The world of the Dark Shard is a fallen world. Once a veritable utopia, enjoying the confluence of magic and steel; memories of these better days are now barely myth and legend. The landscape is scattered with the remains of those bygone days. While life in the cities is far from
Long since have the people posted their souls as collateral for the Lich Queen's Faustian Bargain. Even those who escape her daily machinations, know that they live solely by avoiding her attentions.