The God of Wine is an evil deity in the eyes of some, but to others, his very existence brings satiety. Long before the conception of the Cynark empire, when the Night Ravens ruled the Brihma continent, things were not as good as many might have thought.
There was no structure in the Old Regime's rule, they just ruled over the masses without doing anything for them, all they did was maintain their power and let the countless forces run amok among their lands. Not like they needed to do much, considering their territory was a fraction of the current Cynark empire. But it showed a level of distance from the normal folks of that time. How their alienation from the world around them caused countless disasters out of inaction.
Many people cursed them as the bad rulers, many derided them for their cowardice. But some, specifically a branch of their family were not only frustrated by the inaction, they outright looked to replace them and rule like a just ruler.
