Tales of Bastunia

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>About Training Grounds</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Being a beastborn is no joke. Not only has Joan's mind been invaded by the infant-god but every time her Calling gets hurt she shares in the pain. Her father Bastunia's most heroic beastborn turned self-appointed mentor is determined to forge Joan and Monkey's connection into something special. But before progress can be made Joan and James must make amends. Overcoming a lifetime of troubled history will not prove easy. So begins a battle of wills that puts Artie in a precarious position. Can they settle their differences before the boy becomes collateral damage?</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>About the Tales of Bastunia series:</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>For all of history the god of Bastunia has bestowed upon the people a gift: a spiritual beast-companion that helps them on their life's Path. In the span of a couple hundred years they have turned from barbarians into high society. But when the god vanishes leaving people to find their own way their civilized world begins to fall apart.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>First there was </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Discovery</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> a period of history that emerged out of an unknown past. Time began here with the first scrawlings of the Record. Next a gifted god with his deific ingenuities and the help of a few chosen Bastunians created </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Order</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>. It was a time of enlightenment achievement and great expansion. The people were certain that </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Order</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> was an epoch that would never end. But the darkness of the cosmos hid chaos-spawn whose lives were devoted to destruction. </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Order</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> lasted barely one hundred years. At the eve of the second century the god's impressive creation began to show cracks. It was an era marked by apparent neglect by abandonment by turmoil and it was aptly named the </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Crumble</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>. Now the god has been completely missing for sixteen years and Bastunia is well into the modern era: the </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Fall</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But things are about to change in a big way. Bastunia after an exhausting streak of setbacks is about to get a win that could change their fortune. Or it might accelerate them toward extinction...</span></p>