The Other Shore and the Mortal World: A Portrait of the Age Against the Gods

As the shadow of the end quietly spreads, and Bai Shi and the mortals leave their marks in the whirlpool of fate, they do not struggle alone like solitary stars. In this broken world, abandoned by the gods and coveted by the end, countless sparks once shone, and countless stories were swept into the storm that engulfed all things.

This collection of side stories turns its gaze toward souls who were likewise swept along by the tides of their age, struggling amid the grand narratives of gods and mortals, life and death.

Beyond the Shore and the Mortal World: Portraits of an Age Against the Gods is not a footnote to the main story, but an epic portrait of the many lives that filled that broken land. It fills in the blank spaces of history, reveals the foreshadowing hidden beneath the main story, and shows the countless other facets, just as heroic, tragic, and luminous with glimmers of humanity and divinity, beyond Bai Shi's search for the meaning of life and the mortals' embrace of life's warmth.

Some of these scattered stars have long since gone dark, some still struggle in the gloom, and others have quietly joined the sparks resisting the end. Together, their stories form the sweeping backdrop to a desperate struggle against the end, waged for the sake of life.

With the prelude to the world-ending catastrophe already underway, these embers, buried beneath the dust of time, will once again shine with the power to reveal the truth and bind destinies together.