On a watery blue planet stood two great nations, the Cangqiong Alliance and the Snowfield Dynasty, alongside countless smaller kingdoms, all of which were led by these three great powers. That was until Zichen rose to prominence. After its founding, Zichen rapidly conquered dozens of smaller kingdoms, but its successors failed to live up to their predecessors, and the nation stagnated. Then an emperor emerged who used the centuries-old foundations of Zichen as his chessboard. Through his own sacrifice, he ushered in a prosperous dynasty that at one point caught up with and surpassed the other two empires.
