Our Backstory?

[2005Guyver02]

I was wondering if there was going to be a backstory for our (aka the player) character?

Where did He/She come from? 
Was it the same world, a "Other World (isikai)" or a parallel world?
Was our character behind a computer and got sucked into the screen?
Did they have an accident or were about to have an accident and wound up there?
Did they have amnesia and woke up from a form of cryo sleep, and sleep walked to the starting area in that seed?

Just throwing some Ideas out there.

Edited October 10 by 2005Guyver02

[LadyWYT]

Welcome to the forums!

57 minutes ago, 2005Guyver02 said:

I was wondering if there was going to be a backstory for our (aka the player) character?

There already is such. If you play through the game's story, you'll uncover some key details that are hinted at in class selection, but not otherwise explained. Some things are also left up to the player's own imagination. To begin the main story, simply do a small favor for your friendly local treasure hunter to acquire a map to the first location. Do note that in order to do the story content though, you must be playing with lore content enabled(so no Homo Sapiens mode).

If you want spoilers, without spoiling the entire story:

1 hour ago, 2005Guyver02 said:

Where did He/She come from? 

Spoiler

Our world. Presumably from Europe, Western/Central Asia, the Middle East, or potentially North Africa, since these are the most prominent locations that have been mentioned. But in any case, the player is a seraph--a type of superhuman--and not plainly human anymore.

 

1 hour ago, 2005Guyver02 said:

Was it the same world, a "Other World (isikai)" or a parallel world?

Spoiler

It's our world, specifically from the 12-1400s, roughly. There's a few creative liberties taken with the course of history, of course, such as cataclysmic events that killed most of humanity and scrambled geography. 

 

1 hour ago, 2005Guyver02 said:

Was our character behind a computer and got sucked into the screen?

Spoiler

While there is fancy steampunk tech, there's nothing that resembles what we think of as a computer. It's all clockwork.

 

1 hour ago, 2005Guyver02 said:

Did they have an accident or were about to have an accident and wound up there?

Spoiler

Basically, there was a guy named Jonas Falx, who built a grand machine to save what was left of humanity from a terrible plague of unknown origin. It broke the world in the process and caused some(ie, the players) to become "lost in time" until recently.

 

1 hour ago, 2005Guyver02 said:

Did they have amnesia and woke up from a form of cryo sleep, and sleep walked to the starting area in that seed?

Spoiler

Amnesia seems to be one of the primary side effects of being lost in time and turning into a seraph. It's also a rather convenient plot device to keep the story a surprise and let the player uncover the full lore for themselves as the events unfold, as well as a way to explain a newer player's lack of knowledge about the lore.

In any case though, it's canon that the player character literally poofs into existence at the spawn point for that seed, and remains tied to that specific point of time(ie, respawning if they suffer fatal damage) unless they use a temporal gear to change that binding to a different location.

 

[Teh Pizza Lady]

1 hour ago, 2005Guyver02 said:

I was wondering if there was going to be a backstory for our (aka the player) character?

Where did He/She come from? 
Was it the same world, a "Other World (isikai)" or a parallel world?
Was our character behind a computer and got sucked into the screen?
Did they have an accident or were about to have an accident and wound up there?
Did they have amnesia and woke up from a form of cryo sleep, and sleep walked to the starting area in that seed?

Just throwing some Ideas out there.

Every player class has a backstory. You just need to play the story chapters to figure out what it is. Each class's backstory is unique to that class.

As for your questions. No, there's no Isekai involved. The player character comes from the same world, they're just... different. Everything is explained when you play the story. As @LadyWYT said, just talk to a Treasure Hunter trader (make sure you are on Standard difficulty first) to start the grand quest line that will answer all your questions. So far only 2 of 8 planned chapters have been implemented and I heard a rumor that Chapter 3 is going to be introduced within the next few updates.

I would highly recommend avoiding any spoilers from YouTube or the such if you want to truly experience it the same way the rest of us did for the first time. Obviously, we can answer any questions you have along the way.

Good luck and happy exploring!

[Zaph42nd]

On 10/9/2026 at 10:05 PM, 2005Guyver02 said:

I was wondering if there was going to be a backstory for our (aka the player) character?

Where did He/She come from? 
Was it the same world, a "Other World (isikai)" or a parallel world?
Was our character behind a computer and got sucked into the screen?
Did they have an accident or were about to have an accident and wound up there?
Did they have amnesia and woke up from a form of cryo sleep, and sleep walked to the starting area in that seed?

Just throwing some Ideas out there.

Really not too much backstory aside from what your class could say or what you interpret your role as a player to be in the world; however, I think that's deliberate to encourage the player to role-play and find their own identity in game, especially in a server context....

[V1ncent]

By the way, there is the Story Excerpt content in the Media tab of this website, and you can get some flavor of the player character setting out of that.

[River Oak]

i haven't played any of the story yet and don't intend to until the entire thing is finished, but my pet theory is that the Seraphs are like the Wizards from The Lord of the Rings; Angels sent by God to fix things but without any memory of being angels because that would be over-powered or something.

[Mark Watton]

Yer an angel, Harry!

[2005Guyver02]

The reason why I initially asked is because I wanted to create some lyrics to an opening soundtrack for a stream (Approx 5 - 7 min long, so that I can make sure things are working and loading before starting the gameplay)

This is all I have so far (and wanted to know a bit more, so that I could create the rest of the lyrics):
 

Vintage Story ((Robotic, Country, Synth Wav, Overlaping voices, Trance) Mix Version)

[Instrumental]

[Chorus]
Once upon a time in our Prime
We got sucked into the sands of time
There we lost our memory
We emerge and ponder on our history
We appear to be a commoner
At least we are not a gardener
Though with nothing in our inventory
So let's start our Vintage Story

[Verse 1]

[Chorus]

[Verse 2]

[Chorus]

[Bridge]

[Chorus]

[Verse 3]

[Chorus]

[Post-chorus]
Watch our for the bear
Please stay safe out there

[END]
Whatever you are

[LadyWYT]

2 hours ago, 2005Guyver02 said:

This is all I have so far (and wanted to know a bit more, so that I could create the rest of the lyrics)

I would say that what you have so far fits pretty well. I'd recommend playing through the story to figure out the rest. Without spoiling too much though, there's really not a whole more to really add, since we're only on chapter two of a planned eight chapters. So there's a whole lot that we just don't know yet.