The year was 1595, twenty-three years after the outbreak of the Continental War, a conflict which had already claimed the lives of around thirty million people. In Derohak, the capital of the province with the same name, lived a young girl by the name of Vivian Rohe. Vivian was a shy but charismatic girl, and although she tried to view the world with optimism, she couldn't help but be afraid of what it had come to. On one morning, just before Vivian's 17th birthday, her parents received a letter from the Zethean Imperial Government containing a conscription notice under the Second Enlistment Act of 1595. Despite Vivian begging her folks to stay, William and Alissa couldn't defy the orders of the Government without facing serious repercussions. Later that same week, they were on a train to the North of the country, near the frontier with Sartheria. Merely two weeks after they left, Vivian celebrated her 17th alone.

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