In the oldest songs ever sung by the spirits that inhabit the most sacred places of all Xafra stories are told that, even long before the great explosion, the giant of Andra, the "Great Xafra" already existed before all and, in fact, it was the very "Zhor" who lit the lamp that gave life to all the things that constitute what we know today as "multiverse". For the xafrians, it is a fact that the God who gives being to all things is, in fact, a planet that goes back long before the creation of everything that’s seen.
The wilandros were already wandering in the first places of Xafra long before they had even been formed; those spirits that are still singing the records of Xafra were those who, brimming with the brilliance that Zhor gave them set out to create the first xafrians from the stardust that Andra issued. The Andrans were the most beautiful and graceful beings by Zhor, blessed with gifts that would turn them into the closest beings to the Great Xafra.
But the Andrans didn’t arrive if not millions of years later, in the age that today is known as the "Osmosises" (also known as the age of darkness) which was an era in which the glare of the lamp that gave life to all things was very weak and tenuous so that it couldn’t even illuminate the entire immense expanse of Xafra. The light was almost nonexistent in all that period that lasted more than a thousand xerves, the first two Andrans to emerge into the world created by Zhor were the pillars Hyuk and Lyfa, who would become the age of Lafius (also known as the age of the light) in the first and sixth avatar of Xafra respectively.
Zhor put challenges to all the Andrans, but only 12 of them became the Pillars of Xafra: Hyuk, Quelava, Varene, Liotho, Goann, Lyfa, Phey, Tiarianna, Lagantha, Ciaran, Kyet and Riuraj.
Hyuk is the fastest andran of creation; no one has seen him since he became the first Xafrian to travel the full extent of the gigantic Xafra in less than a day, that was the same day he was anointed as the first Avatar of Xafra. Lyfa, the most beautiful of all the Andrans, was born under the blessing of the Osmanian wilandros, becoming on the age of light in the first and only Princess Ominus to make use of her gifts to condemn the eternal darkness to the whole Osmosian Kingdom, thus recovering her lost glory at the end of the age of darkness; but Lyfa left its position like princess five xerves later to fulfill with the superior aims imposed by Xafra, by all its countless feats managed to be chosen by Zhor to serve as its sixth avatar.
Hyuk and Lyfa like all avatars, were destined to marry long before they were created by Zhor, but it was not until they met in the Brotherhood of Pillars of Xafra, that they awoke their primal feelings of love and decided to unite in marriage in the Great Zhorstice Sanctuary, the most sacred place of all Xafra; Hyuk and Lyfa had twins: Hykaal and Lys, who were incorporated into the Xafrian society a few days after their birth as all children conceived by other avatars of Xafra.
Lagantha and Liotho wed in the depths of the almost impenetrable jungle of Quethel, making it a sacred place and venerated by all the Xafrians even today. Liotho and Lagantha had four children: Lyuka, Harrall, Gialla and Lysanna… Lysanna which is said to be even more beautiful than Lyfa.
Somewhere in Xafra...
Lyfa was making a pilgrimage to the icy steppes of the Hykhaven Mountains; the cold winds hit her face causing the tip of her nose and cheeks to be painted in a reddish pink. She walks several more meters climbing through a frozen slope. Leaning on a branch of a tree with a curved trunk, it has revelation through contact with it. A twisted and aberrant figure in comparison with the slender body of the xafrian, when approaching enough Lyfa manages to discern to be that figure belongs: it was a Skai, considered demons that went against the principles of Xafra. This demon extends his hand, which holds an orange gem, then vanishes and the vision fades, giving shape to the frozen panorama. These somewhat inherent revelations of avatars, through with any living element of Xafra can obtain lots of information; sometimes they could be clear messages as they could also arrive in the form of encrypted and subliminal messages.
"(... What does this message mean, my Lord Zhor?)" Lyfa looks at the frozen summit she intended to reach, however, the path became even more difficult after each step she took; the slope became steeper.
After the strenuous hike to the summit, Lyfa is in front of the temple "...", a structure that represented the devotion of the inhabitants of these steppes towards Xafra. After crossing the door he finds two priests, wings and plumages dyed an orange like that of sunsets and wrinkled faces that conveyed a lot of seriousness, the second had a more outlined and elongated face with wings and feathers of emerald green.
"My best regards, my lady, my name is Gal and the gentleman next to me is Kryuss, he’s not usually very communicative, so I make his presentation in his place." The younger priest pronounced at the same time as an act of reverence. "We were hoping that one of the twelve avatars would make us fit to be present, but what a pleasant surprise that you were your sixth grace, and bless us with your beauty.
"I've had a revelation, and I'm afraid it has not been especially pleasant," Lyfa said as she studied the two priests with her violet eyes and ended up focusing on the older one. "I know we have another issue to deal with, but I would like your help to interpret the message of our Lord Zhor.
A few seconds of silence passed and the elder one began to separate his lips slowly.
"Sure, I'm here to serve her," the old priest muttered. "Come here.
They enter a ceremonial chamber, their walls were stained with white porcelain and they had old xafrian runes inscribed in golden ink all over them.
The young priest points to the end of one of his wings, a seat with ornaments and golden reliefs. This one takes a seat while the old priest brings in his hands a piece of transparent gem obscured.
"Let's start with the projection ritual." Lyfa said putting her hand on the gem while looking at the ceiling of the room. There was a mural painted with abstract patterns and without any apparent sense. After a few seconds the gem loses its opaque hue and begins to twinkle a small point of light in its center, Lyfa puts her pupils in white and enters a trance.
She returns to recover the vision of her surroundings in a kind of timeless reality where everything around her was made up of pure energy. She tears off one of her bright red wine feathers and lets it fall into emptiness; it disintegrates into tiny luminous particles. A thin film composed of the same bright particles that were omnipresent all over the place begins to spread out. Out of nowhere, the two priests materialize next to her.
