Cradle of Starlight

Most Wists deny that history is, in fact, written by the winners.

For years, perhaps centuries, the Wists have always been Miranomiya's winners. Always. They are the ones with the big palace, the golden-clad army, the shining pavilions and the polished schools. The Aisi and the Nenans living under them are the ones who lose, the ones who are misfortunate enough to be written as footnotes in every school textbook.

In fact, the Aisi have been completely written out of the books, ever since the Wists exterminated them a mere four years ago. That doesn't mean that history ended for them.

A new school year is already starting in Miranomiya, even amidst a sudden uptick in violent attacks among the Wists' higher classes. Many nobles fear sending their children to Sunrise Academy- many voice fears that an angry Nenan may somehow wander up from lower down in the city, or that an Aisi will suddenly rise from the dead and attack the school's fortified walls.

Zari, the crown princess of the Wists, has no such fear. She claims she would walk towards an Aisi with open arms. There are questions as to how this claim hasn't yet killed her.

She does, however, have to challenge her idealistic beliefs, as soon as she sees the first body drop during the school year.