Prologue:

The History of the Crystal Caravans

Back in the times of old, during the Golden Age, there once was a Great Crystal. Its size and beauty were unrivaled by anything in the world. All of the nations basked in its glow, and all was good. Then one day, a fell meteor came from the sky. It was so bright, all the stars fainted away, and it was as bright as the day. The meteor collided with the Great Crystal, and the Crystal exploded into many shards. The meteor then began to exude a malefic miasma that made the sky go dark, and the land die, and the people were forced to flee for their lives. They fled across the land, running from the miasma, when they found a part of the Great Crystal. It offered protection from the miasma, and so they stayed. A century after the destruction of the Great Crystal and the spread of the miasma, monsters were seen in the woods and in the hills. The villagers also noticed that the Crystals were slowly losing their glow. To remedy their plight, they took a small piece of the Crystal shard and made an amulet out of it, and gave it to the strongest warriors. The warriors then set out for a solution to the problem, and the villagers did their best to carry on. One year later, the Warriors came back, and told of a strange tree they had never seen before. Their crystal had reacted with the tree, and drew from it some sort of dew that glowed like the Crystal. The village elder then took the amulet to the crystal, and the crystal glowed like a shining blue star. The day after, the crystal's glow had not receded, so the villagers assumed they had found the solution. They named the dew "Myrrh", set up a caravan of the strongest people in the village, and sent them out to collect the myrrh once a year.

This is the beginning of the Crystal Chronicles