Arc Warden Lore

As war and cataclysm threatened the nascent cosmos, the will of a third fragment made itself known. Naming itself Zet, this intellect sought to resolve the disharmony and return all to perfect unity. Appalled by its kin`s conflicting nature, Zet gathered the sum of its power. In a sudden flash, it overwhelmed its siblings, and fused the warring aspects into a stellar sphere before hurling them into the darkness to orbit a nondescript world. Harmony was restored, though only the barest fraction of Zet`s strength remained. Setting its gaze on the prison, Zet chose to use its weakened power to serve as watchful warden until time`s end. For uncounted aeons, this vigil stood.

Life flourished upon the world below, oblivious to the dangers imprisoned within the softly glowing moon, or of Zet`s struggles to contain them. As the captives` eternal clash reverberated within, the surface of the prison shuddered, over time beginning to crack. Ultimately, Zet`s depleted power proved insufficient to contain the breach, and at last the moon was shattered. The prison`s ancient inhabitants had escaped to sow their conflict anew.

Flung to the farthest reaches by the prison`s explosion, Zet was transformed by the dissonant energies of its former captives. No longer of single form and thought, its presence had become split among many--some lesser, some greater--each connected by a fleeting arc of consciousness. Struggling to suppress its own disunity, Zet sped toward the burgeoning conflict of its siblings, bending its fractured wills toward a singular conclusion: the aspects of the primordial mind must be made to reunite, or all must be destroyed lest the conflict spread further…