Welcome to The Hinterland

This is a world that exists well within your imagination, but just beyond the reach of your reasoned mind. It is the place whence comes that which you thought you saw from the corner of your eye. It is the bizarre truth that underpins your ordinary world. Every time something unexplained happens in your life, when your very existence seems too strange to be real, that is the Hinterland slipping through the cracks of your subconscious.

Compared to the Hinterland, your world is in its infancy. The Hinterland is not a few hundred, thousand or even million years older than Earth—it has always been. There’s a problem with infinity, though. It is nearly impossible for our simple minds to understand something that has no end. It is perhaps even more difficult to imagine something that exists, despite having no beginning. Some inhabitants of The Hinterland struggled with this concept, just as we humans would.

So it was that one civilization, the Atenkentu took it upon themselves to do something about it. They discovered a mineral called Timendite that would change everything. It was a way to put reins on the limitless, to make infinity more comprehensible. Their religion decreed that they were the divine keepers of time itself. Their scriptures dictated that they must process the Timendite in a sacred ritual so as to create order for all living things.

Before the advent of the Atenkantu’s rituals, all living things lived in a state of time fluidity; the essence of time-space existed not unlike the sea. It ebbed and flowed, but had no beginning or end, nor did it have a single direction. Using the Timendite to force time into a linear path did not negate The Hinterland’s lack of a beginning, but this act doomed it to one day end, along with our own world and all others throughout the universe.

The once-abundant mineral is now in short supply, and that end may be closer than we think. That is, unless a brave adventurer can find a peaceful resolution to the peril facing us all. To do so will mean confronting their own inner demons. Will they defeat the foes who stand in their way, or will they be thwarted by their inability to face who they truly are?