In ancient times it was known that all the myriad things
were created from the essence of five elements: Water, Wind, Earth, Fire, and Light. They
endowed the cosmos with substance, and gave their spirit to all that had life. But over
the ages the races grew proud, and thought to separate the five elements from spirit,
spirit from virtue... virtue from self. Now the knowledge of the prime elements is all but
lost, and spirit and virtue all but lost with it. Evil grows strong, and corrupts the
hearts even of men, one of the last races to have held to a vestige of the old wisdom.
To keep this ancient knowledge and seek out that which has been forgotten, to guard
spirit and virtue from those who would destroy it, this is the charge of the Circle of the
Five Elements.