The Second Equilibrium War had begun.
Yet its opening was unlike anything recorded in the histories of either the lower worlds or the higher realms.
No supreme sovereign launched the first attack.
No celestial army descended from the heavens.
No ancient weapon shattered reality with overwhelming force.
Instead, the beginning of the war arrived through something far more dangerous.
A connection.
Across countless ages, the higher realms had maintained their dominion through a single unshakable principle. Worlds were isolated from one another. Histories were erased before they could be shared. Civilizations were forced to rise and fall alone.
Separated worlds could never unite.
Separated survivors could never learn from one another.
Separated civilizations could never resist together.
That strategy had endured for eras beyond memory.
It had survived empires, sovereigns, monarchs, and entire cosmic ages.
