The Legend of Vay


​Everything started with the Fool.

​He was a simple man who had a pregnant wife, a horse, and a few sheep. And they say because he didn’t know any better, the Fool stumbled upon a way of talking with the animals and plants, and even with the rocks and the nothingness in the air.

​He had discovered the secret language of the world.
As with most everyone in the First Era, the Fool believed that the universe was divided into four equal elements – water, earth, fire, and wind. And he knew that this secret language was threaded throughout them all, keeping everything together and balanced.

There had been others throughout history who had also learned this speech of the Gods, prophets and sages. They named it the Hand because they said they could feel it more than they could hear it. But the Fool did something that had never been done before. He didn't just speak the language. He made a translator.
They called it the Medallion.
​By using the Medallion, anyone could speak the language of the world, and therefore tell it what to do. That person would have complete power over people’s emotions, memories, even life and death. Just as the Gods would make the rains fall and the seeds grow and the wind blow, so too could someone with the Medallion have the power of the Gods.
​But even though the Fool discovered the Medallion, he didn’t do much with it. He even forgot about it, they say. It was his pregnant wife who took it and used it since she was much smarter than he was. She fell in love with the Medallion, and soon forgot her love for her husband. And even before their child was born, she left the Fool and set off alone to use her new abilities.
​The first thing the Fool’s wife did was to ask the Medallion to make all men fall in love with her by a single look. And it did just that.
It didn’t take long for rumors of her powers to spread. And when her daughter was born, the baby also learned to use the Medallion before she could even speak. She was a generous child, and used her power to create feasts of food for the hungry. Soon, poverty altogether faded into memory.
​With the Fool long gone and forgotten, his wife took a new husband. He was a famous warrior with strength and influence. This man also learned to use the Medallion, but in a different way - he defeated all sicknesses. With the Medallion, hate vanished, pain was destroyed, and weapons became a relic to wonder at.
​Those who were best at conversing with the translator were called the first Magicians, led by the wife of the Fool, her new husband, and her daughter. Along with another eight, these eleven mystics became the first Magician’s Order. And they were so gifted at discoursing with the Medallion, that some of them even had foresight.
​But this perfect world would not last. Because when the Magicians gazed into the future, the Medallion showed visions of a powerful Enemy who would come, an Enemy that could swallow up all life.
​At first no one believed these warnings. But soon, the ice of the Realm of Darkness spread and drank up the seas. All the fresh rivers and lakes became poisoned. The plants dried up with their seeds rotted. People went hungry. And then there was the plague - it spread from one town to the next, leaving entirely dead cities. It was an Enemy no one could run from.
​The Magicians tried to learn a way to stop the Enemy through the Medallion’s revelations. But they couldn’t find anything except a vision of themselves with no powers, no Medallion at all. It was as if the Hand were speaking to them, and it said to stop asking.
​And then, in what was like a heartbeat in the world’s history, virtually all life had died.
​There was only one place that still had water, plants, and life. It was a hidden valley surrounded by a ring of mountains called the Valley of Helúvía, and the Medallion showed that only there would life live on. 
So the Magicians gathered the remaining people of all four corners of the world to come together in a great march to the mountains. They brought with them all the animals they could find, and all the seeds they could carry to grow their crops. But once everyone had arrived in the valley, the dark clouds of a storm blew in from the mountain peaks, and they knew that the Enemy had found its way even to Helúvía.
​The last of the Magicians went out into the fury of the storm to stop the Enemy. As they rode, the wind nearly blew them from their horses, and lightning scarred a smoldering circle around them. They galloped forth holding out the Medallion to shield them, though it seemed to do nothing, until they saw something black moving in the distance. It was a horse racing fiercely towards them.
Someone was riding that horse – a man half frozen, holding on only by tying his arm into its mane. And when the Magicians finally caught the horse and cut the man to the ground, his former wife shrieked when she recognized him as the Fool.

​While the man lay dying, he commanded the others to give him the Medallion. And at the very moment the Fool took it into his hands, the world stopped turning.
Then, all things went dark.
The sun disappeared. Earthquakes shook the ground, crumbling the tops of mountains, knocking the trees over, until a great light erupted through the Fool’s hand while he shattered the Medallion into four pieces. And just as he did so, lying on the ground with his death near at hand, the sun came back and the dark clouds lifted.
By creating four pieces from one Medallion, the Enemy had been destroyed.
The Magicians crowded around this man who was now more a sage than a fool. And just before death took him, he spoke his last words about the pieces in his hands, which had become their own separate Medallions. Each was a quarter of the size of the first, and each a quarter of its power. But instead of being a full pendant, now they were hollow rings which he called Chakrams.

​The four Chakrams represented the four elements – water, earth, fire, and wind.
​The Fool told the Magicians to protect these rings, for he had seen the future. And finally, he revealed to them a prophesy that is now known as The Chorus of Yúvíum.
What the prophesy truly means, no one to this day knows, because as he finished the Chorus, the Fool died.

But those who study the histories of this world believe it has foretold that the One True Mage will one day combine the four Chakrams together again, and the great powers of the Gods that once were, will return to reign over the earth.
This One True Mage is known as the Yúvíum.