Waking up in a black room our protagonist asks a question "who am I?" In response a screen from an unknown power called the <quest line> offers him a way to find out through trial and torment. This story is that of a homunculus, forced by its dead creator to go a journey through hell to acquire the strength to defend himself before learning how to resurrect the blood brother of his creator despite the homunculi's distaste for having his freedom taken away as soon as he opened his eyes. After escaping hell and acquiring a chaotic and dangerous power called 'aether' the homunculus is sent to a world called Shatterre that is dominated by demons and ruled by a group of gods in search of a way to free himself from his creators grip. In search of a method to remove his burden the homunculus explores the land making allies and in his wake only ruin and death is left to those that stood in the homunculi's path catching the gods of that worlds attention. Will Strife tear apart an innocent civilisation just to be rid of his task? Or will he be it's unlikely saviour from a tyrant ruler?
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