Category: Balance

Rebuilding Esperia was no easy task. The civilization of the Espers had gradually turned away from what truly mattered, and the simple values, though essential to the proper functioning of a society that was difficult to manage, were fading away. The Seven Shapes had understood this problem well and were doing everything they could to…

Rebuilding Esperia on a sound foundation necessarily meant changing the system, placing emphasis on the values suited to a world with limited resources, where the remaining ecosystem that allowed the Espers to feed themselves and, quite simply, to live had to be protected. The period leading up to the Chaos War had been marked, among…

It was a question that often came up in the debates at the Great Library of Esperia, which, since the end of the Chaos War, had served Espers from all over the world as a place to exchange ideas, discuss, and try to find compromises on difficult issues. The Chaos War had indeed brought to…

The Espers were at the top of the food chain. And since the use of magic, they had also acquired the means to raze mountains, devastate forests, and drain lakes. Their means of food production had developed, but history had shown that even though they were at the top of the pyramid, famines and epidemics…

The civilization of the Espers had gradually moved away from what was nevertheless necessary to meet their natural physiological needs. Being able to feed themselves had become an ordinary act, with no apparent connection to nature, its resources, or the ecosystem of which they were nevertheless a part. Why was it important, in the eyes…

The values of Esper civilization, decided following the end of the Chaos War, had been chosen not without difficulty, after sometimes long and tedious, yet essential, discussions about points and subjects that had never truly been addressed before. The revelation of the StarDust, as well as the existence of Atma, the Shape of Balance, had…

The time gained through the use of magic, new technologies, and agriculture had also helped shed some light on another mystery of Esper civilization: harmony between the two sexes. Although, for the survival of their species, the two had to build families and reproduce, communication and harmony between the two sexes were far from being…

Since her birth, Atma, the Shape of Balance, had found in Shala, the Shape of Time, an almost motherly figure. The two were very close and often appeared together, which was a boon for the Espers. For both were representations of abstract concepts that were sometimes difficult to remember or understand, so seeing them together…

The challenge the Seven Shapes had set themselves was far from simple. Trying to rebuild a civilization after a war that had decimated the population and a large part of the ecosystem seemed an almost insurmountable task. But things had changed, and therein lay the hope for a society finally acting in a modern way.…

The excessive development of the Espers’ civilization through the use of magic had also made it possible to understand its consequences for the entire planet. Just as the Espers learn from their mistakes, perhaps irony had it that they would understand, decades later, the true gravity of their past actions. Magic had given them the…