When the installer finally finished, it didn't launch the game. Instead, it spat out a final, glorious line of green text:
"RISE NOW, YE TARNISHED."
KaOs. The name itself was a double-edged greatsword. To the uninitiated, it was chaos. To the faithful, it was a promise: We will shrink the gods themselves.
This was the Lands Between as a fever dream.