When Alexius de Floronia was alive a thousand years ago, he probably never imagined that his heirs would name a continent and a calendar era after him, and that people in later generations would still delight in honoring him as the brightest pioneer in the continent's history and the model of a great king. Yet over the more than a thousand years that followed, from Floronia to Dupelin, and from Hitis to Orland, every change of regime on the continent was stained with blood and washed in war. As a result, whenever scholars of each generation put pen to paper to write about history, they could not help but reflect that every step forward or backward in the history of continental civilization represented either the splendor and prosperity or the turmoil and hardship of its age. A thousand years later, in the autumn of year 1002 of the Floronia Continental Calendar, the stories of Alex Kear, Charlemagne Orland, Sylvia Jailer, Best Covilo, and the others officially begin...