In a small shack, there is a child who listens carefully to an ancient history told by her mother.

A long long time ago, mankind was still prosperous and the world government system was still functioning as it should to protect and control society. The era when a human "male" and a human "female" were still living together in the same city. Although they weren't interested in each other, they're living in harmony and covering each other gender shortcomings. Soon after, when the gaps became too wide between the high class and civilians, the system collapsed. Basic needs along with living expenses escalated while minimum wage couldn't catch up on the rise. It created an uproar and in the long run, productivity was declining and daily goods became scarce. This desolate was worsened by the fact a political situation heats up between "Elyphian" and "Mortan".

Elyphian is a society that relies on magic or spiritual elements in their daily life, while Mortan uses technology and a huge population to prevail. Humanity has fallen to a new low when the world government system could no longer avoid the clash. The biggest world war in history erupted, the clash began to spread through the entire world leaving only 20% population of the world. This event was known by the next generation as "The Great War". Historians said that many Elyphians is murdered during the war and were almost extinct. The remaining Elyphians went to a faraway land and hide theme selves away from civilization. It was told and written in Mortan history that they won The Great War.

The remaining Mortan try to live their lives with the limited resource that they can collect from what’s remaining after the war, but find themselves only left with nuclear radiation and expansive dead land.

The mother continues the story to her little daughter:

Don't know exactly when and why, but mortan starts to have numbered birthmarks on their bodies soon after The Great War ended. Many people said it's the curse bestowed by Elyphians. The birthmark warns us about our past sins and the consequences of what we will do in the future. Our soul will be left the body when the birthmark went down to zero, in other words, we died. Our Central Government conveys that there are 10 commandments to follow so we could be saved from sins. The top 3 commandments are:

1. Thou shalt not against heavenly principle (Central Government). Penalty: Death

2. Thou shalt not have sex with the opposite sex. Moreover, give birth to new Sins. Penalty: Death.

3. Honour thy ruler, remember to report every Holy Sunday. Penalty: -1 point for each negligence.

A heresy from the orphanage said that Elyphian cast a spell and cursed us with our numbered birthmark. They put their seeds to Mortan's future generation, seeking revenge and revival of Elyphians. When the forbidden relationship gave birth to a child, an elyphian will be born. That Elyphian baby will bring chaos to Mortan, causing havoc with their wicked magic. After all, all newborn Mortan should come from holy storks. The storks found babies in the soul stream. The source of a soul stream may be a lake, a marsh, a spring, a glacier, or a collection of headwaters. Later, the babies would then be given to an orphanage, so they will be nurtured into adulthood. They will become an adult on their 15th birthday.

Every adult mortan, both male and female should contribute to central government if they want to live. Every contribution counts will be added to the birthmark, but each day at 00.00 AM, it will lose one of its amounts. The first Sunday of a month will be a Holy Sunday, where mortan report their existence to Central Government through the orphanage. Everyone still needs to get some real money for daily goods and meals, or even use their hard earning money to fill up their birthmarks.

Well, dear, my beloved daughter... As the child of a historian, I hope you can remember what happened in the past, so you can learn from it. Let yourself have your critical thinking and always try to determine the authenticity of any historical events. The daughter who is previously looked sleepy now had fallen asleep listening to her mother's story. The mother then wrapped her with a warm blanket and leave the bedroom.

This is what Eris dreams when she is asleep, thinking about the day when her parents were still alive.