Chronicles of Toria: Setting the Stage (Vol. 0)

Volume 0, Act 1: The Century of a Rising Sun, summary:
In the Far East, stands a nation whose history and culture would tell a tale of a nation headed toward destruction, a ruined empire, and a traumatized population. Yet, against all odds, the first Eastern Democracy would defy all its enemies and stand victorious atop their ashes. The flag of the rising sun would wave alongside Western Europe in its darkest hours, forging with it, its own path and not succumbing to the whims of the so-called "Superpowers." Its influence would spread even further, and with it usher a century marked by the Empire of the Rising Sun.

Volume 0, Act 2: The Revolution's Torch, summary:
Toria had witnessed many events throughout history, from the countless rises and falls of Enyasin to the Conquest of Nartika by the Nomadic tribes of the interior, and to the isolationism of the Tsacrian Continent. All of them would shape the future of their lands for generations, but none were like this one. When the Lone Island arrived, no one could have predicted it would be the catalyst of change, that it would bring the Fires of Revolution and spread them to every corner of the globe. The world was set ablaze, a new order was rising to challenge the old; this era wouldn't be decided by ideologies alone but through the power of nations. The Era of Iron and Blood had begun; a New World Order had begun.

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