It was in the year 18, 987 C.B. that the Emperor Sixth took the world by storm, and conquered it in a single day and night, but against him stood the might of the Universities, legends of eras before the birth of Cnaient, and a strange romance of two young students of gamic, one named Thorn, an average man beginning to learn of what he might one day be able to do, and the remarkable Tabitha, able to see the future and the past with remarkable clarity.