Birth // Origin Fragment
Once, perhaps, you lived an ordinary life — warm lights, familiar skies. Those memories mean nothing here.
You awaken in a world unrecognizable — a corpse of creation where stone and sinew have merged, and the soil itself hums with the residue of a forgotten age. The air stinks of rusted blood and the quiet persistence of things that should not be.
Each ruin you pass whispers of the civilizations that came before — their monuments now overgrown with living metal and parasitic growth. Nothing stands still. Nothing remains pure. Gather what survivors you can, and press forward — not for salvation, but for understanding.