Greetings,
dear reader. I am the Digimon known as Wisemon, and I am honored that you chose
this story among the many you must have seen before you. I am a seer, you see,
or a mystic if you’d prefer; I can see and hear every thought or action of any
that I choose. I can see into their hearts and their minds. I can see the past.
I can see the future, even though it is constantly changing. I can see even the
futures that could have been, and the pasts that never were. Well, that’s
enough about me. And now, onto the story.
Also,
you may notice I frequent the use of the words ‘people’ and ‘person.’ In this
world, the terms are collective, referring to both Humans and Digimon.
This
story is a past that has, indeed, happened. It is a harrowing tale of the long battle
between good and evil that took place over a wide span of years. The battle took
place in a separate world than the one you may be familiar with. Allow me to
explain briefly; I am aware of the presence of the many different worlds and
dimensions out there, including the one you might be in right now, wherever it
is that this book might have ended up. In this world, there is no Human World,
and there is no Digital World. There is but one world, a utopia of sorts where
Humans and Digimon coexist peacefully. This world, and indeed, the only
continent where the events of this part of the story take place, was named
after the kind and loving goddess who created life…This world is called Arcadia.
Arcadia is a land blessed with peace and happiness, where Humans and Digimon
live side by side, work together, eat together, and play together…At least…that
is the story everyone enjoys hearing, and it is the version of the story that
everyone wishes to be true…
Though
I am loath to admit it, Arcadia is a world and continent fraught with chaos; a
chaos that is feared, dreaded, and constantly growing. It — or rather, she —
was a chaos that had existed for untold hundreds of years. Her very existence
threatened the lives of many innocents and ended even more for nothing more
than a paltry eternal life.
Fret
not, for all hope was not yet lost; there exists a mercenary guild that sought
to protect the lives that remained in the wake of that chaos. Though originally
formed to protect innocent lives from bandits, that guild, as fate would have
it, found itself in the middle of the conflict.
Arcadia
itself lies amidst a vast ocean, and is divided up into four different
provinces: the frigid Nymphaea Tundra to the north, the barren Cyprus Desert to
the south, the dense Lotisea Forest to the west, and the urbanized Celosia
Province — which itself is further divided into five territories — to the east.
The bulk of the story occurs within the province of Celosia, in the territory
known as Valencia, the easternmost province of Celosia, and the very closest to
Lotisea.
The
events that take place throughout this story are not for the faint of heart. If
you have the courage and power required to fight against the darkness, then by
all means, delve deep into its core and continue onwards, and gain the wisdom
offered in the dark secrets of this lore. If not, I strongly advise you close
this book and walk away, and forget all about it for the remainder of your
life.
I
apologize, dear reader, for my digression. This story begins in the year 598,
some 200 years prior to the bulk of the story, when the chaos is awakened and
freed from the only place capable of imprisoning her darkness…Arcadia’s hell.
The Dark Area, where she rests, and dreams, of events gone by.
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