Part I - The Prodigal Son


    Life...


    Since the dawn of time, it has raced forward, striving for unreachable extremes....


    ...From unparalleled Peace and Prosperity...


    ...to the utter annihilation of it''s own existence...


    Amidst this headlong rush, a people arose on a small world, calling themselves the Atlans. These people built a great empire, which spanned the stars....This tale has been unlawfully obtained from Royal Road. If you discover it on Amazon, kindly report it.


    ...However, not much is now known of these great people. Legends tell of wondrous technology, and say that the Elements of Nature themselves were under the Atlans control....


    ...No one knows why the Atlans disappeared, or what happened to them. Only the Storytellers and Loremasters remember them now. These tell legends of great wars and catastrophes that wiped out these once great civilization....


    ...However, History has an unnatural way of repeating itself, and of re-opening old legends....


    ...Time Marches On,


    And life continues...


    --Tristan Telgan (Prologue to the Journal of Aralistran History, Atlan Year 7,043)