Lost Legacy: Introduction

In the beginning, when the cosmos was still in its infancy, all rested within the motionless solitude. The only beings were the radiant goddess Lunari and the god Dracos. They had been in a state of deep slumber suspended in silence. Lunari was the first to awaken. As her lids lifted from her cloudy grey irises, white seg began to sprinkle from her holy vestige. The seg dusted the void with the first glimmers of light. It wasn’t long before a large amount accumulated into a single form, thus creating the massive source of white essence: Radiata. The light was powerful and shone out far across the plain creating more great lanterns to bath everything within its radiance. With the space now basking in light, the second god began to stir. As he awoke black seg pooled from his body and spread rapidly casting shadows on Lunari’s creations. Displeased Lunari willed Radiata to shine brighter, to counteract this injustice. However, Dracos created the four dark moons to counteract Radiata: Darkova. The masses battled the other with a constant flows of light and darkness, thus creating the natural balance. With time Lunari and Dracos came to a truce and used their seg to create different types of Essences. Lunari created: the green tuule, blue vesi, brown maa, and white valgus; while Dracos created: red tulekahju, black pimedus, and his own original elements.
The duo then combined their newly created Essences giving birth to the planet, Lunari. It was vast however; the essences within the planet was untempered and required order. Therefore Lunari created “The Vaatleja” who was made for the sole purpose of regulating the planet’s different essences. Taking his place within Lunari’s core, The Vaatleja bent the essences to his will and made them balance each other. With order in place these essences combined to form a multitude of landscapes.
Pleased with this Lunari wanted something to inhabit her beloved world, so Dracos proposed they create creatures to dwell within it. Together they brought a vast amount of creatures into existence. These beasts were as diverse as snowflakes, swimming in the oceans, soaring to embrace the sky’s freedom, and bounding across the land. Lunari was overjoyed but was troubled, with time the creatures grew and aged. She knew that soon they would cease to exist. Dracos explained that with this new life its shadow existed alongside it, which he commanded: Death. This news upset the goddess but Dracos assured her if death was nonexistent then the world would become cluttered. Reluctantly she agreed, but introduced her own concept of new life by separating the creations into two different genders. With her new design this allowed them to reproduce thus making new life on their own.
Something was missing. Lunari wanted to create creatures that were smarter and had direct ties with her. She asked Dracos’s aid once more and together they created the six beings that were formed from the six different types of Essences. Lunari created mates for them and they became the founders of their races: Halun, Erthu, Yule, Koth, and Volca. Having done so much Lunari slept and left everything in Dracos’s capable hands, just as he had planned.
Dracos placed a seal of eternal slumber on the radiant goddess, and then under his dark guidance Dracos introduced conflict to the people of the world who had only known peace. He traveled there under a halunen guise and showed its inhabitants how to manipulate the essence into different forms: such as weapons and spells. With this revelation the once peaceful world became violent and chaotic. The nations, founded by the first beings, began to war for dominance. With the war came death, along with death came revenge, and ultimately despair. Dracos flourished in the discord he had wrought.
The first beings had grown corrupt lusting for power so that their races could have dominion over the world. Hearing their scornful cries, Dracos granted them the power they sought. Thus, gargantuan amounts of their corresponding essences were absorbed into their bodies twisting their forms to monstrous proportions. They had become the very embodiment of their essence, the avatars, and now had the power to decimate countless foes. However, due to their pact with Dracos, their minds and goals had been wiped away, leaving only a feral lust for destruction. They wrecked unprecedented havoc across the planet and even turned against those whom they sought to protect.
It seemed the hell that consumed the world would never cease. That is until a miracle occurred. Within the cosmos from a great explosion the third deity, the grand phoenix awoke. It traveled toward the cries of pain and strife, all the while Dracos was not aware of phoenix’s presence. It heard the cries of Lunari’s people and desperately wanted to save them. However, it was clear Dracos could not be felled alone. Just then the phoenix felt a dim presence within the darkest corners of the space. It followed the dim beacon until it discovered a slumbering Lunari suspended within an elaborate seal. Knowing that if broken Dracos would be immediately notified, the phoenix reached out with its mind.

“Hello? Can you hear me?” it called. Lunari slowly began to awaken; her light began to shine forth once more but was constricted by the seal.
“W-what? Who are-“ before she had a chance to finish the pain of her creations impacted her all at once.
The very planet itself cried out for her to restore order as well. Lunari was stunned and when she began to wonder what occurred she could feel Dracos’s horrid presence at the core of this desolation.  She had been tricked.
Knowing she must set it right Lunari faced the being she recognized as a diety like herself.
“What is your name?” she inquired,
“My name is Ato” it answered preparing for the inevitable confrontation that was to come.
“Please Ato I beg of you help me save my beloved creations!” Lunari pleaded.
“As you wish.” he answered as black flames crackled within its maw.
With that the two combined their strength, Lunari pushing from inside and Ato from outside, shattering the seal from the strain.
Dracos turned to face where he had sealed Lunari only to be greeted by the sight of Lunari and Ato staring back at him. With a laugh, Dracos proclaimed his victory and that all hope was lost. Lunari on the other hand refused to give in and challenged the god to a battle for dominion with Ato by her side. Confident in his absolute power Dracos accepted. The ensuing battle shook the very foundations of the cosmos as the deities warred. Each blow was fierce and merciless. The citizens of the world gazed to the heavens and bore witness to the godly battle. A particular Halunen prince, Stratos, rallied together an army of refugees, all of whom were from each race, and led a rebellion against the Avatars of Essence. Other people of the world followed suit and joined the war for their salvation. With courage raging in their hearts they fought protecting and dieing for one another against the elemental monstrosities. Moved by their display of will, Lunari was compelled now more than ever to protect them.
As the war raged the prince laid on his back, his body battered and broken, and called out to the goddess in desperation.
“I care not what happens to me! I beg of you dear goddess use me as your tool to protect them! Lunari!” he cried out.
Lunari having heard his plea had gained the upper hand on Dracos, and using every ounce of power within herself she stripped Dracos of a vast amount of his power. Combining his power with half her own, she granted the prince his wish transforming him into the Dragon of Order.
“Please save them!” she ordered.
Having retained his mind the dragon began to fight alongside what remained of his troops against the avatars.
As Ato was preparing to finish Dracos off Lunari took pity on the powerless god and stopped the phoenix. Instead she told him to help Stratos and defeat the avatars. Reluctantly, Ato flew down to the planet and assisted the dragon. Eventually the two overcame the beasts and sealed them into the land. The two joined Lunari and surrounded Dracos. As Lunari prepared oblivion, Ato and Stratos held Dracos in place.
Knowing his end was near the defeated god left this cryptic message “You may think you have won, however I will return. When I do Lunari prepare yourself, for I shall tear all in creation asunder! So enjoy your fleeting peace because soon destruction will rain down upon you all!”
With that Lunari banished the fallen god to the darkest dregs of the cosmos where he would rot for eternity. The citizens of the world stood united and sung praises for the goddess. Stratos rested within the land waiting should he be needed to set things right again, and Ato simply disappeared without a word. Lunari watched over her precious world and created Eirini; a plain of existence where the souls of the departed can find eternal rest and become beings of white essence living alongside the goddess before ultimately rejoining the flow of essence within the world.
With time the War of Salvation became a distant memory and the nations teetered on the edge of conflict once again. The Halunen nation has grown into the most threatening on Lunari and its empire holds terrible ambitions. It is here that our tale begins.