The First Age

There are precious few records of what is known to be The First Age.

Most of the Realm's records speak of the rule of the Scarlet Empress and of her rule that lasted almost eight hundred years.  It was her actions, with the assistance of the Immaculate Order, that saved the Realm itself from the cruel tragic events of the earlier time.

That time, was a time when a Great Contagion killed nearly 90% of the world's populace. Between the massive deaths of the Great Contagion and the chaos that overwhelmed the world, the Fair Folk closed in to consume the world.  These are collectively remember as the Age of Sorrows.

But if one looked far back, to the time prior to the Age of Sorrows, one would hear of the Shogunate.    During the Shogunate, various Terrestrial daimyos squabbled over control of the Realm.   For centuries the Dragon-Blooded fought amongst themselves over ever dwindling supplies of magical devices and resources, obfuscating these reasons for the fighting behind obscure ideologies started by long dead leaders.

The rulership of Creation was held by a loose confederacy of daimyos who squabbled amongst themselves except for times when a single strong shogun unified them. This lead to a shuddering at the borders of Creation as armies of Fair Folk breeched the boundaries of reality to invade and sow chaos.

Few know of the history before the Shogunate.
Few know of the Solar Exalted and how a Solar Deliberative once watched over all of Creation.
Few know of the massive war that threatened to destroy everything that existed both in Creation and in the lands of the Gods.
Few know of the Prophecy.  Of the betrayals.   And why the Sun itself once turned away.

And only two actually know of the Great Curse.
One of them being the thing that made the Curse.
The other...

These secrets lie in the ruins of the First Age.

These secrets, if found, can help the Solar Exalted regain what they have lost.
And repair the damage they have also done.