In the beginning, there were three. A thousand years before, before man learned of Olympus, before the extinction of the giants, before the sea had fully regressed, there were three. Three great cities dividing the world tripartite.

And the Shining Eye of the Empire rose as Bumaro took his anointed Seat on the Fuladh Throne. Amoni-Ram rose from the sands on the back of MEKHANE, her Pieces scattered to the six winds and the five corners of the world.

The First War raged across the continent in every theater. Fleets of golden-hulled warships were constructed in Amoni-Ram and pushed downriver to encounter the Covenant in the Bay.