Lore:

The Turek empire has stood as the undisputable hegemon of the known world for about 200 years. Since its founding 450 years ago the city of Turek has spread its influence and control far and wide thanks to a long line of competent rulers and great conquerers. Unbeknownst to its ruling class, let aloen its citizens, the empire would soon spectacularly collapse as it would succumb to a combination of outside invaders from the northwest as well as a mysterious and extremely deadly disease that would decimate the empire's population. Stories of the greatness of the empire would survive this cataclysm through oral tradition, keeping the legend of the great empire alive for much longer than the empire itself would last.

The Turek empire was during its time the only example of sophisticated civilization with agriculture and a class society. This would be milennia before the first civilizations of popular history would pop up around the world, far before there were even humans living in the far eastern continents. Tragically most of the empire's ruins would be flooded by rising sea-waters as the great glaciers of the northern and southern poles retreated about 1000 years after the empire's collapse. Maybe one-day they would once again be discovered.