A/N : Hi ! Chrollo here~ I've been reading fanfics for quite sometime and are in progress of writing one ^^ this is my first fic of the game I really liked, Dragon Nest. This first chapter would be a little prologue about the world setting for this story. well, that's all for now. Hope you enjoy the read~ R&R please~
Disclaimer : I don't own Dragon Nest.
Prologue
I. Lagendia's Origin | Vestinel & Altea
The realm of gods
A long time ago, the king of all gods Desmodius, foresaw a prophecy. That he will manifest his power to a lustre, a magical gem, that will offer blessings to the new world his daughter created. That lustre will then be retrieved by a mortal inhabitant of that world, and bring peace & prosperity for the world. He then tells this prophecy to his daughters, Vestinel and Altea.
Vestinel and Altea make a competition to decide which one of the will win their father's heart. Both of them created their own world through their dreams, their ideal world, created and filled with inhabitants as the world grew. Altea's world, known as Lagendia is the exact opposite of Vestinel's world, the Mistland.
Lagendia is a peaceful world, inhabited by the ancients, A race that are blessed by their goddess, that takes care of the world. There also existed other inhabitants in Lagendia, Humans, Elves, Minotaurs, Goblins, et cetera. And there also existed creatures that are given the task to protect Lagendia, The Ancient dragon, Sentinel and the Chaos dragon, Tempest.
On the other hand, Mistland, while being a mirror of Lagendia, is a mysterious world. As the name suggested, Mistland is covered in mist, the inhabitants of that world are dark creatures that lust for blood and destruction, with the Beyond dragon, Void, as the supreme creature and later the ruler of Mistland
Then, the two worlds were completed in fulfillment to the prophecy. While Lagendia filled Desmodius with joy, Mistland frightened him. In the end, altea won. Vestinel, jealous of Altea's victory, poisoned her and took the antidote when Desmodius banished her.
A goddess cannot die, thus forcing Altea enduring the pain from the poison, as she fell asleep for eternity. When this event took place at the realm of gods, Lagendia continued to flourish; unaware of the chaotic predicament to come as Altea's condition began to manifest itself into the world she created.
II. The Fading Light
Lagendia
As Altea fell into a pain filled slumber, she began having nightmares in her sleep. Her power slowly slipping through her unconscious state, and the nightmares began to take form in Lagendia.
The Ancients, the first inhabitants of Lagendia, is a race that received blessings directly from Altea, Making them very advanced in technology and having the knowledge and ability to use magic. They even created the power imbued metal plates known as Heraldries to help in their daily lives. Most of the ancients are a descendant of the two dragons, Tempest and Sentinel. Their role is to take care of Lagendia, doing good deeds, realizing peace, and protecting it.
Altea's is the one who make sure of the well-being of her world and her creation. When she fell into her slumber state, a lot of her creations felt the effect. Elves, her direct descendant, become mortals. A lot of her other creation, Goblins, Minotaurs, Ogres, and other creatures going berserk. Humans and dragons were the least affected by her state.
Unaware of the fact that their goddess fate, the ancients continued on their role and lived on. But slowly, the ancients fell to the darkness. One by one, they started to abandon their task, doing as they please with their power. Until at a certain point, most of the ancient heart corrupted and fell into darkness.
The corrupted ancients then seek to destroy Lagendia. And having the knowledge about magic, they came up with the best (or worst in this case) way to destroy the world. There existed an ancient artifact, known as Monolith, the heart of Lagendia. This Monolith, filled with Altea's power, is what keeping Lagendia apart from dimensional rifts, blocking the Mistworld inhabitants from entering Lagendia.
The dragons noticed the ancients strange behavior and found out about their plan to destroy the Monolith. The dragons barely made it to protect the Monolith, then the battle between dragons and the corrupted ancients began. But as the battle continued, the Monolith shattered, creating distortion in space and time, creating a bridge between Lagendia and Mistland.
Meanwhile, a powerful being that rested in the depths of the abandoned Mistland noticed that openings and begin to make its move.
III. The Three Dragons
After the battle, a few corrupted ancients that survived fled away, hiding from the wrath of the dragons. Sentinel and Tempest were severely injured, but they now have a new problem at hand. They need to fix the distortion in time and space that connects Lagendia and Mistland. Sentinel began to collect the shattered Monolith while Tempest tried whatever he could to close the openings.
