"Power was not born. It was taken—ripped from the gods of war and sealed in bloodlines."
The world as it once was is no more.
A century ago, the Earth was scorched in a conflict that came to be known simply as The Great War—a cataclysmic clash between nations drunk on power and desperate for dominance. It was a war not fought with armies alone, but with secrets born from mankind's final forbidden frontier: Ability Genesis.
At first, it was science. Gene editing, quantum resonance, neural rewiring. A race to build super-soldiers. But then, something fractured.
In the heart of the war's final year, the skies tore open above Eurasia. No one knows whether it was divine retribution or human recklessness, but the rift unleashed what would later be called The Catalyst Storm—a surge of otherworldly energy that swept across the globe. Millions perished. But for a rare few, their blood changed.
From the ashes, Abilities emerged.
They were not evenly distributed. Instead, they rooted themselves in the survivors of the Catalyst Storm, etching themselves into their very DNA, awakening latent potential, rewriting human limitations. These survivors became the Founding Bloodlines—humans made more.
Each family manifested a unique supernatural trait—passed down through generations, refined and inherited. Abilities could not be chosen. They were fate. And fate became power.
Some families learned to manipulate elements—flames that obeyed thought, lightning that danced in their veins. Others could bend perception, shatter sound, distort gravity. A few rare bloodlines held stranger gifts still: time-bending instincts, beasts born of will, regenerative flesh that defied death itself.
Civilization rebuilt itself around these new pillars of strength. Governments collapsed, borders blurred, and in their place arose the United Global Authority (UGA)—a coalition born of necessity, forged to preserve order in a world teetering on the edge of chaos.
The UGA instituted a Global Ranking System, assigning numerical and letter-based designations to every individual based on the potency of their inherited Ability. At the top stood the S-Rank Sovereigns, less than 0.001% of the population. Living weapons. Symbols of fear—and hope.
The most powerful families became aristocracies in all but name, ruling over sectors and cities. These clans—the Twelve High Houses—hoarded influence and heritage, passing their legacies to their children like crowns of war.
Among them were names whispered with reverence or dread:
House Vire, erased from history after the war, said to command a power that defied all understanding.
House Arkwright, masters of lightning-born mobility and kinetic dominance.
House Sanguine, feared bloodbinders who controlled life and death.
House Dain, elemental manipulators capable of reshaping battlefields.
House Kuroda, shadows given form, assassins turned noble.
And many more, each with their own sigils, customs, and secret legacies.
To maintain peace—and control—the UGA mandated the formation of the Regis Institute, a compulsory military academy where every seventeen-year-old would be tested, trained, and ranked. The institute is where allegiances are formed, hierarchies forged, and failures discarded.
Yet not all are born into legacy. Not all have a name.
Some are born into silence, into absence, into nothing.
And sometimes... from nothing rises the greatest storm of all.