In The Beginning.... there was The Flame which lived within the boundless Void. 300,000 years ago, before time began.. there was only The entity known as "The Living Flame." He was an entity weilding the essence of His power by His blade of Omnipotence that He used to split the vast and empty Void in two. Through His interdimensional slit He shed His light and created the first stars from the incinerating embers of the slit. He shed His light through this fire and from the ash He binded together with light and created the first galaxies surrounding the embers from His tips. Creating the universe... and from His omnipotent blade He split apart time and space and gave time dominion over space. He then split apart the dark and the light. From light came the first world that He named as all encompassingly Holy world and He named it "Therah" making it His own gift to the universe. To the dark he gave the incense eminating from His tongues of fire. Hense creating the nebulas and He gifted the Dark to have the privilege to continue creating the next stars throughout it's vast expanse. To The First World of Therah He put upon it the plains, rock, water, gold and crystal. He made it the fruit of His labor from love and by His sword of omnipotence, no power from The Void shall ever swallow it. But from His generosity to His brother, the Seed of the Void He gave Him one of His trees and sewn it beyond the boundaries of Therah and "upon it to whom would promise to never pass through by Thyne own accord." Said The Living Flame towards His brother and equal The Seed of the Void. This was what came from the creation of the first world. The birth of the universe.
The Three First Sons of The Living Flame They were born with qualities unique to themselves. Each showing that they were the triunal image of the Holy Flame and His character. Mikhail: Divine Authority, Gavrielik: Divine Wisdom, Lucius: Divine Influence. They're the first three sons born of The Living Flame. By this great love He wanted to make a kingdom. With beings He could call his own and were like Himself. So from Himself and the love He made upon Therah. He created three sentient beings all encompassing of His character. He titled them as The First Sons of The Flame. Mikhail, Gavrielik and Lucius. From Him and the three sons, the living world of Therah was the domain that upon it was created The Grand Holy Kingdom of Gold and Living Fire. The Living Flame then gifted this Legendary Kingdom to the care of His three sons to all have dominion over and to look after. As the three brothers grew and developed themselves through their given birthrights. They knew this world as it's mother, the Flame as their creative Father and The Kingdom of Gold and Fire as the gifted dominion upon them. Alongside their gifts unique to each of them all of which encompassed the essence of The Living Flame character. Mikhail with that of His Divine Authority, Gavrielik with His Divine Wisdom, and then Lucius with His Divine Influence. With these characteristics, they all fully built up and nurtured this First World of Therah and the Kingdom that layed upon her soil.
The echo of The Living Flame's grief then beckoned across the stars. At the sight of the murder of on of his beloved sons, Lucius. To have known that his brother, The Seed of Void took his son's face and killed his soul. This was the origin to Light declaring war upon Dark. As for Lucius's brothers Mikhail, and Gavrielik.. they both wished it was themselves to be taken instead of the youngest among them. It brought a great weight of sadness upon Mikhail. To know, what he must do as his duty as defender of Therah. From this time and forever. Lucius The Grand Influencer was murdered by The Soul of the Dark Seed. He then in being possessed, became The First Traitor. The Tragedy of Lucius 200,000 years before the days of the final Arbiter, Jordan began. 160,000 years before the creation of a Second World, then named "Hareth." Came a day that would live in infamy amongst the brothers Mikhail and Gavrielik's memory forevor. The day the Flame became distraught when learning that His youngest image Lucius, became consumed and possessed by Darkness that in turn ultimately murdered Lucius from the inside out. For the longest time the brother of The Living Flame, "The Soul of The Dark Seed" was considered His opposing equal since time began. Howevor the only difference between them was that The Dark Seed had to have a host to have any power. With knowing this and knowing that The Seed of the Void could not by any means enter The realm of Therah. He saw Lucius, The Great Influencer as the being to possess by dicieving him to take of It's power. While the three sons werent ever to cross into the realm of the Void they had the privilege to stand upon it's border with supervision of eachother. While the Flame and his two brothers were tending to their own labor. Lucius while alone was intranced by the tree that harbored the essence of The Dark Seed. It spoke to Lucius and while Lucius attempted to resist Him. The Seed took of Lucius's arm and from in creeped it's toxic power into his mind and heart corrupting Lucius and killing him in the process. By the possessing of his character and gifts of influence&charisma It began to spread Darkness into Therah poisoning the realm through tainting the powers Lucius was given by The Living Flame. By the time his brother's realized what had happened Lucius was already taken from them and resided with the trunk of the enormous tree as he grew up losing his sense of truth and the life he once had. This was the tragedy of young Lucius's death into being taken by Darkness.
