The Age of Awakening

The year is 874, the land is fractured and conflicted. Many empires have risen from the ashes of long forgotten wars, each trying to lay claim to the land it believes rightfully belonged to their respective ancestors and rulers of old. None of this would be possible were it not for Etherium, the life blood of modern times. Even the oldest tomes only briefly tell of the time when the fragments were discovered, glowing and crystalline, protruding from the ground as if they had grown there.