At the beginning of all things, the Supreme God, omnipotent being and creator of all existence, shaped seven primordial beings to preserve the balance between all his creations.

They were called the Seven Archangels:

• The Archangel of the Divine Order.

• The Archangel of Light.

• The Archangel of Darkness.

• The Archangel of Truth.

• The Archangel of War.

• The Archangel of Punishment.

• The Archangel of Time.

Among them, Yshvar, Archangel of the Divine Order, was the wisest and most loved. Faithful to the Most High, he observed the universe with flawless attention.

But over the millennia, a new creation of the Supreme God caught his eye: man.

First fascinated, he gradually became disgusted by their hypocrisy, their violence, and their greed.

One day, he presented himself before the Supreme God and asked for their annihilation.

But the Most High refused.

Disappointed by this refusal, Yshvar fell.

He stole the Dasein Heart, one of the primordial stones, key to a forgotten world and sealed by God himself.

The other Archangels pursued him. Their hunt lasted for years, crossing galaxies and dimensions. Their fights shook the stars and broke entire worlds.

But during a confrontation, Yshvar merged with the Dasein Heart and was sucked into the forbidden world of the Dark Abysses.

The Archangels returned to the Supreme God, imploring him to open the doors of the Abyss to destroy him.

But God remained silent and simply ordered them to observe.

Centuries later, Yshvar opened the gates of the Abyss on Earth.

From these bowels sprouted the kings of the Abyss "the Twelve Apocalypses", accompanied by countless nightmarish creatures.

The world sank into great desolation.

The heavens bled, nations crumbled like withered leaves, the earth howled in agony, and the oceans spat out corpses.

For many years, the earth's surface was devastated... but God remained silent.

But in the face of the desperate prayers of the Archangels and men, the Most High finally acted.

He then chose five women to bear, who would carry in their wombs the future saviors of humanity.

Five children, bearers of divine marks, fragments of His power.

The Archangel of Light came down to announce the prophecy of the Five:

"Five children will be born to break this cycle of suffering. "

Ten years later, the promised children were born:
• Raiden, the child of the Light.

• Kaelis, the child of Darkness.

• Sylpha, the child of the Spirits.

• Garran, the child of the Force.

• Valen, the child of the Stars.

Raiden, Kaelis, Sylpha and Valen were raised by the Church, at the heart of the last human kingdom still standing: the Kingdom of Durkis.

As for Garran, he was born free into a nomadic martial tribe, forged by blood and trials.

The years passed, and their power became terrifying.

Garran was acclaimed by the warriors of his tribe, multiplying the exploits.

Raiden, Kaelis, Sylpha, and Valen each walked their own path, their powers growing with every passing day.

But the Church feared this power. It feared the influence of these divine children.

So she decided to break them, and transform them into docile tools.

The pillar of the group was Raiden.

All saw in him a brother of heart, a leader.

It is therefore him that the Church took as its target.

When the four divine children were fifteen years old, the Church wanted them to be forced to reproduce.

But Raiden stood up and firmly opposed this order.

Except that by doing this, Raiden was completely unaware that he had just fallen into the trap set by the Church.

Pretending to find common ground, the Church promised Raiden not to use his companions only if he agreed to do everything to give them an heir.

So, in order not to see the people he considered his brothers suffer... Raiden accepted this proposal.

From this constraint was born a girl: Aryna.

Broken because of the means used for reproduction, Raiden turned away from the other heroes and became the docile weapon of the Church.

Kaelis, Sylpha and Valen tried to reason with him, but in vain. 
Then, feeling betrayed, they left his way and took their own paths, thirsty for power.

The years still passed.

Raiden had a son, Kephran, from an forced marriage.

But while humanity regained hope thanks to the reconquests led by the four heroes, a nameless shadow swept away their dreams: one Apocalypse decided to attack them.

Without the slightest effort, he alone devastated the entire last human kingdom.

Not feeling the slightest resistance in the front, he decapitated every member of the royal family and the Church.
And for his own pleasure, he exhibited their heads in show on the ramparts of the capital.

The heroes, away on a mission, rushed back to the capital to face the Apocalypse.

But the power gap was such that they were broken and humiliated in an instant.

While all hope seemed lost, the Apocalypse looked at them like insects... and left, sparing them.

After weeks of convalescence, the survivors, orphans of king and clergy, appointed Raiden as the new king.

Thus was born the future Great Empire of Ingrissia.

After his accession to the throne, Raiden asked his former companions for forgiveness, and renewed his ties with them. 

Together the heroes, rebuilt the capital little by little while ensuring the stability of the population.

Meanwhile, Valen went on an expedition, met Garran, the fifth child of the prophecy.

A titanic battle broke out in them, but the longer the fight went on, the more they felt a strange familiarity with each other.

After weeks of intense confrontation, no one knew the real winner of this duel.

But thanks to this duel, the two heroes created a particular affinity. So, Valen decided to invite Garran and his entire tribe to Ingrissia.

Valen then introduced Garran to the other heroes... and that's how the five children of the prophecy were finally reunited.

Subsequently, the five heroes fought countless battles across the continent, and at the same time discovered new unknown lands.

They increased their power exponentially, thus preparing to face Yshvar, this fallen god among men, whose power surpassed that of the Apocalypses.

