Prologue: Story of the Goddess and the Enchanter
The legend of the star-crossed lovers, the goddess and the enchanter, has been around for centuries and was passed down from ancestors to descendants. The sun goddess Alexa was a young goddess, merely 19-years old, tasked with the duties of keeping the sun running its proper times, as well as looking over the sky in the daytime. He was a warlock who only appeared at night from his lair, mysterious and enigmatic. The two were never intended to meet, but fate had intervened due to a delay on her part.
She was sent down with a request from the moon goddess, her twin sister Madeline, to retrieve moonstones. He had come out from his sorcerer's lair to pick herbs. They chanced to meet each other at dawn when she, in her hurry, spilled all her moonstones on the ground. He saw the lady picking her gems up and offered to help. He was wearing a long black cloak, so all the goddess could see were his eyes, glowing bright green, more luminous and radiant than the stones she held. The green orbs captivated her and she wanted so desperately to know what secrets they held. Now, no one really knew the identity of the young sorcerer, so she did not recognize him at first.
Arthur, the sorcerer, was really rather young himself, at the age of 23, and did not see through her disguise, possibly due to surprise. (Then again goddess powers are stronger than mortal sight.) But he was rumored to be greatly gifted at elemental magic. In any case, they fell in love almost immediately. However, Alexa had to return to the sky in the daytime, and Arthur could not appear in the daytime either. So they met at night secretly, for a period of time, until the other gods noticed her absences.
The ocean god, Kiku, discovered her sneaking away and reported it to the earth god, Yao, who punished the two lovers and revealed their true selves to each other. He declared that goddess Alexa was to be reborn into a human body, devoid of her prior memories as a deity, and cursed sorcerer Arthur into the form of a bird as well as removing his memories. However, after much pleading from Madeline, he relented and softened their sentences. They would both be reborn, Arthur would be a bird only at night(he got to stay human in the daytime), and they would be given one last chance to meet before he carried out their punishments. At Madeline's request, the gods also consented to let her be Alexa's guardian, as her sister.
Pitying her, the oracle Heracles secretly told Alexa that if she were to meet Arthur again in the next life, and if they were able to figure out their connection to each other, her memories and deity status would slowly return, and he would be free of his curse, but not mentioning how they would go about accomplishing this task. The gods allowed the two lovers to meet for the last time, all the while never mentioning that Heracles had said that both paths were destined to cross again, before wiping clean their memories and sending them to the farthest ends of the world.
And so the story begins.