The shattered Monolith is gathered, but as it is irreparable, Sentinel had no other choice but to leave it as it is. He fused some of his power to make sure the Monolith remain functional as it possibly could. Sentinel then head to where Tempest is, to help Tempest with his task and ask Tempest to fuse some of his power to the Monolith as well.
Tempest on the other hand, tried to fix the ripped fabric of time and space, a very exhausting and delicate work, even for a dragon. As he proceed to close the connection between the two worlds one after another, A huge power burst out from one of the opening, damaging Tempest and pushing him back. As Tempest regained his composure, he saw The Beyond dragon, Void, forcefully break through the opening and entered Lagendia.
Void, having entered Lagendia, began to destroy everything in its wake, leveled a whole mountain and razing a sea of forest with ease. He also widened the opening between the two worlds, making the chaotic and abyssal mist from Mistland entered Lagendia. But thanks to Sentinel work at the Monolith, the residents of Mistland are still unable to cross.
Tempest battled against Void, Preventing him from further damaging Lagendia. Tempest who can control 4 elements (Earth, Fire, Water, and Wind) as well as light magic, fought against Void who can control darkness are capable of controlling gravity, time and poison. Tempest slowly being pushed back and over powered by void. As Void charge towards Tempest, he was heavily hit by a concentrated Light magic. Sentinel has arrived to help Tempest.
Together with the badly injured Tempest, Sentinel fought against Void with his pure magic and holy attribute elements. The combined power of Sentinel and Tempest managed to push Void back to the opening. But the damaged Beyond dragon got enraged and charges blindly and rush towards the two dragons.
The battle continued fiercely, the whole Lagendia feels the quake of clashing powers between the three dragons. The badly injured Tempest and Sentinel united their magic in the form of a breath attack to finish Void, but Void, noticed an opening when the dragons unleash their breath. He then concentrated his remaining power to fire his last breath, towards Tempest.
Void died from the impact of the dragon breath, his body destroyed in the process. Sentinel was glad, but when he looked at his brother, grief filled the air. His brother, who is badly injured, is now on the verge of death. The miasma from Void's last breath eats away Tempest body and soul. Sentinel tried everything he could with his Holy & Light magic, but to no avail. In the end, Tempest passed away. The remains of his body still bleeding and rotting away.
Void's soul, still angered from his defeat, entered Tempest body. Revived as Undead dragon with Void evil power at its core, the undead Tempest charged towards Sentinel. Sentinel, fight and defeated Void who has taken his beloved brother body. He shed tears as he delivered the final blow to kill Void.
Sentinel lied in grief over Tempest dead body, when suddenly Tempest body starts to glow a dark aura. Void's power is still lingering inside; shattered the body into 8 lustres and spread into the whole world, damaging Sentinel in the process.
Due to the damage he received from the battle and the lustre, Sentinel split his power and created two new dragons. The Gold dragon and Silver dragon, The Gold dragon is given the task to collect all 8 lustre and seal them so that Void fragments of power won't be misused and to prevent Void to be resurrected. While the Silver dragon carries the mission to protect the Monolith.
IV. The Aftermath
The Ancients populations are dwindling after the battle against the dragons. And when the corrupted ancients come back to their homeland, a civil war broke out thus severing the population once more. The survivor of that war disappeared.
With the Monolith shattered, not only that the dimensional balance of time and space is distorted. A lot of life forms and items began to take place in the gap of the connection world such as Fragment of dimensional gem, The dimensional key, Abyssal bunnies and also the existence of Abyssal realm which is being researched by humans known as Heraldry Scholars, while a group of maiden keeping Abyssal realm from fully entering Lagendia, The priestess of darkness.
The Abyssal realm is the manifestation of the fused world of Lagendia and Mistland. That mirror world is then connected to Lagendia with the remnants of Void power when he crossed the openings of the world. As the name tells, Abyssal realm created abyss space in a lot of place in Lagendia, evolving the creatures that lived there to become evil beast and monsters, carving for power and destruction.
The Monolith, on the other note, is a medium which connects Altea's power and Lagendia. With the Monolith Shattered, Altea can't fully control the peace and balance of the world. After the dragon's battle, Lagendia are severed with most of the land either destroyed or corrupted by Void or undead Tempest blood. But thanks to Sentinel fused power inside the Monolith, Lagendia slowly heals.
Without Altea's watching over, the human population starts to grow. The humans then sent out armies to explore Lagendia. They settled in a place and built their own kingdom at their very capital, Saint Haven.
