Roughly 300 years ago, a great calamity befell the world, though no one knows its true cause. The world tore itself asunderfrom the inside out, like a great newborn dragon unfurling and stretching for the first time. Vast amounts of magical energy poured from the world's core, itis said. The planet's shell was hurled out into the infinite blackness in large chunks as the sea boiled and evaporated.The Veil of Mist consumed the remaining shards of dirt and rock that clung to the body of this great dragonling and those who were left were thrown into a panic. Somebelieved they had ascended to the Next Great Life while others thought it was a time of prophecized Undoing. The magical energies eventually stabilized and the mists receded. The generation born into fog would now see the new world for the first time with their own eyes: a mass of floating earthen fragments held aloft by the energies radiating from the depths of the planet. Deep below their small landmasses, a ...