The Age of Endless Night

In the second year of Tianmin, after three generations and more than a century of struggle, an empire conquered the entire continent, its borders stretching for tens of millions of miles. It was a realm like something out of myth, yet after only six years, it began to crumble. The emperor who had unified the world like a god ruled from his throne for just four years before an unknown nobody slit his throat in his sleep. At that moment, the divine miracle began to unravel. News of the king’s death quickly spread to every corner of the empire. In an instant, beacons of war blazed across the land, and countless factions and tribes rose in rebellion. War and heavenly punishment struck together. Floods, droughts, plague, and death descended upon the shattered empire. Over the following century, its population fell to a tenth of what it had been. Soldiers fought year after year, while ordinary people could see not the faintest glimmer of hope. The great empire had officially entered an era called Despair…