Dragon Era 龍 2036

A future historian discovers something that shouldn't exist: an archive containing records from different periods of Chinese civilization, but some records appear to have been created before the events they describe.

The researchers begin studying the records and notice that the Dragon appears repeatedly — not as a mythical creature, but as a recurring cultural symbol that seems to change meaning across different eras.

There is a gap in the historical records. An entire period has been removed, yet traces of it remain in clothing, architecture, paintings, manuscripts, and digital fragments.

The researchers discover that 2036 is not simply a date inside the archive. Something significant begins happening to the records at that point. New records appear without a known author.

Exactly 2,036 Dragon records eventually emerge. Nobody can determine whether they represent people, events, memories, possibilities, or something else entirely.

The archive begins containing references to a civilization far beyond 2036. The researchers find a symbol they have never seen associated with the Dragon before: 馬.

The final records contain a date: 3226. What happened between 2036 and 3226 remains unknown. The archive does not explain it. It only leaves fragments.