In the year 2012, a mysterious illness began to sweep the globe. In its wake, those who survived it were left with immensely powerful supernatural abilities.
As the number of people capable of wielding magic powers increased, they began to organize and seize control of the course of history. Using their powers to travel between parallel universes, these mages forge empires of a scale never before seen. And at the center of it all is the Academy, a neutral institution founded for mages to share their knowledge with each other.
Mages struggle against each other to impose their will upon the multiverse, but there is one threat that unites them all together. In recent months, mysterious entities have appeared. These entities wield power far greater than any one mage, and they seem determined to annihilate all of humanity. The mages will have to set aside their differences in order to beat them. The fate of the multiverse depends on it.
Nine years before the War of the Ring and the Fall of Sauron.
There is a dark power rising in the East, and the rulers of the kingdoms of men are corrupted. Theoden, King of Rohan, has recently come under the spell of the White Wizard Saruman. In the great Kingdom of Gondor, the city of Minas Tirith is falling apart from the inside out as the Steward, Denethor, turns his gaze more often upon the Palantir which is under the watchful eye of Sauron.
Everyone knows the story of the Fellowship. The tales no one has heard are of the every day folk of Middle Earth, who fought great battles in small ways. Come write their story!