Life Depends on Nature

The revelation of the Shape of Balance, Atma, before the eyes of all at the end of the War of Chaos was undoubtedly a crucial turning point that allowed the Seven Shapes to unite the Espers of the five elements under the banner of rebuilding a civilization living in harmony with nature.

This balance, now embodied by Atma, had gradually been lost, and the centuries leading up to the terrible events of that war, which devastated the planet’s entire ecosystem, had amplified this phenomenon to an extreme degree.

Many of those living in ever larger and more crowded megacities no longer saw where their daily food or the energy that powered their homes actually came from.

Everything had become available in the blink of an eye, yet no one was any longer aware of the physical reality hidden behind this “modernity” that made all this material comfort possible.

The use of magic had become second nature to everyone, yet few understood the deeper effects it had on their environment.

Until then, the Espers had never truly been taught to work together, to see one another as allies regardless of their element, or to care for nature, which they had always taken for granted.

While the planet itself was not in danger, the Espers had transformed it so profoundly that even nature, resilient as it was, could no longer absorb everything.

And the paradox of this story is that it was those very same Espers who would pay the price.

An injustice that would not affect those directly responsible, but instead the generations yet to come…