Alexandria

Decades ago, a group of curious explorers ventured to the Ancient Ruin of Inyaa. Only expecting to find the derelict home to a long gone civilization, these men had come across a stone. They were quick to assume that their discovery was only one of a kind and extremely rare in it's worth. After transporting it back to their hometown, they realized that this stone was the farthest thing from a common treasure. The stone had an unexplainable power to put whoever exposes themselves to it's mysterious radiance in contact with what they assumed were Gods. After these claims, the rock was dubbed "Mother Mercury" by those who had heard of it's capabilities. Those with dark and corrupted minds however, would experience happenings that were much more horrifying. They reported sightings of nightmarish demons and other sinister figures. This would cause mass amounts of people across the world to go insane, whether it was directly from their experience with the stone, or from complete shock that such things could happen to people. Not long after, those with mastery of Cosmic Arts found out ways to manipulate people with the use of illusions, claiming that said illusions were avatars sent by the Gods themselves. This would only cause more corruption among other people. The use of Cosmic Arts in this way would go on to be called "Art of Ragnorak".

In the midst of the chaos that was stirred all these years ago, two feuding cults emerged based on their opposing beliefs of Mother Mercury's origin and intended purpose. The two being the "Saturnine" and the "Magisters". One night, while members of the Saturnine were in the midst of conducting their usual private research, a break in occurs in their main building. Two cultists, Oran Saderos and Kilzan Vivette, witness this while on their post and go to investigate the disturbance.