"The journey to the afterlife is a perilous one. Stretching for eternity between Heaven and Hell lies the Endless Stair. Constructed over aeons in time immemorial, the staircase delivers the souls of the dead to their final judgement. A mishmash of millions of makers over millions of years, this path has become the center of the universe, stretching from the far celestial heights above to the infernal realms below, and all worlds in between.
It is somewhere in between these worlds that we come to the Endless Stair. With a barren wasteland before us and the staircase stretching to infinity into the heavens, a stooped figure slowly clambers upwards and sets foot on the dusty, rocky floor.
Strange symbols flash in the sky like lightning as the dark figure reaches into a pocket and casts a handful of twisted bones onto the ground. For an instant nothing, then a slight rumble as a crack slowly appears in the rock and snakes its way across the ground......."