Antiquity ~ 12,000 B.C.
The Dark Ages, a time when all of the planet is covered in snow and ice causing much of civilization to falter. Lavos exists in this time, his power being used by those in the Kingdom of Zeal, located on four floating land masses high enough in the atmosphere that they have escaped the lower cold. Events will eventually lead Zeal to fall from the clouds flooding much of the planet and rendering natural magic users almost extinct, a fate that was unchanged and allow the world to once again come of age and progress in technology.