Legacy
Copyright© 2022 by Uruks
Prologue
“Wherever there is light, there will always be darkness.”
Many thousands of years ago, long before the legends of the great Wave Crasher, Zin Alastar, or the tales of the famous Spell Singer, Sharice Kaves, the universe was a very dark place indeed. Chaos reigned supreme as dozens of alien factions sought to establish their dominance.
Amidst this chaos came the unremarkable human race that had traveled from a distant galaxy seeking a new home. Having used up most of the natural resources available on their homeworld, the humans left their galaxy to explore the great unknown in search of a world capable of supporting life. What the early humans could never have imagined was that not only would they find other inhabitable planets in distant star systems, but that they were not alone in the universe.
Aliens, the humans had called them at first, though there was something unmistakably familiar about these creatures. The nonhumans that mankind realized populated most of the universe were very reminiscent of Earth’s ancient legends and myths of old.
Elves from Earth’s fairytales. Werewolves from the horror stories. Even Dragons - which had been depicted in some fashion from almost every major culture in human history. Human scientists reasoned that the people only saw the aliens in a spectrum fashioned by their primitive Earth legends, but they soon learned that it went deeper than that. It seemed that extra-terrestrial life had visited Earth before, inspiring much of the mythos and grandeur of early civilizations. However, whereas the aliens had only come to visit out of curiosity, they could see that humankind had come to colonize, and they were much displeased. Salvation for the humans soon turned to doom as they found themselves beset on all sides by powerful alien rivals with not only devastating technology at their disposal, but even more dangerous supernatural powers that none of humanity’s scientists could explain.
To the ancient and uninhabited world of Tarrus did the humans travel. However, unbeknownst to them, this particular planet was considered sacred to many nonhuman races, and therefore was deemed too holy for mere mortals to dwell. Luckily, the aliens ceased their attack of the human convoy after they landed on the planet, the divinity of the world unknown to its homo sapien interlopers. But the threat the nonhumans presented still loomed, and the human race could feel malevolent eyes watching them from the stars, waiting for a chance to strike.