The world is long dead, its shroud wrapped in eternal ashes.
My name is Link, a scavenger who could walk on corpses, until I awakened the ancient engine buried deep in the core of the Old One.
From that day on, I heard the "truth" of the world.
That whisper is both power and curse. It can make scrap metal spontaneously form a killing blade, make dust condense into an indestructible barrier, and instill fear into the enemy's brains. But it was also eating away at my sanity, luring me into madness with the revelation of impending doom.
A group of lunatics calling themselves the "Sound Chasers" saw me as a walking god, and they hunted me feverishly in an attempt to sacrifice me to their imaginary god. The only remaining fortress city, "Noah's Ark," regarded me as a taboo source of infection and wanted to completely eliminate me.
They are all wrong.
They thought I was listening to an oracle. No, I was listening to a "testament" from before the destruction of the world. What they are chasing is God, and I... Will become a more terrifying taboo than God. When the whole world is against me, then let this broken land tremble again in my whisper!