Distraught with tears as Mikhail rose his sword of Damocles facing his blood brother Lucius possessed by The Dark Seed. "Who possessed you to poison this holy world of ours?! You had everything as it's influencer Lucius! But I shall do what i must as it's my authority to defend the Kingdom of Therah." As the clash sparked the skies, the battle between the third that was taken by possessed Lucius and the forces of Mikhail's kingdom guardians thundered across the stars as Therah and the universe trembled around them. While the Kingdom palace of The Flame erupted with fire with wailing cries of lement and anger towards His brother The Dark Seed breaking the covenant between themselves and for murdering the heart of His Beloved son Lucius. There were a total of 2 million combatants and the battle lasted for 50,000 years. Bringing Therah close to desolation by time the war ended. The Great War of TherahAfter the tragic loss and the murder put upon The Great Influencer, Lucius.. by the The Dark Seed. There began a great dealing of war between the brothers Mikhail and Lucius after the Dark Seed used the influence of Lucius that had currupted a third of Therah's Kingdom Guardians who were under the command of Mikhail. Once this became apparent to Mikhail that the Dark Seed through possessing the likeness of his youngest brother. He became tested when Lucius approached him pleading to be with him again by joining the cause of a new reformation of rule against The Flame as brothers again under the Soul of The Seed. This hurt Mikhail, and Gavrielik. But the greif could not be compared to the aching pain the Flame grieved at the death of his most gifted of sons. However in knowing what would happen if Mikhail was to possibly join his dead brother Lucius.. He made Mikhail a promise that if he was to face this trial of war. Then he would be gifted to be The Forerunner of the following new realm after Therah on top of his gifted position as Head Guardian over their home Kingdom. Mikhail then agreed, and when remembering this he came to tears as he clashed his sword against his once loved brother.
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The Clash of BrethrenAlthough, while knowing this force was not who Lucius was meant to be. He came to his terms when they faced each other in an arduous dual between themselves. Fighting against the possessive entity using the likeness of Lucius. This was the spark that lead to The Great War of Therah. This war ended by defeat by Lucius's forced surrender with a chance to live on. This gesture of honor was Mikhail's final gift. From this point forward, Lucius now "First Traitor" and the guardians he currupted through the Dark Seed he became enveloped by either surrendered or fallen. The forces that doubted Lucius and or Mikhail by the end of "The Great War of Therah." Then became reformed by the The Living Flame, wiped clean of their remembrance as well as cured of their tainted wings&marks. There were only few who surrendered the destruction but doubted either side at the end of the war. Howevor from these 1,000 guardians and tainted feathers. They then were put to deep sleep and stored in a secret place where no individual interference could come upon them within the private sanctuary of The Living Flame. Without their knowledge.. they were planned to become ordained a second chance as the first humans to be born through metamorphosis and rebirthed upon the soil of next new realm to come centuries further in time. In a time after The Living Flame would rebuild Therah with Mikhail and Gavrielik. After they would eventually move on from the grievances of this destructive war. There were 2 million total warring forces.
The holy world of Therah was never the same ever again. The scar of it's war between the clashing sons echoed through time and space. Though the forces of the now Forerunner Mikhail's Kingdom Guardians. Won the war with a victory to be remembered forever. It was in the end bittersweet. Knowing what they in turn lost before the beginning of the war. The Victory did not sound with the trumpets of glory but with the dust and echoes of sadness. The victory was a call of celebration But knowing the cost of the war... the first banquet of glory was held with silence for the death of one of it's own. Time passed in silence as the repopulating and rebuilding went on upon the holy world of Therah. But the grief of the Flame was so great that all that He was but a silent tongue of fire. Waving in the sanctuary silent and grieving for 100,000 years from the death of who Lucius was to Him. Knowing he never was meant to be "The First Traitor" but as Therah's Grand Influencer who was taken from Him. The Dawn of a New World This war was forever left as a scar upon this holy world's past. It took centuries for Therah's rebuilding and repopulation efforts to pass while going through the pains of their loss of breathren in this bittersweet Victory. Before the Second World was to be made as a second chance moving on from Therah's scar. After the end of the First Great War upon the Holy Kingdom of Therah. Came a need from The Living Flame. To move on from His great grief and initiate the creation of The Second World, a world that resembled Therah. But for this being a world that came out of Therah's split during the war. It was named "Hareth". This world would act as a containment for The Seed of the Void. A way to uproot it's force of darkness, the world's core was to act as The Dark Seed's prison. The Flame still loved and remembered the help that The Dark Seed was for Him in creating the universe. Relizing that the Seed must've only wanted a world of its own. The Living Flame made it as close to Therah as it could be. But while knowing it had the curruption from The Dark Seed. It could not be as soon of a start as Therah was. The process for this second world of Hareth took 100,000 years. Slowly making it come to pass as a suitable world for life to grow upon it. Though He would always remember where Hareth came from.. He always remembered it as Good and a chance for renewal as The first world of Therah carried on to recover throughout the centuries to come. This was the process of the universe's creation and the origins of where Hareth's life as a new world came from. Now while knowing this world was currupted by its containment of The Dark Seed. There was another need... a need to keep the honor of The Living Flame alive upon it and to prevent The Dark Seed from overtaking the world of Hareth. A need to keep the balance of the two spheres had to be done through an Arbiter born from this new world's creation under the ordinance of The Living Flame and The Forerunner Mikhail....But when the waiting, the bittersweet victory, and the grieving ended...There was a want from The Living Flame for there to be a second chance of creation. So in this new calling He left to be by Himself in the Void planning and in the end of the wait... began 100,000 more years not in grieving. But in new found inspiration to create a new world. One that would act as a containment for His brother The Dark Seed. But could still be relatively close to Therah. Though it could never be a holy world as like Therah because of the fact of it containing The Dark Seed within it's core. It was a second chance for His creation to spring up from the ashes into new life. With this new found love and knowing it was based off His holy world of Therah. He named it...Hareth
This concludes the Creation Story within Legacy of the Arbiter.