From the beginning of time there have always been four places in permanence. The Worlds, and The In-Betweens. There are two worlds; The Shadow World for which much knowledge is lost, and The Other World, or ours. The In-Betweens are Euphoria and the Winterlands. All souls that have tasted life have been through Euphoria, or the Heavens. There are only ever a handful of new souls in Being at once. The Winterlands are where souls are imprisoned when they commit unspeakable acts. No one may leave, unless another soul takes his place.
In the beginning, Four Winds were in place. One for each place of immortal being. The Northern Wind, the most beautiful of the four, took to represent the Shadow World. The Southern Wind, the wisest of the four, took for the Other World. The Eastern Wind, the saddest of the four, took the Winterlands. The Western Wind, the most lighthearted, and perhaps the most foolish, took for Euphoria.
They were in charge for making the souls for Euphoria, and when the soul would make the journey into a World. They were also in charge of imprisoning souls in the Winterlands.
The Northern Wind, her name being Calla, wanted her part of Being to have wonders beyond imagination. She decided to make a King and a Queen to rule her World. She went to the river of Werther and took ivory white clay from Werther's riverbed, and formed two beautiful people in her image. The Queen she named Tatiana and the King she named Oberon. She left them with animals; being beautiful she didn't want to do anything that might damage that. Tatiana was just as vain as her creator, and begged Calla to make more souls for her world, so that they might be able to eat and have good food. Calla agreed, and formed these new souls out of hard soil so that they would be strong, good workers. They were not as beautiful as the King and Queen, but not as vain. They worked hard.
The Southern Wind, Sothy, saw her sister's work, and thought little of it. Oberon and Tatiana were beautiful, vain, lazy people, and Sothy did not want her world to be like that. Sothy made souls for her world out of stars from Euphoria, so that they would shine happiness that came from such a place. The Western Wind, Lior, didn't care, and she thought this was a wonderful idea. She waited to make the true king and queen of her world, for she wanted to see if her Souls would do good by themselves.
The Eastern Wind, named Isolde, did not make souls for her place. She knew that the Winterlands, cold, hard, and unhospitable, would never be a place for souls. She mourned the fact, and in that, made the world colder. Isolde asked her sisters to allow some souls to come to the place. Calla, Sothy, and Lior didn't want souls to be in torture. Sothy thought that the souls should be able to come back from her world and Calla's world, so that they can experience Euphoria. Only the True Kings and Queens of the Worlds can open the Winterlands and banish people to there.
Lior, being the youngest, was given the easiest place. In Euphoria, all is well, and not one thing can change that.
Many centuries had passed and Sothy finally made the True King of The Other World. He came, and went, only to return again, when true life can reign.
Now Lior, from the beginning, made a pair of souls, only to come at time of dire need. When they finally came, not even she could remember what their original purpose was. One was porcelain and midnight, the other, chocolate and sunlight. Sothy sent them through a labyrinth, one of them to the right, the other to the left. When they met in the middle, there was a tree. Calla's voice then instructed them to take an apple from the tree. The one like sunlight picked a golden one, and the one like moonlight picked a silver one. The one like moonlight gave the one like sunlight her silver one. Isolde instructed them to pick names for one another. The one like Sunlight picked Fiona for her sister, for she wanted beauty in the world. The one like Moonlight picked Olivia for her sister, for she wanted peace in the world.
Lior's voice came from all sides. There was a scream from the one like Sunlight and she was gone. Lior said "Foolish one, for you can't have what will never be." The one like Moonlight stared into the silver apple her sister had left behind.
Sothy appeared next to Moonlight and said "You are here for a reason. You are the Marksman, the Bow, the Shaft, and the Arrowhead. You will save or destroy. But either will bring peace. For your name now means peace. Your sister, who's name means beauty will stay in the Shadow world. But please, this is not just for where you shall be, it's for everywhere."
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