Prologue: The Building Block of Life
The story is ancient. Long ago, nothing existed but a vast sea. Then, as if from nowhere, two titans appeared. The titans fought, and put each other into a state of hibernation. This may be a bit over simplified, but the story is as well known as it is old.
However, the newer parts were only recently written. The two titans were actually the shells of two gods, two gods that came from a world vastly different than our own. These gods had opposing ideals, and fought. One wished to destroy all life and create the world anew, the other wished to live alongside the life that already existed in harmony. The gods fought for these ideals, but they defeated each other, sending one another into a state of idleness. The existing life used the shells of these gods as their homes, forming cultures and colonies. This continued for thousands of years. But it was not to last.
Each god had a powerful weapon, known as a Monado, that could manipulate the very building blocks of life – ether. These powerful weapons could bend and control reality. One of these Monados found its way into the hands of the Homs – a group of life that lived on one of the shells. Through the use of this weapon, this Monado, the gods were awakened and released once more. The gods fought again, but this time one god killed the other. The victor was the god who wished to destroy all life.
But a group of heroes came together and fought the god. They seemed hopelessly outmatched, however the god, in his plans to awaken and destroy all life, unwittingly created a new god. This new god, a Homs named Shulk, was in the group that fought him. Shulk unlocked his power as a god in the fight with the god and, with the help of his friends, killed the god. Shulk then took the two Monados the god had, and with his own, newly acquired Monado, created a new world, a world with no need for gods. But can a world truly exist without some kind of deity?
The powers of a god were the powers to bend and manipulate ether – just like the Monados could do. All life is made of ether, and when Shulk created his new world he bent and twisted the ether in ways that only a god could do. This new world had only one Monado – Shulk's – and no gods. However the very fabric of all life – ether – was still around. The Monado still had the same power to control the ether, though no one knew how to use it to its fullest extent. Not even Shulk.
Shulk's new world may have been without a "god," but that did not mean that there were no more powerful enemies. It didn't mean that there was no more evil in the world. Because there was. An evil so great, so ancient, and so powerful that even the gods of old feared it. They locked it away, and sealed its powers. Supposedly no one could ever open the seal. But the gods never counted on the world being remade the way it was...
I know it's short, but that's what prologues are, right? Well, sometimes. Future chapters will be longer, don't worry. This isn't an example of the length of future chapters, just some backstory. And I know that it's hard to leave a review for just a prologue, but if you could make the effort, it would make my day. Seriously, I'd be ecstatic.