Blackstone Fortress.
Twenty-one years had passed since the Plane Rift was torn open at Eagle's Beak Peak, an upheaval that changed the landscape of the Continent.
The soldiers who once fought and bled here had been replaced by generation after generation. The tragedy and glory of that time had mostly settled into a few blurry lines in dusty archives, or the slurred ramblings of old veterans after a few drinks.
The Castile Kingdom, which had once exerted immense pressure from across the Iron Ridge Mountain Range, was quickly abandoned as a scapegoat by other Wizard Organizations after that catastrophe.
Under the Church Court's encirclement, the Tower of Secret Silver suffered devastating losses, reduced to a minor organization with not even a single Official Wizard left.
