This seems to be an era of steel.
As if overnight, the familiar world on this land underwent a seismic change.
Just last year, people were living the same unchanging lives for hundreds of years: commoners worked the soil, rising with the sun and resting with its descent; knights rode around the castles, displaying their valor; and noble lords and ladies indulged in never-ending feasts, while the countryside taverns were filled with absurd tales of dark magic, wizards, non-human monsters, and warriors. Everyone lived as they always had, a century ago, two centuries ago, without deviation.
