In the far west of clashing steppes and desert mountains is the region of Ilabat, a region of ethnic diversity and universal poverty, ruled by an ambitious councilor turned corrupt Magister whose knee bent for Empire that gave him power, but by the time the Magister saw his control slipping it had become too late, and in his desperation he militarized the region, causing the people to fight back. Igniting a brutal war of clans, classes and Empires fighting for control and for ILABAT.