The fifth age of Amaura drew its name from the Fathom Throne Prophecy that had predicted the end of the world. Many Amaurans took the mercy of the God as a pardon for their slaughtering of his people centuries prior, even daring to ask if they too could know Him with the intimacy the Seafolk had once claimed. Corrupt organizations, bastions of evil, and cruel governments were shed from the nations like sand from the shore. And the world experienced its first deep breath of peace and goodness since time immemorial.

   For some, this second deliverance from the Nautilus Pieces and the sighting of the Sea God, suggested that the world was living in a post-judgment world. Since the Harvest Massacres, no event in history had divided the peoples of Amaura quite like this idea of a real God of the Sea. And the inquiries into the efficacy of the Heroes' journey led to an inquisitive and cynical frenzy which gave birth to a new period of intellectual worship...