Planet Larka had long shed the limitations of a single world. Humanity, once bound to its cradle, had spread its dominion across every habitable body in its solar system. Cities flourished on various planets, and the dream of universal conquest burned brighter than ever.
To reach further—to cross the void beyond stars—they created the Hyperfold Gate.
It was to be their greatest achievement. A gateway, designed to bend space itself and connect them to any corner of the universe in an instant. But when the Gate activated, it didn't open a corridor through space.
It tore through reality.
And on the other side... was not another star system, but a realm saturated with raw, unfiltered Mana—a force ancient and unknowable, untouched by science or reason.
The tear became a conduit.
Mana surged into Larka like a flood breaking through a shattered dam.
Larka screamed—not in sound, but in shuddering earthquakes, shrieking skies, and the wrenching of reality itself.
Skies split with arcane lightning. Mountains cracked and floated. Oceans turned luminous and unstable. Reality twisted. The laws of physics rewrote themselves.
In less than a year, over 60% of the human population vanished—swallowed by storms, devoured by mutated beasts, or simply erased in pulses of wild energy. Power grids collapsed. AI systems turned to madness. Machines failed.
For the first time in centuries, technology became unreliable.
This calamity became known as Year 0: The Genesis Rift.
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Year 1 AG (After Genesis)
When the storms finally began to wane, the shattered remnants of humanity emerged. They gathered into makeshift settlements, carving out fragile pockets of life from a world no longer familiar.
It was then the first mutations began.
Exposure to Mana twisted the body—but did not always destroy it. Survivors began to change, their biology adapting to the new rules of existence.
Humans evolved. And so did everything else.
Animals once considered harmless grew monstrous—grotesque hybrids of myth and nightmare. Apex predators emerged, each one ruling its territory like a god of old.
The flesh and cores of these monsters, when consumed or refined, enhanced human strength and vitality.
Some began to instinctively channel Mana, unlocking strength, speed, and resilience far beyond human limits.
When the Mana Rift tore through spacetime, it didn't just change Larka—it collapsed all habitable planets in the solar system into one, fusing them into a single massive world bound by chaotic gravitational and magical forces.
Continents clashed. Biomes merged. Ecosystems collided violently. The planet became a patchwork of alien skies, colliding terrains, and unstable Mana zones.
Nations crumbled. Maps became meaningless.
Power shifted to warlords, tribal elders, and survival clans, each fighting to claim and control the unfamiliar regions of this newly-formed world.
The first sightings of Monstrous Overlords were recorded—beasts of immense power and intelligence that carved out their own mutated domains, becoming apex rulers of the wild.
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Year 30 AG
Humanity began to rebuild.
Outposts grew into fortified towns. Old-world technology was salvaged and merged with Mana-crafting. Pre-Rift bunkers and labs were rediscovered, holding the key to survival—and evolution.
The earliest forms of Mana Forging emerged, blending alchemy, ancient metallurgy, and the remnants of lost science.
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Year 60 AG – The Rise of Havlion
From the heart of a burning warfront rose a single man—Albrecht Havlion.
A warrior unmatched. A tactician unrelenting.
He unified scattered warbands under one banner, forging the Havlion Empire.
One king, one law, one vision.
The strong rise, the weak serve.
The Empire marched outward, claiming territory through conquest, absorbing all who could not resist.
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Year 72 AG – The Alliance of Freedom
Not all knelt.
A coalition of free city-states, tribes, and scholars formed the Alliance of Freedom (AoF)—a decentralized network bound by consensus and cooperation.
No king, no throne.
Knowledge is the real strength.
Where Havlion ruled with force, the AoF advanced through collaboration and innovation.
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Year 95 AG – The Sanctum of Divine Light
From the sacred ruins of fallen temples, the Sanctum of Light emerged.
Founded by mystics, monks, and zealots, they believed the Mana surge was no accident, but a divine test.
Mana is a gift from the gods, not to be corrupted by machines.
Technology is heresy—faith and purity must guide humanity.
Ruled by the Supreme Pontiff, with oracles, saint-knights, and divine mages upholding sacred law.
To them, Havlion was a beast with no soul. The AoF, a fool blinded by pride. They would "purify" the world if they had to—by fire and steel.
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Year 136 AG – The Era of Magitech
Across Larka, Mana and Machine began to truly merge.
The Three Great Powers—Havlion, AoF, and the Sanctum—established borders, but tension ran deep.
Skirmishes erupted. Spies moved in shadows. The world entered a cold war of power and ideology.
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Year 219 AG – First Contact
Humanity discovered it was not alone.
Strange gates—appearing in regions where Mana pooled and thickened into unstable densities—opened to other realms. These were not just rifts in space, but gateways to other worlds.
Through them, humans encountered new species:
Some were friendly, offering wisdom and trade.
Some remained indifferent, watching from afar.
Others were hostile, seeking conquest or chaos.
These interdimensional meetings redefined what it meant to exist in the universe—and reminded humanity how small it still was.
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Year 244 AG – The Age of Alchemical Awakening
Alliances with alien races sparked a new golden age of knowledge.
With help from inter-realm scholars and mages, humans learned a magical system foreign even to their understanding of Mana—Alchemy.
Alchemy ignored the laws of chemistry, using Mana-rich ingredients to produce true miracles:
Curing even the most mysterious and incurable diseases.
Enhancing physical traits—strength, speed, reflexes, even senses.
Reviving lost limbs, regenerating flesh and bone as if sculpted anew.
From that point forward, a force's true power was no longer measured by just the size of their armies or the might of its machines — but by the depth of their alchemical mastery as well.
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Year 272 AG – The First Half-Human
In the trade city of Vardis, history was made.
A child was born from a human father and a dwarven mother—the first half-human hybrid.
Strong and highly attuned to Mana, the child defied all stereotypes.
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Year 380 AG – The Hybrid Bloom
By now, half-humans made up a significant portion of the world's newborns.
Their advantage was undeniable:
Inherited racial traits from other species.
Natural affinity for Mana.
And enhanced intellect, strength, or longevity, depending on lineage.
Hybrid children rose swiftly through academies, guilds, and military ranks, becoming symbols of a new age—and, in some corners, targets of resentment.
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Year 475 AG – Present Day
Larka has changed.
The planet is stable—but always on the brink.
Monsters have grown intelligent, some organizing into tribes, clans, even nations.
The Sanctum grows militant, launching divine crusades across Havlion and AoF lands.
Havlion expands with ruthless precision, eyeing Magitech strongholds with imperial hunger.
The AoF digs deeper into the past, uncovering forbidden knowledge that could change the world again.
But beneath their struggles, unseen and unknown, a quiet storm brews.
In a forgotten corner of the world, an ancient force of chaos begins to rise once more.
Destined to reshape the fate of not just Larka, but of the entire universe.
This is the Tale of Lascivia, the The Cult of Flesh, Ecstasy, and Corruption