Once trapped in linearity, Lualdi now lives its grim past, its torrential present, and its cataclysmic future all at once. Second by second, the region marches towards a seemingly inevitable apocalypse that is shrouded in enigma not for what it will do, but why. The answers to the mysteries surrounding the impending calamity may lie deeper in the reaches of time than any may expect -- and somewhere with them is the answer to if Lualdi can even be saved or if it should be abandoned to its fate. But whatever you do, do so quickly... The apocalypse will not wait for you to make up your mind.
In centuries past, the low, whirlpool-laden sea surrounding Boscuro's islands was land itself, and it shows in how, to this day, especially resilient jungle trees and ruins reach out of the churning water. On rare occasions that the tide recedes enough, these ruins are even explorable, though waterlogged -- thus their modern name of "Smerso," meaning "submerged". The inner parts of the stone ruins are deep and labyrinthine, smelling of sea water and rotting jungle wood. Despite researchers' best efforts, the inner parts of the Smerso Ruins have never been fully mapped out, and the unpredictability of the tides around Boscuro make it dangerous to explore the ruins too deeply or for too long. All it takes is a rush of water, and would-be explorers find themselves trapped in a rapidly-flooding ruin with no way out.
