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It all started with the finding of a blue moonstone. During a storm, the chaotic creature known as Lytte found herself outside walking along the long beaches outside of her lodge home. She was alone enjoying the beauty of the lightning, howling wind, and spray of waves and rain entwining in a chaotic celebration. Her slender feet slid into the damp sand as she walked as if in a dream, pulled by something unknown. Pushing a lock of went amber hair from her face, she looked down as her toes sifted into the sand finding something strange and too large to be sand. Perhaps it was a shell.
Curious she stopped her walking to investigate the strange find. Bending over to dig into the sand, what she found was a curious little stone. In the dark it was hard to descern just what type of stone it was, except that it was not the kind of stone one found in the sand. Slipping it into her pocket to keep with her she continued her walk without anything out of the ordinary happening.

It wasn't until the next day when she investigated the stone that she discovered something amazing. Sure enough she found it was not a beach stone. It was in fact a moonstone, more precise it was a blue moonstone. That wasn't the strangest thing about it. The strange thing was the vibe she felt radiating from the small stone. There was a feeling of femeninity and gentleness that came from it. Almost as if it were sentient. Curious to find out more, Lytte carried the blue moonstone carefully with her. Finding everyday to be a new find.

Not only was the stone sentient, it was eager to see different things. Lytte took note of everything, curious to find everything the stone reacted to. She also began to wonder where the stone came from. This was unlike anything she had ever seen before, and she had been around for a long time. However, she didn't begin her search for information on the stone until two more were found. A star sapphire and a red agate. They were different stones yet they had the same sentient like presence that the blue moonstone had.

Going to the only place she knew to look for information on things of magic, Lytte delved into her former lover's library. Manda_Cloudwalk was known for her oddities and vast knowledge on everything magic. The search would be difficult, but she had to know what these strange stones were and why they were so different.

Many nights passed, but it was one starless night that something very peculiar happened....

'....I was going through yet another large volume in the disorganized mess Manda kept. It was hard not to get disheartened at finding nothing that made mention of the stones. Sometime during the night, I found myself asleep. Maybe it was the full moon that hung in the clear and starless sky, but something happened that I had not anticipated! When I awoke the next morning to the sound of a page turnings, I was shocked by a small child that was busy reading Manda's text, or trying to.

"I don't understand some of these words.....but I think I understand a little of what it says." the small girl who couldn't have been more than three inches stated lightly. Her luminescent eyes peered at me innocently, waiting for a response of some sort. When all I did was stare at her, she continued. "You were looking for me, weren't you? It's not in this book, but it is in the library. You'll call all of us Reliquiants." she said the last word carefully, trying to pronounce it correctly.

It confused me even more. What was she talking about?....'

This began a new journey, finding the book the little girl who came to be called Bliss had mentioned. The book was indeed found and it mentioned stone 'relics' that had been found. Of course none of them mentioned the origins of the stones or their purpose, or even the fact they changed shapes. The journey was put on hold when the other stones became children and more stones and guardians began rising up in different places.

Needing a place to study these beings, Lytte set up the Relic Center and later the Manor, for guardian and Reliquiants to gather. All in hopes that the missing peices of knowledge would fall into place with all of them close together.

All seemed normal as each stone arrived, evolved to children, then teens, until something strange happened. The finding of a clue in a journal kept by surprisingly Naree, the strange poet of Phantasy Lodgings. It was then that Lytte left, leaving her two reliquiants in the care of that same poet to go in search of knowledge. For months she stayed away in places no one but herself knew.

The day she did return the shop was filled with sandy crates that were spell-locked. Though the origins of the Reliquiants remained unknown, there was a confidance in her gray eyes. She found something new for the strange stone creatures.....including things made for reliquiants and a strange book in a language she couldn't read....