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.
The craggy Ziolarri Desert is populated by ghost towns. These towns are called "rebesadis" by locals -- literally, "the overrun". If sandstorms and the inhospitable nature of the desert didn't force residents to seek greener lands, the war that encroached on Voluzione decades ago is to blame. Abandoned military outposts and tangled, barbed wire fences can be found in deserted city squares, dried-up wells and fallen utility poles indicating some prosperity and intended permanence before the towns were left to the whims of nature. A common feature in many ghost towns is the Lualdian prison -- a twenty-foot tall, five to ten feet wide building made of dark steel with no entrances save for somehow surmounting the spikes at the top of the walls. Sunlight reflects into the roofless building, especially at noon, rendering it much hotter and torturous to be inside for too long. Wherever there stands a Lualdian prison, the Lualdians once made their march on the people of Voluzione decades ago, and the remains of whatever was tossed into the prisons are often still there to this day.
