Artefacts of Power

After the **Battle of Driedal**, when Equipoise was created and Chaos and harmony were reduced to shells of their former selves. Something no one, not even these beings of immense power themselves, could have predicted happened. As the two opposing forces of light and dark were blown, both literally and figuratively, away from the battlefield fragments of their essence broke away from them - tethered somehow to that spot.

It was Equipoise themself, as they found form, thought and cognition, who discovered the fragments. After realizing that these fragments would not be parted from the plains in their current state, and realizing that such fragments of power were too powerful to leave just lying around - Equpoise concocted a plan.

They called upon the dwarves of the mountains deep within Caivia and upon the master jewel smiths of Stoniel. Together, the two forces would gather the materials to craft a housing of sorts to contain the fragments of the essences. Once this casing was crafted, and it was some of the most exquisite work imaginable,  Equipoise then called upon the greatest and most powerful mortal mages of the age to help them to contain and shield the essences within the crafted housing with powerful protection magic.

Together Dwarves, Elves, Humans, Tieflings and races of all kind worked for a fortnight - day and night they toiled. And when they had finished they had crafted and contained the essence of Harmony within a Ring, and the essence of Chaos within an amulet with Equipoise's help. They then watched as Equipoise withdrew a fragment of their own essence and placed it inside their prepared pendant.

Now, as Equipoise explained, these fragments of essence would always yearn to be reunited with their greater parts - even their own freely given fragment could be felt by this great being tugging at them and willing them to take it back into themself. And so Equipoise turned to the champions of these mortal races and pleaded that they take these artefacts far from the plains from whence they were broken and hide them - protect them.

The Dwarves of Caivia, responsible for the forging of the metal strong enough to hold the form of the artefact,  would take the **Chaos Amulet** to secret away. The great mages who had helped contain the essences of the three would take the **Ring of Light** containing Harmony's essence to keep it secret and safe. And finally, the humans of Chellearenth, the storytellers would take the **Amulet of Protection** and secret it away - even from Equipoise themself.

The three groups all took solemn oaths of protection to never allow the essences to be reunited with their respective sources. They each formed an order dedicated to this charge. The **Order of the Enlightened Eyes**, was formed to protect the Chaos Amulet and taken deep within the Caivian mountains and mines and a specially fortified secret vault was created to contain the artefact and protect it.

The **Order of the Prime Path** was formed to take the Ring of Light away. It was taken to the South of Stoniel where these great mages founded and erected a magic school - intent on pulling all the power they could muster to protect the artefact entrusted to them.

The **Order of the Azure Children** was formed by the humans of Chellearenth to take the Amulet of Protection away from the Plains of Driedal - although these clever humans opted to not take their artefact too far from this source of magical destruction, chaos and wild magic when a prophecy was revealed to a member of their order that three champions would one day rise to return the artefacts to the place of their creation. And while this prophecy was disseminated among the other two orders, the Order of the Azure Children began to dig into the earth of Atemnity - far beneath the surface until a pocket was reached where all magic ceased to exist. Where they knew one day the artefacts would be brought to, to ultimately and forever keep them out of the hands of their sources.

These three orders existed in relative seclusion and secrecy for many years. Quietly guarding their charges and awaiting the prophesied champions. But agents of Chaos are ruthless and during the events of the Atemnity War, the Chaos Amulet was stolen from their deep and secret vault. To this day, no one knows how it was found and it is assumed that someone on the inside of the order was turned against them and let the information slip. As a direct result of this theft, which was quickly reported to the other orders, the Order of the Prime Path determined that the school was no longer safe enough for the Ring of Light. And so they searched for a new place in which to hide it. It was as the war began to die down, as Serelia came forward and declared themselves a sovereign nation that the order hatched a plan. This new nation had for so long existed secretly and apart from the other six kingdoms and seemed to have powerful magic unknown to even them and not tied to the other three sources of magic that were Chaos, Harmony and Equipoise.

And so, because of the inability for just anyone to portal into Serelia, the Order of the Prime Path had a special cage crafted and placed the Ring of Light in its vessel inside the enchanted cage to load it onto a sailing vessel bound for Serelia along with one of their most accomplished mages with instructions for the Council of Lords to protect the Artefact and its keeper until such time as the keeper found the champion destined to bear the ring to its final resting place. However, even a great mage cannot always contend with natural forces, particularly when magical forces intertwine with them. And the vessel bearing the ring was lost to the depths of the Jishem Ocean along with its crew never to be seen again. Its keeper knocked unconscious by the storm only to wash up miraculously on the shores of Dalery island with little memory of who he was and how he had come to be there.

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