The people of Naer have long borne the weight of the "Blessing of Naer"—a cruel curse that demands they consume Bloodstone daily, lest their bodies dissolve into crimson water. To sustain its people, the Queendom of Naer established a system of daily Bloodstone rationing. Yet, as their reserves dwindled, they waged desperate wars of conquest to seize more, only to be crushed by the allied forces of the surrounding nations.

Unable to watch her people perish, Naer’s Black Queen made the ultimate sacrifice. She offered her own body to forge the Starfall Gate and tear open the fabric of time, casting some of her people into the past and future in search of the truth behind their curse—and a cure. With the Black Queen gone, "Crow" led Naer’s remnants fight against the invading monarchs and their own relentless curse. But fate was merciless—twelve years after the Starfall Gate opened, Naer fell in the Great Purge.

Naer fell, its people erased in the Great Purge—only the Starfall Gate remained. For forty years, Starfall Travelers descended from the heavens, bearing the same curse as the lost Naerians. With Neir’s fallen capital at its doorstep, Allua, as the rightful heir of conquest, laid claim to the lands of the Starfall Gate, yet the eyes of many crowns lingered upon it, wary and covetous. From its shadow rose Stawatch keep, forged by a pact of nations and creeds—the Starfall Gate Concord.