The years passed like a burning breath. Under the banner of the five heroes, humanity gradually took back the lands engulfed by darkness.

Raiden, Kaelis, Sylpha, Garran and Valen were torches of glory and power.

Each battle won brought a breath of hope.
Each victory forged the legend of the five saviors.

The Ingrissia Empire, guided by Raiden's firm and luminous hand, covered almost the entire extent of the continent.

The peoples knolt down, the fallen cities were rebuilt, and the silver banner of the Empire of Ingrissia soon covered almost the entire continent.

But despite the land reconquered, the shadow of Yshvar still persisted.

The Thousand Wonders Forest was once a sacred place filled with magic and life. But since Yshvar made it her home, it has transformed into a perfect habitat for powerful monsters. A place where light never entered, and where rivers were tinged with blood. Even the once blue sky was tinged with an eternal purple.

It was therefore called the Black Forest, a cursed kingdom where neither wind nor light dared to penetrate.

The heroes knew that the world would never know peace as long as Yshvar lived.

So, the five heroes prepared for a final expedition. An army of more than a million men and women, knights, magicians and warriors from all the conquered lands, was gathered under the banner of the Empire.

Everyone knew that it would not be a simple battle... but the final battle, where humanity would play all its cards.

The day before departure, Raiden gathers his children in the garden of their family home.

When Aryna and Kephran arrived in front of their father, they knelt down and listened carefully to these words.

After Raiden's words, Aryna and Kephran swore together to honor these words.

A few more days, the heroes and the huge army set off, and after two long weeks of march they reached the gates of the Black Forest.

And at the dawn of the day following their arrivals, chaos broke out.

The Black Forest lit up with flames, screams and magic.

The ground trembled under a million steps.

The sky ignited under the cannons of Valen's flying ships.

The cry of the monsters covered the thunder of the swords.

The clashes lasted several days, gaining in intensity at each moment. The soldiers fell by the thousands, but the heroes, like living gods, continued to advance without retreating.

One of the Twelve Apocalypse appeared on the battlefield, massacring thousands of soldiers in the blink of an eye.

Valen then decided to stay back and stood up to face him, alone… and a titanic duel that shook heaven and earth began.

The other heroes went to the heart of the forest... where Yshvar was waiting for them.

When the heroes arrived at the heart of the forest, they fell head to head with a being they could not describe, but with his presence alone, they knew that it was going to be a confrontation where they had to give everything from the beginning to have a chance to survive.

That day, the fight that followed tore the world apart, a confrontation exceeding that of the legends themselves.

The earth, the sky, the seas were shaking.

The shock waves crossed the continents, and space itself cracked.

After several days of intense confrontation, a huge pillar of light visible in the four corners of the globe pierced the sky and climbed to the stars.

The portals connecting the earth to the Abyss closed, and the monsters retreated into the depths of the forest.

Seeing this huge pillar of light, Kephran, who had stayed in the capital, decided to immediately send thousands of soldiers and all the remaining flying ships to the rescue of the survivors.

When the ships arrived, a scene of horror was offered itself to their eyes.

There are barely ten thousand survivors out of the million who went to the front.

Kaelis, Sylpha, Garran and Valen were found in critical condition.

Despite all the efforts made by the rescue, no trace of Raiden and Aryna was found.

No one knew what happened between Raiden and Yshvar... 

Only the four surviving heroes carried the truth... a truth that could not be said.

When the rescue ships left the Black Forest with the few remaining survivors of this war, an immense mourning enveloped the continent.

The funeral bells rang for weeks, an unprecedented mourning to honor the souls who fell in the Black Forest. 

But more than the loss of a million lives, it was the disappearance of the hero king Raiden and his daughter Aryna that marked the minds.

The banner of the Empire of Ingrissia was soaked in tears and blood.

But, after Yshvar disappearance, the four remaining heroes disappeared in turn.

• Garran, nicknamed the martial god, was last seen in the direction of the icy lands to the North.

• Valen, nicknamed the magic god, was last seen in the west of the kingdom, but suddenly disappeared without a trace.

• Sylpha, nicknamed the queen of spirits, disappeared with Kaelis, nicknamed the god of darkness. They were last seen together at the gates of the capital before completely disappearing from the radar.

The world then entered a new era.

After the disappearance of Yshvar and the five heroes, an invisible barrier enveloped the black forest. This barrier allowed people to enter the forest, but it never let anyone come out.

The forest seemed to devour anyone who tried to discover its secrets.

Despite this, having remained the sole heir of Raiden, Kephran, son of the Light, decided to take up arms.

At the head of the Empire, he led incessant campaigns, eradicating all the monsters that remained outside the Black Forest.

During his reign, the Empire of Ingrissia extended over the entire continent, unifying all the surviving peoples under a single banner.

Kephran generated heirs, built cities, erected statues in honor of the five great heroes.

Then, one day, he disappeared in turn… accompanied by his two most faithful soldiers, no one knew where he went.

But his name became legendary.


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My name is X.

Today I decided to tell you this legendary story according to my own knowledge.

Unfortunately my story is not entirely correct, and the main lines of the latter have disappeared over time.

Today, men know only a tiny part of the truth, and you who read my story, I wish that *****************