On the island world of Atum, a precursor to the BergRing, once stood the Kingdom of the Paperkings. It rose among ruined libraries and endless white deserts made of forgotten archives. Everything in this realm was made of pages, ink, and folded knowledge. The Paperkings were living manuscripts. Their bodies were layered sheets of written memory, and their crowns were folded texts that shifted with every change of light. Even their movement sounded like rustling paper and turning pages. The kingdom itself was a living archive. Streets were pressed parchment, buildings grew like stacked books, and meaning shaped reality more than stone or metal. Words were precious, so speech was rare and deliberate. At its center ruled King Arkanos the Folded, who could reshape himself into new chapters and move through forgotten moments of time. Under his rule, Atum gathered knowledge from distant worlds and sealed it within living archives. But over time, decay entered the written world. The Great Ink Blight began erasing entire histories, turning stories into blank silence. One by one, the Paperkings lost their form as memory faded. In the final collapse, Arkanos folded himself into the Heart Book and sealed the Blight inside it. When the last pages settled, the kingdom fell silent. Only one page remained, carrying a final truth. As long as someone reads, we live.
