God was not to be mocked thus, and He sent great hardships to the land to cleanse away the evil; at the same time, He bestowed to Nirvath the Divine a sacred sword, forged within it miraculous powers, and bid him save the handful of people who had preserved piety in their hearts.
Aided by the power of the sacred sword, Nirvath led the blessed few to unsullied land after a long and difficult journey. The sword, the last of its powers used, shattered into a thousand pieces, each of which, scattered throughout the world, is said to have become the first of every weapon known to mankind.
Following the journey, Nirvath led his people in conquering regional clans and building a nation that was to become the giant Nirvadia Church State that claimed dominion over all of the Rognant Continent. Under the banner of the Nirvadia Church State and of its founder St. Nirvath, the continent knew naught but peace for age after age.
However, soon after the Holy Year 300, the State found its authority whittled down by repeated attacks from infidel forces and the swelling ranks of saboteur monks. What the State lost, regional lairds and great seigneurs gained in form of greater autonomy and ambition, and small-scale territorial skirmishes became commonplace. Eventually, this bred a climate that led to regional strife in the Great Theological Polemic, a strife which in turn, in the Holy year 425 A.S., escalated into a war that raged through the entire continent of Rognant.
The war, which was to be later called �The War of Separation�, ended in the signing of the peace treaty of Fergatha, approved by Pope Lopeth IV. Under the treaty, some thirty regions were recognised as independent sovereign states, effectively dismantling the Nirvadia Church State. In the generations that followed, these infant states opted for limited reunification again and again through war and sovereign marriages, thus ushering in the current era of four great powers (Kingdom of Natra, The Church State of Nirvadia, Republic of Venantze, and Zora-Archeo Twin Empire).
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Rating 11+
One player
Two memory blocks
One disc
Type: Strategy RPG
Battle System: Strategic/simultaneous movement
By Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo
Platform: Sony Playstation
120 unique weapon and armour classes
A plot steeped in intregue and bubbling with betrayal
In depth character development with career paths
Sophisticated tactical combat across detailed 3D battlefields