Part I - The Prodigal Son

  Life...

  Since the dawn of time, it has raced forward, striving for unreachable extremes....

  ...From unparalleled Peace and Prosperity...

  ...to the utter annihilation of it's own existence...

  Amidst this headlong rush, a civilization arose on a small world, calling themselves the Atlans. This society built a great empire which spanned the stars.

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  Not much is now known of the people of the Atlan Empire. Legends tell of wondrous technology, and say that the elements of nature themselves were under the Atlans control.

  No one knows why the Atlans disappeared, or what happened to them. Only the Storytellers and Loremasters remember them now. These tell legends of great wars and catastrophes that wiped out this once great community...

  ...However, History has an unnatural way of repeating itself, and of re-opening old legends....

  ...Time Marches On,

  And life continues...

  --Tristan Telgan (Prologue to the Journal of Aralistran History, Atlan Year 7,043)