The World Before the Rift
Before the age of shadows, there were two worlds.
Two parallel realities existing beside one another, separated by a veil that had never been broken.
Republika.
A land of frontier life, monarchy, and human ambition. A world of kings and noble houses, settlers and explorers, merchants and soldiers. Towns grew along the frontier, kingdoms expanded their reach, and humanity believed it understood the limits of its own existence.
Magic was nothing more than a story.
Supernatural creatures were nothing more than legends.
The impossible was simply impossible.
But beyond the veil existed another reality.
Karimlan.
A hidden realm where ancient bloodlines carried the power of old gods. Where the Angkan protected ancestral lands. Where witches practiced forbidden arts, vampires lived beneath the shadows, and creatures from forgotten myths still walked the land.
For countless generations, the two worlds remained apart.
Not because they were meant to be separated…
But because they had to be.
Between them existed the Rift.
A wound in reality.
A doorway sealed by forces long forgotten.
A door that was never meant to open.
The First Rift
No king.
No warrior.
No chosen hero.
Just an ordinary man.
Elias.
A man who searched beyond the boundaries of the known world. A man who discovered something that should have remained hidden.
The Rift.
He did not know what lies beyond it.
He did not know what ancient forces were separated by that barrier.
He did not know that some doors were closed for a reason.
And when Elias crossed through…
The worlds changed forever.
The Rift opened.
For the first time in history, the two realities touched.
From Karimlan came beings humanity had only known through stories.
The Angkan.
Witches.
Vampires.
Spirits.
Creatures of darkness and legend.
They crossed into Republika.
And the impossible became real.
The Birth of Karimlan
At first, the arrival of the supernatural brought fear and conflict.
Humanity struggled to accept a world where myths walked beside them.
The supernatural struggled to find their place in a land that was never meant to know them.
There were battles.
There were losses.
There were those who believed the two worlds could never coexist.
But slowly, something unexpected happened.
Humans adapted.
The Angkan found new homes.
Old enemies found common ground.
Magic became part of everyday life.
The supernatural became more than legend.
Republika was no longer the world it once was.
A new era had begun.
A world where humanity and the supernatural existed together.
A world forever changed by the Rift.
The Age of Shadows
But the Rift was never a bridge.
It was a fracture.
And fractures only grow.
As the Rift remained open, the boundary between realities weakened.
Something ancient stirred beyond the veil.
Something that was never meant to return.
The Rift did not only allow beings to cross.
It allowed darkness to follow.
In one possible fate of Karimlan, the Rift grew beyond control.
The corruption spread.
The dead refused to remain buried.
Forests twisted into unnatural lands.
Ancient creatures awakened.
Cities fell silent.
The world that once embraced the supernatural became a battlefield for survival.
Humanity fought.
The Angkan fought.
But against the darkness beyond the Rift…
Everyone was losing.
Karimlan: Survive the Rift
In this parallel reality, Karimlan fell.
Not in one moment.
But slowly.
One abandoned town at a time.
One lost road at a time.
One forgotten home at a time.
Civilization collapsed.
The wilderness reclaimed the frontier.
The darkness consumed the land.
Until one place remained.
Guarma.
The last sanctuary.
An island untouched by the corruption, where the final survivors gathered.
But Guarma was never a victory.
It was only a final refuge.
The mainland still held everything they needed.
Food.
Medicine.
Resources.
Answers.
So survivors began crossing back into the ruins of Karimlan.
Into a world filled with monsters, corrupted lands, and forgotten secrets.
Some returned with supplies.
Some returned with relics.
Some returned changed.
Many never returned at all.
Across the Rift
The Rift connects more than places.
It connects possibilities.
Across countless parallel realities, every world has its own fate.
In one world, the supernatural entered humanity’s society and a new civilization was born.
In another, the Rift became an unstoppable force that brought civilization to its knees.
But both worlds share the same beginning.
One man.
One discovery.
One moment when humanity looked beyond the veil…
and found another world looking back.
KARIMLAN
Beyond the Veil
A world where mankind and the supernatural must learn to coexist.
Across the Rift
A world where mankind must fight to survive.
Two realities.
One Rift.
An endless story beyond the veil.
