First Voice-Final Verse
The world appears ordinary just like ours—familiar in its rhythms, yet set behind in time. Machinery hums beside tradition—sometimes trains, sometimes motorcars driven by wealthy nobles—but more often, carriages roll past smoking chimneys, while kingdoms are steered by kings, noble hierarchies, or the slow rise of a free governments. Life flows with a sense of normalcy, grounded in the familiar struggles of class, duty, and survival. Sebastian Stormvale, a special young man, moves through it all, his presence quietly marking him as someone both part of the world and apart from it.
Yet beneath this surface, the fabric of existence carries its own weight. The people’s faith is divided. Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, and other religions are treated as minority and distant religions, but it is the Esoteric Religions that dominate the majority. Sixteen churches devoted to sixteen gods, their influence stretching across continents and shaping the very way of life and people’s faith. These gods are not distant—they are present in symbols, in rituals, in the unspoken certainty, in secrets and mysteries that humanity holds..
Languages, too, tell a story of division and history. Each kingdom or continent speaks its own tongue, shaped by centuries of migration, war, and trade. Some languages are ancient, surviving from empires long fallen, while others are the product of more recent blending of cultures. Written texts preserve not only laws and poetry but also the hidden knowledge and forgotten traditions, accessible only to those willing—or able—to decipher them.
But belief and language are only the beginning. Like our world, secrets also exist here—whispered, hidden, sometimes dismissed as superstition. Yet unlike ours, the secrets here are not trivial. They are the roots of the structured tree of reality itself, touching the fate of kingdoms, the survival of humanity, and even the balance of the universe. Those who stumble upon them and acquire that very knowledge as a part of them is never harmless. They become something special—different from the rest of humanity. The voices of the ordinaries, abnormals, secrets and mysteries shape this world. In this world, to uncover what lies hidden is to risk being changed by it—forever. Sebastian Stormvale knows this better than most.
