The modern world as we know it, in the bustling metropolis of New York City. Or is it? Scrape the surface, walk into the wrong building, turn down a hidden alleyway, and one may discover the coursing veins of a mystical world.

But it wasn't always this way.

Even today, beings once plentiful and powerful are echoed in myths and fairy tales. Yet tens of thousands of years ago they were the sole rulers, as abundant as the magic upon which they depended.

Then came the age of man and everything changed. Magic dwindled, ancient races took sides, and the War of the Storms threatened to rend apart the very planet in its wake. To save themselves, half escaped to the sanctuary of the Bazaar and connected Nations, while those that remained went into hiding among the humans they’d tried to save.

The earth belonged to mankind now.