On April 6, 2029, of the old calendar, airbursts from a meteor shower scattered alien genetic material across the planet, transforming every living thing.Those humans who managed to survive the transformations, and the chaos that followed, took many forms. Based on their appearance, they adopted names from the fantasy genre best exemplified by Tolkien.Besides humans, the vastly changed world had dwarves, elves and hobbits, along with creatures from the darker side of the genre.This is the first part in the story of those events that ushered in the first age's true beginning as told by Ida, one of the Maiar.