The Rise of the Dark One
Here is another excerpt from Dytin Stones: Windrider providing more lore. Please, enjoy!
As the races of the Sprites began to grow to the far reaches of Teva, the planet’s resources began to strain under their weight. Squabbles broke out, fights sporadically surfaced. Soon Dytin’s perfect world began to fall apart. The feelings of anger, of hatred, of pain, all filtered through the races, to their creators, and finally to Dytin himself. One day the vast evil power gathering within Dytin became too much, and before the Sprite’s very eyes, Dytin split in two. As their master’s broken body lay on the ground, a new creation emerged, the darkest presence that had ever been seen. The being’s breath poisoned the air, it’s touch incinerated all he held, his every step suffocated the ground and left death and desecration in its wake. He announced to the Sprites his name to be Cain, and he would see this world they had created utterly destroyed without mercy or reason, then he disappeared as quickly as he came.
The world of Teva was thrown into war. The races banded together to battle the monstrosities put forth upon them by the evil powers of Cain. Such unity surprised even Dytin himself, but soon Cain’s forces were broken and defeated, the Dark One beaten at his brother’s feet. Dytin and the Sprites sentenced Cain to an eternity locked away so that his corruption and evil would not plague the beings of Teva ever again, creating a crystal shard to serve as his prison. Each element put forth their essence to help craft the magical cage, for only with all of their powers combined could they hold back Cain’s dark malice. So ended the First Age.
At the time, the world was consumed with celebration; Cain’s capture within the now christened “Tevan Crystal” was herald as the end of all conflict. Dytin rewarded his people’s victory with a special gift. He granted the races the same immortality that he and the Sprites shared, so they could enjoy forever the new freedom they had fought for. But the gift was wasted.