A blind monk who could hear the "song" of the wind. He was the Navigator , capable of sensing the safe paths through the lethal mists below.
A scholar who discovered that the mist wasn't poison, but dormant magic. She was the Alchemist , capable of turning the fog into breathable air.
The legends say they met at the , where the last Anchor was snapping. As the Great Island began to fall, they didn't flee. Mara jump-started the ancient engines, Kaelen steered them through the storm, and Thorne held back the shadows.
They didn't just survive; they became the . To this day, it is said that if the world ever begins to drift apart again, the Five will be reborn to tether the stars back to the earth.
At the center of the mist, Elara threw her potions into the clouds, clearing a path to the solid earth below—a place no human had stepped in a thousand years. The Nameless Child planted the seed in the first patch of soil they found.
In the era of the , the world was a collection of floating islands drifting over an endless, toxic mist. For centuries, the Great Anchors—massive chains holding the islands in place—had been rusting away.