and the brilliant minds who charted the cosmos. But now, a palpable aura of dread clings to its crumbling structures, a direct consequence of what locals whisper of as “The Luminary’s Gloom.” It wasn't a sudden catastrophe, but a gradual fading – the light of the

From a singularity, a symphony of energy and matter erupted in a cataclysmic event that shattered equilibrium. This infancy of the universe, known as primeval creation, unfolded with astonishing rapidity. The primordial fabric was a swirling maelstrom of quarks and leptons, relentlessly stretching under the influence of fundamental forces. In this