Five hundred years ago, Escaia was at its peak in technological advancement. Machines that could do your work for you, airships and trains, both above ground and aquatic took you anywhere in the world you wanted to go. Two-thirds of the world were covered in thriving cities filled with people. In fact, the world soon became so overpopulated that there was not enough land for houses to be built on, and soon, not enough animals for the people to eat. Escaia started to become desperate, for every day more and more people starved to death, and crime hit an all time high as people resorted to thieving and murder just to feed their families.

Then a scientist named Dr. Venour Auliffe tried to find a way to turn grass and minerals into food. He'd sit in his lab in Terrovana, an island that was the of Escaia at the time. No one knows what he did in there, but one day he let loose a gas that almost destroyed the world. It killed the entire population of Terrovana in three days, then it started in spread to the other cities. The surrounding flora and fauna were affected in a different way, instead of dying, they mutated, leaving giant carnivorous flowers, and crossed-species animals that bred at an alarming rate. Only four cities survived, as they had ways to avoid the gas. Danalion and Ursitrova had underground neighborhoods the population could hide in. Sararnini had an underwater area the people fled to, and a portion of Olvarnias was high enough to avoid the gas.

The few people who avoided the gas had enough food to live by, but just barely. This is how the people of Escaia lived for the next hundred years, isolated from each other, and surviving instead of living. Then a young man named Luther Kinealy from Olvarnias decided that he didn't want to live the rest of his life that way. So he fixed up an old airship, and left the only home he ever knew with a small group of friends. He discovered that the gas had dissipated, and the air was clean. He flew to all the remaining cities and convinced them that the air was safe, and opened up communication and trade between the cities. He returned to Olvarnias a hero, and was named Emperor, and created the Council as secondary ruling body, and appointed his friends as Councilors. He helped all four cities get back on their feet, and with the overpopulation of the animals, they soon flourished again, with Olvarnias as the new capitol.

The dead cities remained abandoned, and all travel was done by airship. Soon, brave people began to visit these cities full of dangerous plants and animals, and who knows what else, in hopes of finding technology and other useful items. These people became known as Scavengers, and though they helped the cities by recovering these items, they were snubbed at by the wealthier population and are considered no better than pirates. For some people, being a Scavenger is a calling to adventure, and for some, its the only thing that puts bread on the table.


Four hundred years after Emperor Luther Kinealy was crowned, Emperor Mordecai Kinealy passed away from a sudden illness. His only child and heir, Lenora Kinealy is set to have her official coronation in three days. Unbeknownst to her, High Councilor Julius Magan poisoned her father and caused his death, and now he wants to dispose of her so he can be Emperor. Since she is young and inexperienced in ruling a country, the High Councilor has swayed the council to his way of thinking, causing a conspiracy against the Empress.

It will start with Lenora's maidservant overhearing a conversation about this, then smuggling the Empress out of the palace in disguise. Lenora will wander into the Airship District where she runs into Scavengers, who owned the Anima Caeli Airship. who are going to the Terrovana ruins and are hiring a cook for their crew. She signs up, hoping that they'll find a piece of revolutionary technology that will convince the Council that she could be a good ruler.








































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