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The prologue tells a story of Natlan before its fragile "peace", during the devastating conflict later remembered as the Cinder War. As the Abyss began corrupting the land and its Ley Lines, entire regions turned unstable, forcing Murata to take absolute control. She led her people through fire and sacrifice, burning away threats before they could consume the nation, but at a terrible cost - countless lives, shattered lands, and a society reshaped by survival above all else. During this time, a mysterious warrior known only as Echo emerged. Neither fully human nor fully divine, Echo fought where the frontlines collapsed, stabilizing disasters that even armies could not contain. She became both a symbol of hope and a silent weapon of necessity. Yet as the war progressed, Echo vanished without explanation, leaving behind only fragmented legends and an absence that Natlan never truly recovered from.The war ended not with victory, but with exhaustion. Murata preserved Natlan, but in doing so, she hardened it. The land itself retained scars-ash that remembers footsteps, flames that flicker with instability. From that moment on, Natlan's peace was never genuine; it became something enforced, and constantly prepared for collapse.