ARCHAIC From the Great Midsee to the two Calfrei's, the year 2906 saw Nordland in upheaval. There were rumors of war as the pseudo-Sioux pushed south from the Indian confederation in a strange alliance with the yellow-skinned wizards of Hunan, far to the North...and for the first time since the Disaster of a thousand years earlier, all of Nordland seemed poised on the brink of annihilation. Into the middle of the war stirrings came Kelwin the Broon, finder - and occassionally manufacturer - of archaics, the tantalizing treasures that were all the remained of the world before Disaster. Aided only by his apprentice, Base, and armed with his wits and his half-knowledge of things better forgotten, it was his task to stop the war before the visitation of another Disaster... (Source: back cover)