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The Confluence was a cataclysm without precedent. A magical storm of enormous scale swept across the world when the imaginary realm collided with physical reality, transforming everything it touched in ways that were frequently fatal. A small number of human communities survived, drawn by a mysterious pull to converge on the peninsula that would become Asgartha, where they built a civilization together over the following five centuries. Now, at 500 years after the Confluence, humanity is ready to look beyond Asgartha's boundaries again. The world outside remains in a state of constant instability called the Tumult, which renders most of it too hostile for standard exploration. The answer is the Exalts: paired scouts who have mastered Alteration — the ability to materialize imagination within reality — and who use captured Mana to navigate environments that would be lethal to anyone else. The Rediscovery Endeavor sends these teams out to map what survived and to search for the original source of the Tumult, which if found might allow the chaos to be permanently ended.