Through the screen in front of her they begin to show the images that she saw in her revelation. She begins to feel a tingling in her forehead as she visualizes those images again. Again the same bizarre figure, Kryus raises an eyebrow.
"You don’t see that every day," Kryus muttered.
"... That's what I think it is," a stunned Lyfa mentioned before the revelation of seeing the images of the epiphany for second chance in detail.
"I'm afraid yes, my lady," says Kryus in a low, theatrical tone.
"For Zhor's sake, what is that thing?" Gael says with a look of horror on his long face.
"That's a Skai" says Lyfa and turns her head towards Kryus, then continues "What do you think about this epiphany that Xafra transmitted to me?"
"I think the Great Lord wants you to take the gem that the demon held in his name." Kryus says then he glimpses something that causes him to shudder. "But there could be something else Zhor tries to tell you ...
Lyfa turns her head towards the sequence of images and shrugs. "So you came to the same conclusion as me," Lyfa vociferates with a sober tone.
In the blink of an eye, the white and overflowing space of luminescence begins to turn gray, then white again and finally a dark blue. A scaly, spectral and translucent hand lashes out against Lyfa, this moves reflexively and retreats but a second scaly hand stretches from a blind spot manages to capture her, restricting with her seven fingers all her movements and then dragging her by the twist space from which it came.
Lyfa opened her eyes and her first impression after awakening was that of a hard-fought sky of a bleak blue. This one is incorporated quickly after the suspicion on the situation in which it was. Look in all directions with anxiety. There was no doubt for her, she was in Dein, the planet inhabited by the demons called Skai, this planet was in turn a similar entity to Xafra, however, more precisely it turned out to be like its antithesis, therefore the Skai for being monsters of this planet, they were destined enemies of the xafrian people.
Lyfa, after a second meditation on her situation, decides to explore the surroundings. Shee decides to assume that her stay on the filthy planet is, in some way, Zhor's will.
Walking through a desolate plain the only thing she could see was a greenish fluorescent liquid that bubbled from the intricate cracks in the floor. In short, she was no longer in Xafra, there was no similar landscape like this in her home. Continue walking a few more meters until she come across what looked like an altar. She had heard that the Skai also worshiped Dein-Zere as they did with Xafra-Zhor. After a blink, the reality that she perceives begins to distort, just as it happened when they attacked her in the astral network.
A Skai emerges from fissure in the twisted space "I have you... your soul will be a great offering to Mr. Zere" the scaly demon ends up making an appearance. It was an imposing reptilian creature with humanoid form with grayish scales and a pair of leather membrane wings protruding from its broad back. In his left hand he held an orange gem with an illegible character for Lyfa.
"My name is Fairen the scion. Tell me your name before I kill you.
Lyfa realizes that killing that pariah is the purpose that Zhor imposed on her by bringing her here, she responds with arrogance: "I am Lyfa, Princess Ominus and Xafra's sixth avatar. Now do me a favor and die," Lyfa extends the palm of her hand and deploys a purple orb from the surface of her hand, which then projects to the Skai and collapses before making contact with it. The Skai plunges into a deep lethargy.
They spend a long thirty seconds and Lyfa assumes that it has been an easy victory, approaches the demon with intent to snatch the gem from his hand. Fairen flaps his wings viciously standing up and stretching his torso up.
"Mundane Andran, who do you think you are dealing with?" Fairen says opening his eyes that were now imbued with a silvery sheen. "I am a member of Dein's select five judges, Fairen, the scion, the third Dein Judge!
Fairen closes his fist and concentrates that same silver energy that saturates his eyes in this one; half open his hand as if pretending to hold something, in that space between his fingers and palm materializes a spear of energy and throws it at a dizzying speed towards Lyfa.
Lyfa unfolds her wings and takes height at an outstanding speed and manages to dodge the spear narrowly. Fairen doesn’t lose resolution and adopts a posture with his two hands raised so that this time he generated two spears. He throws the spears, they’re of a greater proportion than the previous one. Lyfa crosses her arms against her chest and creates a barrier of energy of a color and intensity of brightness that looks like super hot violet plasma. The throw hits the wall of the barrier generating a deafening roar.
"I don’t care who you are, it is impossible for you to win this battle," Lyfa says as she squeezes her hands together, pointing to Fairen. "You serve the wrong sir, our creed is the one that will prevail, for Mr. Zhor is infinite and it’s in it that really lies the truth.
"Pure shit is what comes out of your pretty mouth. You already bored me; it's time to give the promised sacrifice to my lord.
Fairen generates two spears like the previous time, but this time he collides with each other giving shape to a spear and in addition he injects more power channeling more energy into it and throws it to Lyfa. The lance contains a mass of energy such that it lacerates the fabric of the space through which it travels, giving rise to a phenomenon of distortion of reality in the wake it leaves behind. But before moving the project, Lyfa is quick to conjure her most powerful curse, her two fists together generates a purple halo that expands to meet the spear in motion, this curse is able to drain the energy of anything or any alive being, when crossing the spear and putting it within its range of effect begins to take effect. The spear gradually deviates from its direction and loses speed, but still the energy involved in that attack is considerable.
A flash burst in the heavens. Lyfa was still flying over the skies, blood was dripping from her side, the spear had torn off her right arm, part of her right wing set and had blown part of her ribs. Land and spit a lot of blood. In front of her Fairen was totally inert and turned off.
"I told you, bast ..." but before finishing, Lyfa falls unconscious.
That feat would be recorded in the records xafrians as one of the most outstanding stories of a victory of Zhor over Zere, all thanks to the legendary Princess Ominus, which would become since back then on the avatar closest to Xafra and according to many: the most loved by Zhor.