p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"In this world, there are connections between certain individuals that run deeper than their connections with others. Every individual will find three people who impact their lives more greatly than any other person; in either a positive way, a negative way, or both. These people are sometimes referred to as 'soulmates.'/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"strong id="docs-internal-guid-1c691b6a-bea5-a940-3192-be036cf8763a" style="font-weight: normal;" /strong/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Once, there was no way to tell when a person was going to impact their lives in such a great manner. It was only a matter of luck if someone found their soulmate before they died, and some people only found the people who negatively impacted their lives. Many believed that the concept of soulmates was just that: a concept./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"strong style="font-weight: normal;" /strong/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"In more recent years, through Minish magical research, it has become possible to give these connections tangible forms, allowing people to find their soulmates and know for certain that they are the one. When a child is born, a Minish mage will be brought in for the purpose of forming the solid forms of the child's future relationships. These forms always take the shape of one half of a disc, with a unique jagged edge, as though it were broken in half. The forms are currently known as 'kinstones.'/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"strong style="font-weight: normal;" /strong/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Three are formed, and they usually are either red, blue, or green. The red kinstones represent romantic love; the blue kinstones represent friendship and siblinghood; the green kinstones represent rivalry and malice. The variety of colors varies from person to person, with some having one of each color, and some having all the same./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"strong style="font-weight: normal;" /strong/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"There are a few anomalies that have been recorded: the appearance of gold kinstones and the appearance of fewer than three. A gold kinstone, it has been reported, represents admiration in the way that a pupil admires their mentor. When the mentor of the pupil dies, half of the completed gold kinstone disappears. The pupil is then going to pass on their mentor's knowledge to a pupil of their own, thus recompleting the gold kinstone again./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"strong style="font-weight: normal;" /strong/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"There is not much known about the appearance of fewer than three kinstones. It is unknown whether it is caused by simple bad luck on the child's part, or if the spell to form the kinstones was excessively draining for the Minish mage. Regardless of what the cause is, there is no recorded effect on the relationships represented by the kinstones that were formed./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"strong style="font-weight: normal;" /strong/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"There is no record of kinstones being damaged by time or mishandling. It is theorized that with enough magic, it is possible to break a kinstone. This theory is untested./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"- An excerpt from "The History of Kinstones," an essay by Ezlo Ruskin/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"strong id="docs-internal-guid-1c691b6a-bea5-a940-3192-be036cf8763a" style="font-weight: normal;" /strong/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Once, there was no way to tell when a person was going to impact their lives in such a great manner. It was only a matter of luck if someone found their soulmate before they died, and some people only found the people who negatively impacted their lives. Many believed that the concept of soulmates was just that: a concept./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"strong style="font-weight: normal;" /strong/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"In more recent years, through Minish magical research, it has become possible to give these connections tangible forms, allowing people to find their soulmates and know for certain that they are the one. When a child is born, a Minish mage will be brought in for the purpose of forming the solid forms of the child's future relationships. These forms always take the shape of one half of a disc, with a unique jagged edge, as though it were broken in half. The forms are currently known as 'kinstones.'/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"strong style="font-weight: normal;" /strong/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Three are formed, and they usually are either red, blue, or green. The red kinstones represent romantic love; the blue kinstones represent friendship and siblinghood; the green kinstones represent rivalry and malice. The variety of colors varies from person to person, with some having one of each color, and some having all the same./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"strong style="font-weight: normal;" /strong/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"There are a few anomalies that have been recorded: the appearance of gold kinstones and the appearance of fewer than three. A gold kinstone, it has been reported, represents admiration in the way that a pupil admires their mentor. When the mentor of the pupil dies, half of the completed gold kinstone disappears. The pupil is then going to pass on their mentor's knowledge to a pupil of their own, thus recompleting the gold kinstone again./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"strong style="font-weight: normal;" /strong/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"There is not much known about the appearance of fewer than three kinstones. It is unknown whether it is caused by simple bad luck on the child's part, or if the spell to form the kinstones was excessively draining for the Minish mage. Regardless of what the cause is, there is no recorded effect on the relationships represented by the kinstones that were formed./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"strong style="font-weight: normal;" /strong/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"There is no record of kinstones being damaged by time or mishandling. It is theorized that with enough magic, it is possible to break a kinstone. This theory is untested./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"- An excerpt from "The History of Kinstones," an essay by Ezlo Ruskin/span/p