A beginning is a very delicate time. Know then, that in this year 12198 that all of Oerth will shake as the greatest army ever imagined on Oerth begins to take its first steps in the Flanaess. Not far from where you are now an army of untold size, unforeseen potential, and insatiable hunger amasses in the dark places of the world. Even now as you go on about your daily life the threat of this army grows ever nearer to thee. Yet all is not lost, for it is when things appear to be their darkest that man can shine his brightest.