After completing 74 chapters, I've decided to add this prologue. Many readers have questions about the fundamental nature of this world, its characters, and the seemingly contradictory behaviors you'll encounter. This prologue serves as both invitation and warning—you're entering a realm where traditional rules bend and break.
In this world, each kingdom is shaped by two elements—forces not just of nature, but of soul. These pairings create the foundation of power, culture, and magic that define our realms:
Water and Air: The fluid kingdoms where change is constant, adaptability is strength, and boundaries blur between what flows and what breathes. Illusion and Earth: Where reality itself is questioned, where solid ground can deceive, and what seems permanent may be the greatest deception. Fire and Lightning: The kingdoms of passion and impulse, where destruction and creation exist in violent harmony, and power manifests in brilliant, dangerous bursts. Shadow and Light: The eternal dance of revelation and concealment, where truth is found in darkness as often as in illumination. Nature and Sound: Where growth follows rhythm, where forests sing, and harmony with the world creates its own powerful magic. Decay and Space: The inevitable cycle of endings becoming beginnings, where emptiness holds potential, and what dies transforms. Blood and Emotion: The most mysterious pairing, where life force and feeling intertwine, where passion becomes literal power.
While most beings in this world align with a single elemental pairing, there exist unique elves who can wield more than one element—a rare phenomenon that will be explained as the story unfolds. These exceptional individuals stand apart, their unusual abilities both gift and burden in a world defined by elemental boundaries.
Each pairing might seem strange at first. That's fine. Not everything is meant to make sense right away. But everything has a reason. Some reasons are buried deep—under centuries of silence, war, and myth—but they're there, waiting to be found.
You'll see things shift. Scenes that feel like a glitch. Characters who speak too soon or disappear too fast. It's not chaos. It's design. Trust that even the odd ones—the ones who seem like background noise—have their place in the story. They matter.
So read with patience. Question what you see. Stay curious. The world of dual elements isn't meant to be understood immediately—it unfolds like the kingdoms themselves, revealing its nature slowly, sometimes painfully, but always with purpose.
This is a journey through realms where contradictions don't cancel each other out—they create something new.
Thanks for reading.