A world made up of five main continents and countless islands. Each continent carried its own unique traits. Traces of the first humans dated back to 5000 B.C.
Humanity now resided in Profinens, a land of floating islands and waterfalls, where cascading streams fell onto the islands below. In their earliest days, humans lived on a small island, hunting animals for survival. Yet in just six hundred years, they had already explored the entirety of the Profinens islands.
Over the next four centuries, they built their own alphabet, their own civilizations. They discovered magic and learned to manipulate light. Eventually, they stumbled upon a new landmass, about eighty kilometers away from the floating islands. It was almost entirely desert. For years, they roamed this barren land, studying it. They discovered mathematics, formed equations, and in the end, determined the desert's true size—three million square kilometers.
Within a thousand years, the population of Profinens grew so vast that the islands could no longer hold them. Scholars from all fields gathered, and with the help of sorcerers, they devised a plan: they would manipulate light to turn the deserts green.
A grand army of four thousand sorcerers—men and women alike—focused their power at once. For five hours they poured their strength into bending the light. Some fainted from exhaustion, others persevered with burning determination. At last, blades of grass began to pierce through the scorching sands. The plan had worked—the climate of Profinens had been transferred to the desert. In honor of this miracle, they named the land after the sorcerer clans: Nyxia.
Over the next two thousand years, humanity spread with staggering speed, discovering new continents along the way. One such discovery was Silverton, lying southwest of Nyxia. This continent was a colossal block of ice—850,000 square kilometers of frozen mass that could only melt at a heat of 9,999°C.
Another discovery was Legion, west of Nyxia. Its core was dry and barren, while its outer edges were lush and tropical. Rolling plains covered much of the land, with mountains clustered only in the south. Rumors whispered of mysterious creatures dwelling within those mountains.
Farther northwest of Nyxia lay the Pre-Pre Islands. Though called a continent, it was in truth a cluster of countless islands bound together. Rich in both underground and surface resources, it was a paradise of pure tropical wonder.
The last continent, however, carried the heaviest burden of all: Sugoa. Nestled to the northeast of Nyxia, it was surrounded by dozens of islands, both large and small. Humanity's final discovery—and their first great disaster. It was said that cursed giants lived beneath its soil, emerging at night to hunt.
Legends told of a group of scouts who ventured into Sugoa, only to be found the next morning ripped apart, their blood drained. Alarmed, the flourishing Profinens government sent a force of sorcerers to gather intelligence. But in a single night, fifteen hundred sorcerers were slain. Realizing the severity of the threat, the government declared a day of mourning, sealing off all sea routes to Sugoa, forbidding anyone from ever setting foot there again.
This catastrophe shook Profinens to its core. The once-mighty government collapsed overnight, leaving behind a power vacuum. Smaller clans rose to fill it, with Hare, Groyi, Simspa, and Cryfall emerging as the four great powers of the age. Locked in a cold war-like rivalry, their endless struggle would soon drag the world into even greater calamities.