Long ago in the world of Relk they had a perfect balance until the lords came.
While the lords of chaos could only offer pleasures and indulgences the lords of stagnation offered eternal peace (if only they knew what that meant back then) so a crusade against chaos began and the world could very well have ended back then if not for the love between a "witch" and one of the old crusaders.
By the time the crusades died down there were sadly only humans and ferals remaining and chaos could no longer grant its greatest of gifts.
Many centuries later an AI was touched by the lords of stagnation and humanity finally saw what their idea of "eternal peace" was but while the world was freezing over 2 college students and a magical boy gathered all the life they could into a single town that the boy then managed to cut off from the rest of the world.
The city drifted through the multiversal void for a while before landing in a new world where it seemed the forces of chaos had far more hold but thankfully the first races to make contact were so kind to help these newcomers rebuild.
You are a citizen of this city spending a night at the "iron turtle" just as a new legend is headed your way.