It's only been half a century after the discovery of a race long dead from a time before the current era. The Bantioc expedition team expected only to find ruins and rich veins of valuable rare metals within the Ruined City of Taepan. What they encountered, was something even more valuable than all the riches of the world: Dae Yongs.
These giants of the past were thought to be extinct. Records from the Grand Archives document their conquest throughout the planet until a devastating, virulent disease began systematically wiping cities after cities. From such violent nature of this plague, it was commonly accepted that they would have died off if not from the actual pandemic, then from the sudden and harsh collapse of infrastructure.
Yet what the Bantioc expedition team found were living, breathing Dae Yongs, reviving each other from the long, isolated hibernation they subjected themselves to in order to escape the complete destruction of their race. These Dae Yongs weren't feral, nor where they disorganized. Systematically waking each other, already assigning positions in their social classes, everything was planned out for the race knew: in order to survive, everything must be preserved.
Of those who survived the devastation was a jolly, relaxed, ancient monk of his race: Ji San. Born attuned to the very land built and rebuilt over the eons, he took the role of guarding what will become the future land of his people. The old world he once knew is no more, but the history of the land can never be erased even with all of what has happened. But the Grand City of Taepan is being rebuilt; the five orders of Earth, Fire, Metal, Water, and Wind are restructuring themselves to what was once their pinnacle of power.
"The earth always has a story to tell. you must have the ears to listen to her to grow."
Ji San, The Earth Mountain explores the new world, with the powers of an Earthborne monk at the palm of his hand. Heeding the calls of crying land to fertilize and renew the desolate soils.
