Erien
He followed the others back to Mynaeia's room and closed the door behind him.
"So... we wanted to speak about why we're here? More specifically, why we all seemed to wake up around the s-same timeframe?"
Erien nodded. "Right, do any of you have any idea whatsoever why we've woken?" Everybody shook their heads.
"Okay... have any of you noticed that your powers are much less... well, powerful, than they used to be?" Everybody nodded and the wizard paused for a moment to think how to proceed with what he was going to say.
Then he began. "I've been awake for a little more than six years now. I've had time to think about this and I've had time to investigate this. I'm not sure how long you all have been awake, I'm guessing Zwn here has been awake for quite some time now as well, maybe even longer than I have, but that's besides the point, I guess. The point is, in those six years I've come to some pretty heavy conclusions.
"For those six years, I mostly travelled around Arun and learned about the world, what happened after I fell asleep. It's mostly what you'd expect, but there have been some incidents that shouldn't have happened, especially in the recent past. Stronger earthquakes, spontaneous appearances of clusters of raw magical energy, deadly firestorms, things like that. Not too often, but often enough to raise suspicion.
"Now, usually those things shouldn't happen, at least not on this scale. It's not fully out of control yet, but it's getting there. Usually we, the Guardians, keep those incidents from happening by controlling the elements, even the deep sleep that we often fall into. Somehow, it seems that we've lost control of the elements in this world. A few years ago, I came across a particularly powerful mass of raw magic energy and I realized that that mass had sentience. It was the manifestation of the element of magic that had managed to escape my bounds.
"So, naturally, I bound it to the nearest artefact I could find that could handle the energy. Unfortunately, I haven't so far been able to rein it back into myself, but I have been able to control it by binding it to the artefact. It's restless though, wants to get out.
"I believe that something similar may have happened to your own elements as well. I'm not one hundred percent sure, but I think it's likely. Why it has happened, I don't know. From what I know and remember of the previous worlds, we've fallen into Slumber many times and this has never happened before. Then again, we've never lost most of our memories upon appearing on a new world, either, so perhaps there's something going on with this particular world that makes things happen that shouldn't happen. All I know is that if we don't find a way to tame the loose elements again, this world will probably experience more and more powerful disasters that are caused by the elements gaining more and more power and in the end, it could all culminate in a worldwide cataclysmic event that would, effectively, end this world.
"This is all hypothetical, of course, but it does seem to be likely, so it's worth considering as a threat in my opinion. So I think that we all should concentrate our efforts into finding and re-establishing control over our escaped elements."
((dun dun duuuun))
((let me know if you're ok with this, if we were to accept this, it would pretty much set the objectives of the rp and i don't want to make that decision completely on my own))
