Hitokiri_Battou

In a Few Short Centuries, Industrial Civilization had spread from the Western fringes of Eurasia to Sprawl across he face of the planet. Plundering the soil of its riches, fouling the air, and remolding lifeforms at will, this gargantuan industrial society had already peaked a thousand years after its foundation: Ahead lay abrupt and violent decline. The cities burned, Welling clouds of poison in the war remembered as the Seven Days of Fire. The complex and sophisticated technological superstructure was lost; almost all the surface of Earth was transformed into a sterile wasteland. industrial civilization was never rebuild as mnkind lived on through the long Twilight Years...

A Thousand years had passed since the mammoth industrial civilizations of the pat had diminished and faded into the dark vastness of time. It was the closing of the Ceramic Era.

The Valley of the Wind was a small kingdom on the edge of the frontier given the frail protection against the poisons of the Sea of Corruption by the constant winds blowing through the kingdom.