How it began...

Tales of green forests and sun-drenched plains are no longer told even to cubs: too much time has passed, too much water has frozen... And tales have changed, filled with rage, pain, and fear, from entertainment to warning again, like in dark ancient times.

            The diesel lanterns, flickering and fickle, reveal indistinct silhouettes in the darkness. The bears grin and snarl: feared or not, they don’t show any sign. The engine of the hovering car tears the silence to pieces with its roars, and this is the only sound breaking the deadly silence of the boundless ice flatlands. However, the bears do not relax: they know what creatures might lurk in the dark, behind a rock, around a corner…

             Perhaps L’dana, the ice bears, those who welcome the cold and the night, and wish to be left alone in a cold and empty world, to command its stiffened remains... Or Moon, the wild wolves, the favorites of the pale moon? Their goddess has almost disappeared from the sky, for less and less sunlight reaches her... Or Kaitites? Those unfortunate brethren, unlucky enough to die outside the walls of soaring cities, who wander in darkness, drawn by the warmth of engines and beastly bodies. What leads them, pain or rage? Or maybe just a desire for warmth...?

            Legends tell that when the bears reach the Warm Sunset and rekindle the Sun, all Kaitites will thaw and return home as they were before they died. In the meantime, their mindless throngs stalk the shadows of the soaring cities in silence. The bears use the largest crowd of Kaitites, the Sea of Kai, as a landmark to locate the city of Wegg. Spotting the Sea, the captain orders a hover car to fly up, almost beneath the clouds, where the city of Wegg soars: the last masterpiece of lost civilization.

          Not long ago, bears found its ruins on the ground, covered with ice, and pandas of the Khohu clan managed to make it fly again. Now Wegg, the legendary city, soars in the sky, giving hope to every bear who notices its flaming glow high up in the air.

           "Why is Wegg so-o-o-legendary?" - is a question that only a very young bear cub might ask. Then they sit him on their laps and tell him a tale, the most important tale of his life...

             Once upon a time very, very long ago, little bear cub, when the beasts still remembered what forests, raspberries, and wild honey were, when the world was just beginning to freeze, when the sun began to fade, the beasts built the largest, most perfect city, and lifted it into the air. Its captain, leader, and chief was Arraina Golden Fur, a she-bear of the Sollu clan, and there was no equal to her in the entire world. Wegg was to take the beasts across the Roaring Abyss far to the North, to the land of darkness and cold in the heart of which, as ancient legends and prophecies had said, rested the Warm Sunset, the place where the Sun would regain its power…

              No, little bear, look outside the window, look at that hungry blizzard, of course they failed... While Arraina was gathering around her bravest, strongest, and most worthy beasts, Kai of L’dana clan was preparing to stop her triumphal flight. While Arraina's companions studied fire and metal, the science of fuel and the soul of flame, Kai studied the ancient darkest arts, kidnapped and sacrificed bears, gradually transforming himself into a grotesque monster...

               A giant woven from the bones of bears stands in the way of the city of Wegg. In each of the prongs of its icy crown, hovering over its enormous skull, the leader of one of the bear clans sleeps eternally... Only one place is empty: the place prepared for Arraina. Kai sends storms into the city, and Wegg hangs on... But not for long. Arraina's companions die one by one, the towers collapse to the ground, piercing it, and the fuel flows to the first drifts like blood... Arraina, anticipating imminent defeat, tries to save the last treasure of the warm-skinned - the compass that will show the way to the Warm Sunset...

                  No, little bear, no one has seen Arrayna or Compass or Kai since then. Don't cry, little bear cub. I feel that very soon the new leader will come to  take Arraina’s place and lead us to the Warm Sunset. To the Sun. To a new hope. We wait.

                  You wait, too.