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Players: 7/9

[B]"You are free to sever the chains of Fate that bind you..."[/b] 

It has been sixteen thousand years since the Dragon Campaign ended, and humans took their future. Five thousand years ago, Dart Feld and his companions saved the world of Endiness from Melbu Frahma's plan of destruction. For years there was a comfortable peace between the nations of Serido, Tiberoa, and Mille Seseau. Hundreds of years later, war broke out. Man turned against man seemingly over night in a frenzied desire for carnage. No one could figure out why. That is until a what was considered a lost race resurfaced.
Mermaids.

They told the humans and what was left of the winglies that when the Moon That Never Sets crashed into the Tree of Life, the world's life began to crumble. The only thing that could save them now was, to everyone's surprise, the being of the 108th fruit; the Moon Child. 

Everyone knew the legends, old and new. Every 108th year, a child would be born with a special soul. The soul of a god. This child would bring peace and joy to Endiness. However, every time this occurred, a creature known as the Black Monster would kill and devour the god child. The cycle had supposedly gone full circle in the city of Neet when the Black Monster killed Princess Louvia, daughter of Queen Theresa, twin of Shana. The Black Monster made a mistake killing Louvia rather than Shana, leaving the Moon Child alive. They now know that the Moon Child was the bringer of destruction and the Black Monster was revealed to be Rose, the Dark Dragoon, who slew the Moon Child to prevent its ascension. This however was not entirely accurate. 
The Moon was not the true body of the Moon Child. Melbu Frahma was wicked and deceitful, he wanted the power of the god for himself. He created a psudo-body, the Moon That Never Sets, as a way to steal the Moon Child's power. When at last he was able to take the power, he sapped energy from the world to allow the transformation, using the Tree of Life as a channel. 

When Melbu Frahma was defeated, the channel was left open and the planet's life slowly flowed out into the Moon That Never Sets and dissipated. After Shana passed and 108 years went by, the Moon Child did not descend to Endiness, and never would again. The soul of the god was trapped once more within the Tree of Life and several new fruits grew on its boughs. 
Eight fruits. Each containing a fragment of the god's soul. Each ready to fall and bring hope and joy once more to Endiness. 

The mermaids say only the Dragoons can claim the fruits, but the spirit stones have been lost through the ages. It is said that Dart convinced the others to seal away their Dragoon Spirits so they could never be used for evil. He spent many of his later years searching for the Dark and Red-Eye spirits. They were never found. He told only his children how to find and retrieve them, but like all things, this too was lost to the tides of time.