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    In a world known as Naturaria a goddess, known to her subjects as “Mother Nature”, strives to maintain the balance of her world and care for the humans who inhabit it.

                The humans, also known as Adepts, lived mostly in peace under Mother Nature’s watch. Each Adept could control one of the twelve elements of their world, and utilize the elements for both battle and a variety of other ways.

                Humans generally lived in small villages scattered across Naturaria because Mother Nature forbade them from living in large cities; she told them that this was because she wanted them to keep some dependency on her. Though the humans protested this, saying that they would always be loyal to her, Mother Nature would not change her mind.

                There were places in Naturaria where the energy of each of the elements was strongest; these were also places where Mother Nature communicated with the Adepts. To keep themselves close to Mother Nature, the humans built shrines in the places where Mother Nature communicated with them and regarded the shrines as sacred ground.

                A day came when Mother Nature ceased to communicate with the Adepts, and the Adepts were unable to understand why. They weren't sure if they had angered her in some way, and they began to pray at the shrines regularly to try and reestablish contact with her, but their prayers were in vain.

                Loss of contact with Mother Nature took a harsh enough toll of the Adepts, but their troubles did not stop there. Great calamities began to strike Naturaria; it seemed as though every village fell victim to a different plague. The Adepts fought against the calamities and desperately prayed to Mother Nature for assistance, but she never answered their prayers, and more people fell victim to the calamites with each passing day. The Adepts eventually gave up on Mother Nature and ceased praying to her, causing her to slowly fade away into nothing more than distant memory.

                Without Mother Nature to aid them, the Adepts continued to lose their lives to the great calamities. Some Adepts fell victim to disease and poison, some to floods or blizzards, and others met fates that were worse still. A few Adepts still made regular trips to the shrines, offering prayers and gifts to Mother Nature, but she still remained silent. Eventually even the most loyal Adepts gave up and abandoned their cause with nothing more than a sense of isolation and abandonment, like a bunch of old toys that Mother Nature had just thrown away or helplessly abandoned like a once-loyal pet.

                Although their situation was bleak, the Adepts still didn't lose hope. There were even some who still believed that Mother Nature hadn't abandoned them, and thought that perhaps something had happened to her. In a small village nestled in the woods near the shrine dedicated to the element of Nature, there were a few Adepts who willing to try almost anything to get back in touch with Mother Nature and stop the calamities that plagued their world.