神々の時代の終わり──
人々の時代の始まりに伴って、旧き支配者たちは文明の灯すまばゆい光の外へとその姿を消しつつあった。かつて空を駆け海を往き地を統べた神々、その栄光と畏怖に満ちた体躯、存在は、光に消える影の如く消えゆくがさだめ。
けれども。しかし。
人の文明の中心たる『灰色の国』は、消えゆく神々に体を供するすべを編み出した。 すなわち、神々の新たな体躯を鋼鉄と機関 (エンジン) とで成す技術である。
かくして、神々は再びその威光を取り戻しつつあった。
繁栄を誕歌する『灰色の国』をはじめとする多くの国々で体を得た神々は力による大いなる恵みを人々に与えた。
人々は繁栄の極みを得た。
神々は仮初めの生を得た。
そして、ある時、白の神が生まれた。
終わりゆくはずの神々の時代、消え去るべき神々の時代、人と神とが暮らすあり得べからざる時代の終罵を導く、最後の、あたらしい神が──
The end of the Age of the Gods...
With the beginning of the Age of Humanity, the old rulers were disappearing out of the dazzling light of civilization. The gods who once rode the skies and oceans and ruled the earth, their glorious and awe-inspiring bodies and beings, were fading away like shadows in the light.
But. But.
The "Gray Country", the center of human civilization, has devised a way to offer bodies to the disappearing gods. In other words, the technology to create new bodies for the gods with steel and Engines.
Thus, the gods were regaining their majesty.
The gods, who had taken on new bodies in the prosperous "Gray Country" and many other countries, gave their people great blessings in the form of power.
The people attained the peak of prosperity.
The gods were given their first temporary lives.
And one day, the White God was born.
The last, new god who would lead to the end of the age of the gods, the age of the gods that was supposed to end, the age of the gods that was to disappear, the end of the impossible age in which man and god lived together...
