Prologue
Long ago, before the age of man, existed an all-powerful goddess by the name of Vesta. This goddess created the present world of Crystallos. She created luscious forests, dazzling ice caverns, majestic mountain ranges, ever-flowing rivers, glistening lakes, and vast oceans. To inhabit the land, Vesta also created a variety of animals that adapted to their respective environments. At first, Vesta was overjoyed but she quickly realized that she had failed to create beings that she could communicate and interact with on a more personal level than with the mute animals. To remedy this, she created humans in her own image, but she removed herself from Crystallos to allow the humans to develop and evolve. After some years had passed, and her creations had established thriving life, communication, and structure, Vesta took on a human form and decided to live amongst the people. While on Crytallos, Vesta travelled far and wide to fully experience all the landscapes, all the sights, everything that the humans had to offer while living on the land she granted them. During her travels, she also made sure to spread the story of the creator goddess, but unbeknownst to the people, she was telling the story of her life.
Despite her being a goddess, in her human for Vesta was susceptible to all the same emotions humans were, especially love. When she visited the forest continent of Viridi, Vesta met a man who, just like herself, was a world traveler with no settled home. The man was an enigma to Vesta, so during her time in Viridi, the two would often exchange stories of their lives and adventures. Eventually, they fell in love, but the man was unaware of Vesta's secret. One night, while under a star filled sky, the man proposed to Vesta, which forced her to tell him the truth of who she really was. At first, the man refused to believe her, but after performing a miracle in the forest, he believed Vesta and still accepted her. The two decided to marry, and together, Vesta and her husband had eight children, all of whom were born as Demi-Gods with incredible magical abilities.
Not long after the birth of their eighth child, a terrible, unidentified illness befell Vesta's husband leading to his untimely death. Struck with grief, Vesta decided to return to her true home in the Cosmos where she would be far away enough from human affairs while still keeping on an eye on her beloved creations. However, before leaving, she offered for her children to join her so that they would not have to live through what she did, and they could all live in peace, happiness, and harmony in the sky. The children refused the offer and elected to stay on Crystallos to live amongst the humans. Vesta respected her children's decision so left them on their own. The children lived amongst the humans, travelled, and even had families of their own. And thus, magic was spread across Crystallus.
For many years to come, the children born into the world who were descendants of Vesta and her eight children were born with innate magical abilities. Yet, with this ability, there were those who were noble and used their powers for good, and those who used their powers for malevolence, destruction, and selfishness. Many humans were abusing their powers, which upset Vesta as she watched it all unfold from the Cosmos, but she also saw humans using their powers with noble intent. And so not wanting to punish the entirety of mankind and strip them of their magical powers, Vesta decided to seal away her eight children to stop the spread of magical beings. She imprisoned them in crystals, which she hid all around the world in different continents where they would be easily discovered. And while this did dramatically decrease the number of magic users in Crystallos, it could not stop everything. The more powerful magic users, the mages, formed an evil organization known as The Magicae. The leaders of the Magicae spread across each continent, established military forces, and outlawed magic use for civilians. They even enslaved citizens in order to find the lost crystals of Vesta's children in order to obtain unlimited power. However, when Vesta sealed them away, she anticipated the sinful mages coming for them, and so she created a seal where only the chosen ones would be able to find the crystals. And so it seemed as if the crystals had been lost forever..