People say that six hundred some odd years ago, a great war ended grand civilizations the world over. Civilizations rife with magics and populated by powerful immortal beings from places beyond our world were laid waste by an alien pathogen introduced from beyond the dimensions of our understanding. These beings died, and their great cities brought to ruin. Our only evidence that these peoples and places even existed are mined from the ruins that can be found across the land and interpreted from the artifacts found there.
The past is the past, and our present is represented by the Ruknont Regency. The Regency is our modern society, an island of civilization in an otherwise brutal and untamed world. Our First Soldiery protects our borders and our way of life, just as the Council of Regents and the Lord Regent govern to our best interests.