Before the Chosen Ones

"Don't say that, you bastard!"

**Before the Chosen Ones** is the first saga of the *Tales of Harmony* series. It was officially started on October 18, 2022 with *Girls of Light*, the first chapter of the *Beginnings* story. It follows the journey of the holoCouncil as they learn how to be Heroes, all the while eventually discovering the truth about themselves.

It is composed of 11 stories, with them organized in:

* **Main Stories**: These stories contain the main flow of the saga, portraying the events withing it.
* **Side Stories**: These stories contain information important to the main stories but whose events are not very essential to the flow of the saga.
* **Prequel Stories**: These stories show events that happened in the past (before the beginning of the main stories - and the Friendshipverse as a whole).

## Main Stories

1. *Beginnings* (saga premiere)
2. *Meet New Friends*
3. *Trials*
4. *Council*
5. *Battle*
6. *Eternal* (saga finale)

## Side Stories

1. *Hidden Worries*
2. *Aurora and Dracolich's Past*

## Prequel Stories

* *How It All Began*
* *The Omen*
* *The Life of the Young Girls*

## Trivia

* The story takes place in 3000 B.H, and it is confirmed to take place at ancient Erayklon in the Magical Dimension.
* Because of the fact that the saga is technically a rebooted version of the holoCouncil backstory, some things are different from it and *hololive* as a whole:
	+ In the first two prequels, Kiara Takanashi and Calliope Mori are respectfully not the narrators.
* The saga is written by CheerfulSteekip, GlorysiaMelodyYT, and Foodyeater.
* The saying "Creatures can't live together with others that aren't their kind" would eventually be dropped years later.
* The saga will have four versions: the picture/script version (done on Deviantart), the novel version (done on Wattpad), the webseries version, and the DVD/Blu-ray version.
	+ Both the picture/script version and the webseries version are shown to keep scenes in their original form. Both variants are targeted for everyone.
	+ The novel version is shown to change many scenes in order to make the novel kid-friendly. It is targeted for younger children.
	+ The DVD/Blu-ray version can only found on a DVD and Blu-ray called "Complete Edition." It is shown to (Glory, help!). The DVD and Blu-ray are only targeted for (Glory, help!).
* In this saga only, the term "Hero" has a metaphorical meaning: it actually means the holoCouncil preparing for fights like the one against Dark Nebula, as well as learning how to use their own powers for the good of others, as they don't even have a *need* to be Chosen Ones or transform since they are already gods.
* This is the only saga to have no Magis (or Magis-to-be) at all. This makes sense considering that the saga takes place long before the story of the first team of Magis themselves.
* As seen in the opening, it is also known as simply **Tales of Harmony** (Japanese: **ハーモニックテイルズ** *Harmonic Tales*), indicating that the series was initially planned to have only one saga before a huge overhaul caused a change of plans.
	+ This indication would soon be proven true with the release of the saga's behind-the-scenes book.
* Originally, the saga was known to made-up hololive fans as **hololive tales** prior to the official series premiere. This title, however, ended up being used for the novel version.