The Arcane Age is over. The sky is grown grey across the Continent of Ternia. The Coalition is broken. And may forever be broken. On the day the event known as the Cataclysm, everything the people of the seven nations knew, ended that day, ushering in the Age of Ruin. When the Council of Owls, the supreme authority on magic, masters of the arcane, leaders of the Republic of Tagoth Fens, caused the catastrophe, it not only obliterated those living in and destroyed the capital city of Tagoth Prime, but in the days after, more dominoes fell, killing millions. It brought ruin to the collection of allied countries known as the Coalition of the Seven.