Everwinter was a cold world, frozen and dead. The nations of this world used the might of Suimveir to hold the eternal freeze at bay. But the Suimveir was limited, and each of the Grand Abbies who used it could only keep winter at bay in small regions of the world. Travel between these regions was difficult at best, impossible if one was unlucky or chose to travel during the Blizzard Season. Legends tell of a world warm and vast, and the Ruins of the World that Was back these legends with solid structures that soar into the sky, far taller than any modern tower. But whatever trick these people had that let them warm their world had been lost in an age long past, and only the "Child of Summer" could tell of it. But nobody knew who Summer was or when they had lived or if they had ever existed at all, for this was Everwinter... a cold world.