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I just searched for some words and this name came to be, the name of the biggest kingdom/city from my story :3

So, what made me want to write a story and make a comic out of it, was a symbol that I made while bored at school one day and decided to do more and well, here we are.

There are so far 7(8 counting the non-elementals) elements that I want to be part of that story, “water,fire,earth,wind,light and dark” each has a backstory as to why they appeared on the world. And also each element gets like um an upgrade? Not precisely an upgrade, is more like, they understand more their element and their ability grows and so they can use make more with it.

Since when I started to write the backstory of each symbol, it was actual gods, of each element, but I changed that as to special people who were the first beings that could control elements, and to know which element each had, I use the symbols to represent that, but the symbols are also part of their body, like a tattoo,  but people before them didn’t have tattoo’s, so the tattoo that represented “normal” people started appearing cause there were beings that came, well, normal.

Anyway, here are some backstory of the elements that I’ll use.

Water: Mostly, people with this element are calm and serene,  pacifist between them and others including “normal's”. Some of their origins say they used to live near rivers,lakes, and ocean shores. Just in rare and extreme cases they would enter in conflicts. Though they will help without a doubt just to keep peace.

Fire: They’re mostly hard to talk with, but once trust is made, is easier to talk with them, though always respectful towards others. They have/had a lot of conflicts with the “normal’s”, mostly cause back in the beginning of their culture they used to sacrifice “normal’s” for being like that. Though after the wars and their “god” disappeared/died their relation has gotten better.

Earth: This is people that often had floods, so they were to live on the mountains and establish settlements. The “earth god” found this and got really impressed by what they accomplished by themselves so he asked to live here and thought them how they could control it and just use it to protect their village. They are really over protective people, women raised to be tender; men to be more aggressive but both specialized in heavy duty.

Wind: They are even more aggressive than earth people, though they were pacifist but betrayal, destruction, and killing of their people, they rarely let any other race to visit their palace unless they have contacts inside. Fire people helped them on the reconstruction and invented a floating city. This city those have a special reserved place on the ground but rarely used, only certain festivals or in case special repairs needed. They control the post service of the continent.

Light: Some scouters found a cave filled with scribbles on the walls, and the a person there, almost at the verge of dying, so for saving him/her, he/she taught them how to use magic, but this magic was as to help others and not completely benefit you. It’s best attribute is defense This magic works better with the cooperation of a darkness user.

Darkness: The “goddess” of darkness is sister’s with “light”’s “god” and when she went back to look for her sister in the cave, and didn’t fine her, went on the search for her, months passed but she couldn’t find her, then she saw on a road someone getting mugged, saved him, and turns out was the king of a kingdom near by, but his soldiers died trying to protect him. She got him back to his kingdom and became the right hand of the king and got asked to teach darkness magic but to only soldiers of high caliber or people that were competent enough. It’s best attribute is the offensive. If used with the helped of light user, works better.

Spiritual/Soul: This is a “god” by mistake. Created from darkness and light “goddesses” but since both went missing, he thought he was “free” to do what he wanted(he wasn’t bind to anyone anyway) and found a small village to live in. With his help, the village grew to be know as “ghost town” and they control the biggest graveyard(cause of the wars), also because the can summon spirits, that either passed away or from another dimension. This latter became to be know as “familiars” but only can be used by light  and darkness users. This familiars can only be summon by gathering special ingredients and a jewel fabricated by the light/darkness magic, or the spirit/soul of a living, but this is not used, as it has a small chance of ever working, this is know cause in the last war, “normal’s” tried to use this method but always resulting and failures and a lot of dead people.

One of the things that mainly drive my story is a war(wars?) that happened before from where I want to tell the story and the upcoming of one. So what I want to tell is how the protagonist go through a series of adventures that leads up to them either strategist a war or they just happen to be part of a side.

The first huge war ever to happen was when the “gods” appear, since the people where kinda scared and didn’t know how to interact with people so they weren’t accepted by the some people, other “gods” were accepted cause the people so they could help, and others helped in disputes of villages, so once some “gods” earned their trust, let’s say 30 years happened, so they became leaders of the people(just some) and decided to expand and conquer, so “gods” battled other “gods” and cause mayor destruction to their surroundings, and that alerted other villages from far places where other “gods” recede, so they went onto either trying to make the other “gods” their allies, or kill them. That’s what made the kingdoms  and the civilizations of we know now.

But then, after years later, technology rise and became better, there was peace but then there was a a civil war between the “light” and “dark” ability users, and that war killed so many people and almost destroyed completely that kingdom, since no other kingdoms where allowed to help(nor they could if they wanted), so no to many “light” and “dark” users are alive and the “gods” died that war.

