Loss of Sight of the Essential

Since the end of the War of Chaos, Esperia had changed in many ways, making it almost unrecognizable from what it once was.

While some remain nostalgic for that time, when they were the most powerful users of magic on the planet, they were nevertheless not the only ones to have lost sight of the essential.

The use of magic had intensified with its emergence, whatever the element: water, wind, lightning, earth, and fire.

Magic had made life so much easier that, little by little, the relationship of the Espers — the creatures who had developed the use of magic — with nature and their planet had faded away.

Some had already understood that the use of magic had a cost: Aether, the life source of the planet, was consumed a little more with each use.

But, having lost sight of a world without magic, no one was capable of restraining its use, blaming the other elements and gradually destroying the trust that had been so difficult to build between the five elements.

No one had realized that the five elements were only part of a whole, and that the solution had been before their eyes from the very beginning: the essential lay in the cooperation of the five elements, together.

This cooperation, at the scale of an Esper and the elements, is called the StarDust…


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