-A mother lulls her child to sleep with a bedtime story

The remnants of the civilized races fight daily to scrape a living in a world they can no longer master. By night, they huddle in fear around small fires, starting at wild sounds from beyond their sight. Ruined monuments to long-dead kings and overgrown temples to forgotten gods dot the landscape, reminders of glories long past for those learned enough to know these sun-bleached bones for what they are. The world bears the scars of a great cataclysm mere centuries past, though few save for the eternal dragons now remember it…