The First Fracture
"Before the Veil, the world pulsed with an unbridled symphony of emotion. Joy, sorrow, rage, love – they flowed unbound, a vibrant, chaotic tapestry woven into the very air. Humanity lived in a raw, unfiltered state, their souls laid bare to the world's every feeling. It was a time of immense beauty and profound suffering, of soaring highs and crushing lows, with no barrier to soften the impact.
Then came the Great Emotional Shift.
It began subtly, a tremor in the collective consciousness, a dissonance in the world's emotional harmony. A being, driven by a profound, ancient trauma and a desperate desire for ultimate peace, sought to silence the chaos. They believed that by severing the ties to intense feeling, suffering could be eradicated. They reached for a power beyond comprehension, a cosmic loom that wove the very essence of souls.
The attempt failed catastrophically.
Instead of silence, the world screamed. The raw, uncontained emotions, violently severed from their natural flow, erupted. Joy splintered into manic euphoria, sorrow congealed into suffocating despair, rage ignited into destructive fury. The very air thickened, congealing into a perpetual, shimmering mist – the Veil. It was a physical manifestation of the world's fractured soul, a barrier born of cataclysm, trapping humanity within its emotional echoes.
From that day, the Veil became the world. It muted sound, obscured sight, and distorted feeling. And within its depths, the raw, untamed emotions of humanity took on tangible form: the Eidolons. They were the world's open wounds, manifestations of unchecked despair, fear, and rage, feeding on the very feelings that birthed them.
This is the story of a world living in the shadow of that first fracture. A world where emotions are both a blessing and a curse. And of a Soul Weaver, born with an extraordinary empathy, who will seek to mend the Veil, to restore the balance, and to sing a requiem for despair."