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"To forget that the Saints are two within themselves, is to forget their true nature. Beware. This is unlike the story that was given to them. This is the story of the nature they gained. How a choice can become an eternal curse, one that they each carry on their backs like glorious wings. One that they carry on their skin with each blessed scar.
This is the story of the dawn of the Harbingers."
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"It started with the Rising War. More accurately— right before the FirstSaints decided to wage was against the Goddess A'Sozdat.
You see, as you may recall, the Z'pel— Golden Obsidian— was produced after the Creator Goddess A'Sozdat touched the midnight blue Immortal Flame in an attempt to heal herself from a mysterious illness that was killing her, and her domain of Rai. What she didn't know, however, was that her husband whom she loved dearly— A'Velós, ruler of Naav and keeper of the Immortal flame— had been the one who made his wife fall ill. His hope was to have her become so desperate that she'd try and steal the Immortal Flame, so then he could trap her and wait until she was weak enough so that he could merge her with the Immortal Flame and use the new power to conquer all that was.
To his surprise, however, A'Sozdat realized that if she grew weak enough within the prison where she was kept, which was build to hold extreme power, she could escape. When she did, she went straight to the Immortal Flame to ask for healing, but instead of healing her from her illness, it consumed her fully as A'Velós had planned.
Legend says that her fury and her pain and her suffering were so strong that the Immortal Flame turned from a midnight blue to a deadly amber as it grew and grew until it consumed Naav, all of its inhabitants, and A'Velós himself. The Flame was no longer the Immortal Flame, no longer fully A'Sozdat, but rather, taking a new name of Lumbra Veyda. Life's Fire.
Life's Fire continued to grow out of control until it consumed A'Sozdat's own plain of Rai and its inhabitants as well as everything in between. Only when everything was consumed in Life's Fire did she finally begin to settle and cool, thus leaving the Z'Pel or Golden Obsidian in its wake.
When the Z'Pel formed. A'Sozdat was made anew and freed from the crystallized flame. It was only from her rage and her hunger for power after seeing the worlds she had erased, that she decided to birth the Ági'svy— the Saints. It was from this Golden Obsidian substance that the Saints were born.
All they knew for the first eons of their existence was that they had each lived what was referred to as a "Prima Veyda"— a first life— in which they had families and entire lives. They believed they each had loved and suffered immensely in those lives and that, through their suffering in their first life, they were chosen by A'Sozdat to ascend to Sainthood after their deaths or ascensions. A'Sozdat lead them to believe that their Sainthood was a reward for all they had suffered and that she'd been the one to grant said blessing to them.
