Beneath the Star of Jade

"In the heart of the world's waters, where three great currents would meet if not frozen by supernatural cold, rises an island wrapped in perpetual winter. Here, crystalline spires pierce the gray sky like frozen prayers, and the ground sparkles with ice that never melts..."

"I have witnessed much. Once, I was merely a fragment—a simple gemstone resting in the cosmic debris after the great Shattering, when the Unseen God's call awakened Ietherion itself and reshaped reality into four realms. I watched the first tribes emerge from the ashes of the old world, struggling to survive while dragons soared overhead, magnificent and terrible in their power."

"Fate, it seems, has quite the taste for dark humor—blessing the fortunate with power they cannot wield wisely, while cursing the unfortunate with wisdom they lack the power to implement."