"Know, oh Little Prince Cunego, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Astana, there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars – Nemedia, Ophir, Wallonia, Hyperborea, San Remo, Zamora… But the proudest kingdom of the world was Aquilonia, reigning supreme in the dreaming west. Hither came Big Aloha, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, on the tops, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies, and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the VDS game under his sandalled feet." - REH