From that point, like a time bomb, another war was brewing, one that the non-ability users would start, using technology and knowledge from the once deceased “light”&”dark” “gods”. The war was made to either submit the rest of the “gods” or kill them, and make their knowledge and technology theirs, cause if not everyone can be a ability user, nobody can. By the end of the war, a pact/deal was made, the non-users would have the biggest kingdom and they would have a mix civilization, every race, every kind of user, but users could also be the leader of that kingdom and the rest of the kingdoms would be as they wish and not necessarily affiliated/associated with that kingdom but they are free to make deals and traits and other stuff. But kingdoms were almost completely destroyed, if it were not by the “gods” making an alliance, and since “normal” people is also a living things, the “gods” couldn’t just make them disappear, and just the one that was pulling the strings of the war was arrested but by what he/she did and cause he/she wouldn’t stop, so he/she was killed and the subjects surrender cause of it, and actually one “god” made the pact/deal but some had resents, so that’s why  some decided to stay away and with their own business.

In my story I use the concept of god as in someone that is seen as a divine being but they themselves don’t see as one nor they are gods.

I refer to “gods” in my story as the people/beings that were responsible to teaching/transmitting the knowledge/power to the rest of the people though no matter how much the other people would train they wouldn’t be as good as the “gods” even when following the code simply cause the “gods” have a direct contact/link with the energy of the elements, something that no one else can have and the “gods” don’t know how they got to be that way.

The “gods” since they can’t die by mortal means(like aging) they can live almost forever but they can still die.So that helped them to pass their teaching to future generations and after people noticed that, some got built temples, others by knowing this asked also for a place and got shrines/temples too, though smaller. Some after small wars or disputes got built one as a reward for helping out.

Sadly, most of them(if not all) died after a few huge wars that happened almost one after the other or lost themselves after it as they didn’t where to be seen, so people got pissed and tried to destroy their sacred places but the “gods” had placed special seals on them which protected their places in case they would return, some didn’t run the same luck and got destroy completely.

Some of the “gods” also developed new technology but didn’t distributed to the people for fear they might give them bad use,( which ended up happening, therefore wars) so they just kept them to themselves. Just their sacred places used that technology but the ones that were no harm for people.

One of the things I want to use as a plot moving thing in my story is the search for a “god” that is spoken to be alive. Either the protagonists are task to do so or they find out themselves by other means.

One day, bored at the classroom, I doddle something on my hand, it was the first symbol I ever created, so fucking simple that I even decided to create more and make background to each of one of those and wanted to create a complete story about it.

The ability to control the elements is something “normal” for people around my world, though of course, there’s people that doesn’t have that ability(but it can be awaken in them, just really specific ways and incredibly rare) and they control one of the biggest countries, but they used to have the control of the world but after wars happened, some kingdoms separated and now each have their own reign(there are still a few countries that are being reign by “normal” people but different beliefs and not necessarily connected to the main one), though I’m not sure what kind of government I want for the countries, right now I like monarchy but I might mix it up that some countries use another kind but mostly monarchy, Idk.

There are symbols that let you know what ability they have(or lack of it) which are embed on people’s skin since the day they are born but they can be almost be on any part of the body, depends on how the “god” had it on their body.

This “gods”, that nobody knows where they come from, are the ones that gave the ability to control their surroundings, feel their energy and so use them as their will. Will, desire, confidence and knowledge are mostly require to completely master the elements. “Gods” not necessarily have all those four but still they would be much more powerful than any of the people, simply cause of the reason that they have the understanding of the element and spiritual link(plus divine shit) though, during the wars some died or disappeared  cause of unknown reasons, and they are not immortal but they can’t die from aging.

Using your abilities recklessly can kill you as in using it uses your physical and mental strength, so have you have good training no mater the ability you have. There’s in no way that you can lose your abilities, just that cause of extreme exhaustion you might die. Even “gods”.

Here I wanna put my ideas as to how I want to build the world I want to set my story/comic I want to make.

Apparently there are ruins around, like 500-1000 years old that people used to go there to pray to the gods(there were real “gods”) like shrines or temples that people build for them, some where big some where small, but because of certain wars the “gods” died or got lost afterwards(not sure if both or just one) and the people stopped going to those places but the knowledge and technology made from there help to build better civilizations that it seems was being held off from people and they stole it when the wars happened.

The temples/shrines ground got sealed with the power of the “gods” in case something happened to them or the place so nobody is able to go inside those places anymore but the government keeps them as cultural heritage and so nobody can build around them. So they are far from civilization and they have been aging so depends as to where they are located, nature is claiming them back to the ground.

3 temples/shrines are on mountains, 2 underwater, 1 near a volcano, 1 in a huge forest and 1 still don’t know, so that’s pending, making a total 8 temples/shrines.

The difference between temple and shrine I want to make is the temple are bigger and became like small cities where people lived and the shrines are smaller than the temple so they just have few buildings, so only the “god” and few of the people he/she trusted could lived there and train so people outside of there, and that lived near the shrine, went to pray and ask for help from “god”.