The east coast of North America split off from the rest of the continent at some point in the past and formed a separate continent farther east in the Atlantic, giving rise to what would become known as Atlantis. Jealousy, expansionism and the dream of conquest leads Atlantis and other nations of the world away from peace and toward the long and slippery slope toward war: * Timeline (The Empire of Atlantis) * Wars (The Empire of Atlantis) *