For hundreds of years it has been known that prolonged exposure to the Cloud Ocean causes mutation, and often death. But 50 years ago it was discovered that about 1 in 100,000 people exposed developed powerful mental abilities instead of physical deformities. Frightened for their own safety in the face of dangerous uncontrolled psychic energy, enclaves exiled anyone exhibiting psionic traits to the Wastes to fend for themselves. It is rumored that the most capable Exiles are recruited and taken in by a faction called the Forevergone.