History of Lir's Jewels
Thousands of years before the Erythandran Empire, when the world was newly created, Lir and Toc's season of love gave birth to all living creatures, both ordinary and magical. The magical creatures soon left the physical world for the magical plane, drawn there by their true nature, but one among them delighted in returning and visiting the world of humankind.
In the first centuries of the Erythandran nation, before the kingdom grew to be an Empire, a powerful mage succeeded in trapping the creature in an ordinary stone. The act transformed the stone into a jewel, and bonded the creature's magic to it. It is said that the kings of Erythrandran used this jewel in war to conquer their neighbors. When the years of conquest were over, the kings kept this jewel in the royal treasuries. Legend said that if the jewel was lost, the empire would collapse.
In the last century of the empire, someone did steal the jewel. When the emperor recovered the jewel, he ordered his mages to divide it into three and to keep each in a separate part of the treasury. Just eighty years later, two princes of Károví, Leos and Andrej Dzavek, used their money to bribe certain lower officials in the treasury to learn the safeguards. Leos then used his magic to break through and secure all three jewels.
Once they secured the jewels and escaped, however, Andrej had second thoughts. He quarreled with his brother, and just as the legend predicted, the civil wars destroyed the empire. In a later life, Andrej, now Imre Benacka, remembered his past lives. He believes he and his brother were wrong to steal the jewels, and that their presence would be a constant temptation to war, either by Veraene or Károví, and so he uses his position as trusted advisor to the king to steal the jewels hide them throughout the magical plane. Instead of ensuring peace, however, the act sparks a second and bloodier war between Veraene and Károví, as Leos Dzavek hunts for his lost possessions.
For three hundred years, Lir's jewels remain lost. But Leos Dzavek has not given up the search, and as PASSION PLAY begins, certain interested parties discover that Leos Dzavek has recovered the first of the three…
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