Where the Dragon Empire basked in eternal twilight, the Human Empire greeted each day with the blazing fury of a conquering sun. The great continent of Aurelius stretched beneath golden skies, its fertile plains and sprawling cities bearing witness to the dominion of mortals who had dared to dream of godhood.
Here, under the burning pride of the Human Emperor, the Eloise family had ruled for eons—a dynasty forged in the crucible of rebellion when House Obsidian had helped shatter the draconic chains that once bound humanity. It was a history that other continents and empires had seemingly forgotten, their reverence for the Obsidian name fading like morning mist before the sun of their own ambitions.