Kelium: Snake Nest

All stories have a beginning - ours was written by The Mother of Gods herself. Whispers in the wind tell stories, how Ameera, mother to all, took pure kelium, as if it ran through our lands like liquid, and wrote the "Origina" books with it. Kelium obeyed her, laying down in letters, taking the form of common ink.

There's a reason we call the "Origina" - blood-born. Kelium is the blood of our lands, it runs wild and deep, only few are able to master a small freckle of its power. Written in pure "blood of L'arc" the "Origina" books were said to be infused with so much magic, old and new, that the three existing manuscripts had to be separated and held on different edges of L'arc, ensuring their energies will never clash.

First thing you would learn in Ms Blish's class of L'arc history would be the story of the "Origina" books. Of course she loves emphasizing that if even two of the books were to be in the same room we'd all be in danger of being consumed by the Darkness.

You see, the "Origina" were written before gods were born, before me or you would even have a chance to be born into the light of L'arc. Mother of all wrote the books as "what's yet to happen", even if the stories in them became legends as time passed. However, it is common knowledge that before there was light L'arc was a place of death and despair and even kelium was corrupted and evil to its thinnest veins.

Now, what's up with the history discourse?

Thing is, our story begins exactly when the "Origina" book under the protection of headmistress Afagonia goes missing.