"This is a golden age, a gilded time - a period of slaughter, carnage, and war unending. It is an age of profit and prejudice. A time of sordid decisions, insidious treachery, and boundless opportunity. In this land of mighty lords and vile blackguards, the names of those in the shadows of titans can often sift out of the murky mire - be they praised or cursed - and in such sanguine years, the Ostland shall sire them as never before."