-Being the direct descendants of the goddess altea, Elves, who are supposedly immortals, become mortals. But altea's blessings are still intact. Even in their mortal state, they age at a rather slow pace.
-Ancients are dragons' descendants, being a mortal with such power allowing them to live longer than ordinary human
V. Humans, Magic, and Conflicts
A few decades later, it is known that one of the Dragons lustre is discovered by a group of corrupted ancients. These ancients, still seeking destruction of the world, decided to create an artificial dragon out of that lustre. After a long time, they managed to create an artificial dragon. The Black Dragon of apocalypse, known as Karas. Due to the lustre power, the artificial dragon had the power of a pure dragon inside.
The newly created Karas then started to spread doom worldwide. Luckily, there's an ancient sage, Bishas Arnobius, traveling around the world. He will later fight and defeated Karas on his own, Forcing the black dragon to flee. Realizing that the world might fall into an even dire situation in the future, the sage then decided that he will look for apprentice, and teach them magic.
He then found 2 apprentices, Jacob & Marian, Teaching them magic as he knows it. His first apprentice is Jacob, to which he teach him about devine magic that comes directly from Altea and her blessing, associated with light elements. His second apprentice is Marian, he taught her about ancient magic, the magic to control and manipulate elements such as fire, ice, and darkness, as well as magic that doesn't carry an element or pure magic.
Not long after that, the sage passed away and his disciple continued on living. But Jacob & Marian didn't get along well. Persistent that their magic are the original and the right path of magical power of the world. This bad relation they both shared will be spread on as their teachings spread throughout the land.
They each established their own path of teachings, Marian became the founder of Fairystar, while Jacob created the Clerics Order. Under the guidance of first human magician, the human race rose in power, gaining the ability to manipulate elements and to display the might of Altea herself. But eventually, the sorceress of Fairystar and the clerics of the Clerics Order become at odds with each other and the long running conflict of the two sides carries on until the present.
VI. The Great Dragon Raid and The Six Heroes
50 years ago
The Black Dragon, Karas, returned and threatened Lagendia. This time, with the help of a former dark elf queen Elena, Karas raised an army consisted of a wide variety of monsters called the Red Army. Even humans are attracted by his power and became Karas followers who worked for the Black Dragon both openly and secretly, They're later known as Dragon Followers.
Gerraint the Gold Dragon, then sent out a call to arms to all of humanity. Gerraint led his own army against the Black Dragon and became the leader of the Six Heroes, which consisted of Velskud of Saint's Haven Royal Army, Barnac of the Free Adventurer's League, Karacule of the Dark Tower FairyStar Sorceresses, Nerwin of the Silver Crescent Archers, And Terramai of the Divine Knight.
Argenta, the Silver Dragon, was also involved in the war, though she refused to be grouped with them. She insisted that the combined power of Gerraint and her was enough to defeat the Black Dragon. She paid no attention to the 5 heroes and later helped to defend Saint Haven from the Red Army and Elena.
After a long and arduous war, the Six Heroes finally defeated the Black Dragon. But it was not without complications. Gerraint turned to his Gold Dragon form to duel the Black Dragon himself, and also lose his right eye. Barnac and Karacule felt betrayed at this revelation. After the Black Dragon was defeated, Velskud stole the Black Dragon Lustre. The other 5 heroes were too exhausted from the war and were unable to stop Velskud. Argenta and Gerraint fled the scene quickly afterwards.
The six heroes were horrified by Velskud betrayal, but they decided that it would be best to keep it a secret to avoid a huge uproar from the Saint Haven citizens and Royal family. Thus, history recorded the end of the war as the defeat of the Black Dragon due to the noble sacrifice of Velskud.
The blood that the Black Dragon shed created the catastrophic rain, covering the surrounding areas in a poisonous substance that not only killed its inhabitants, but also transformed them into undead.
Meanwhile, Karacule, Nerwin, Barnac, and the rest of the army during the Black Dragon Raid were also contaminated. Many more would perish under the illness caused by the catastrophic rain.
The remaining four heroes then headed to Riverwort Wharfs. By this time, Nerwin had already hastily left for Anu Arandiel, Hometown of the elves. After a short bid of farewells, Terramai returned to Saint Haven and became the pontiff of the Divine Knights. Karacule went back to Dark Tower to train new sorceress and retired to Riverwort Wharfs while seeking for a cure to her illness. And Barnac headed towards Tel Numera with the small party he created.