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 "Re-enter The Realm Of Vandal-Hearts And Experience A Storyline Where Politics And Religion Collide In A World Of Conflict And Terror." "Long ago, the foolish race of Man stole the seed of the Lifetree from the Garden of the Gods and used its celestial powers to build an empty paradise. There they squandered their days in pursuit of decadent pleasures and sinful ways and lived their lives however their desires led them. God was not to be mocked. He sent great hardships to the land to cleanse away the evil and bestowed on Nirvath the Divine a sacred sword, forged with miraculous powers. God bid him save the handful of people who had preserved piety in their hearts. Aided by the power of the sacred sword, Nirvath led the blessed few to unspoiled land after a long and difficult journey. The sword, with the last of its power used, shattered into a thousand pieces. Scattered throughout the world, each pieve is said to have become the first of every weapon known to mankind. Following the journey, Nirvath led his people in conquering regional clans and building a nation that became the giant Nirvadia Church State claiming dominion over all of the Rognant Continent. Under the banner of the Nirvadia Church State and its founder St. Nirvath, the continent knew nothing but peace for age after age. However, soon after the Holy Year 300, the State found its authority threatened by repeated attacks from infidel forces and the swelling ranks of saboteur monks. What the State lost, regional lairds and great seigneurs gained in the form of greater autonomy and ambition. Small-scale territorial skirmishes became commonplace. Eventually, this bred a climate leading to regional strife in the Great Theological Polemic. A strife which in turn, in the Holy Year 425 A.S., escalated into a war raged through the entire continent of Rognant. The war, which was to later be called "The War of Separation," ended in the signing of the peace treaty of Fergatha, approved by Pope Lopeth IV. Under the treaty, some thirty regions were recognized as independent sovereign states, effectively dismantling the Nirvadia Church State. In the generations that followed, these infant states opted for limited reunification again and again through war and sovereign marriages, thus ushering in the current era of four great powers (Kingdom of Natra, The Church State of Nirvadia, Republic of Vernantze, and Zora-Archeo Twin Empire)." |
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