Queensmarch

The Great War is finally over. The United Kingdoms - an alliance of the eastern lands ruled under the all powerful Queen Victallia graciously accepted a ceasefire pact with the westerly Borderland Liberation Alliance after more than ten years of bloody conflict that tore the land itself apart. Broken, exhausted and sick of conflict, the total destruction of a major city-state at the hands of an experimental weapon of mass destruction shook both sides, and shortly afterwards an uneasy ceasefire was achieved.   As peace-time life slowly returns to the world, those who survived the seemingly endless conflict are left to pick up the pieces of a world that is physically and emotionally scarred by new technologies and weapons of war and by the devastating losses that wiped out so many lives - civilian and military over the last decade.   Yet even now there are troubling stirrings. The magical element responsible for the death of tens of thousands in the City of Spires Incident is loosed on the known world. There is talk of a strange malady that has overcome the Queen herself, seemingly not seen in public for several months and in the shadow of this and other threats, a new, cold, war beckons as the seeds of a new conflict is growing between those opposed to mechanically enhanced magic and those who see it as the future of their world...