Date: January 19, 2026
Article: S01
Going forward we will be including monthly story articles to introduce everyone to the world of Shattered Bounds and it’s history.
“ Long, long ago, when humans still walked among us and the world had not yet learned to break, the lands were broader than they are now, and the seas were held back by ancient hands. Mountains stood where waves now roll, and paths of stone and earth bound distant peoples together. In those days, the world breathed slowly. Time itself seemed thicker then, as though it wished to linger. We remember this not because it was written, but because its echoes remain – in songs half-forgotten, in ruins swallowed by water, and in stories told only when the fire burns low.
In that age, the great societies were guided by nine figures, remembered now only as the Wise, the Watchers, or the Nine – names shifting with the teller. They were not kings alone, nor gods, but something in between: leaders, scholars, and keepers of knowledge bound to the standing stones that rose across every land. These monoliths were older even than the Nine, their purpose debated even then. Some said they listened. Others said they slept. What is agreed upon is this: when the Nine gathered
their will and turned their knowledge toward the stones, the world changed its course. What followed is spoken of carefully. Some say the Nine sought to mend a growing fracture in the world. Others whisper that curiosity outpaced wisdom, and that a sealed power – never meant to be touched – was stirred.
The sky burned white. The seas rose. Lands vanished beneath the waves, and in a single breath, humanity was gone from our
side of the world. Whether they were taken, hidden, or sacrificed, no tale agrees. Only this remains certain: the flood did not simply drown the world – it divided it. And from that division, nothing has ever truly been whole again.”
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