In the beginning of all time, the world was vast and gray and barren. Only the massive, stone-like arch-trees grew here, ascending high into the fog that shrouded the world. The rulers of this time were the dragons everlasting, whose stone scales granted them immortality. The dragons also held the primordial crystal, a powerful artifact, but we'll visit that another time. Little is known about this period, only the most ancient of all things were around, and so it was called The Age of the Ancients.
But then there was Fire.

It is a mystery from where Fire came. We only know that it suddenly came to be deep in the hollows of the world, raging brightly and hotly, bringing disparity into the cold and dark world. It is in this First flame, that the four souls of Lords are found. These souls are massively powerful. granting those that hold them god-like power, and thereby dominion in this new world.

One soul was found by Nito, the First of the Dead. Another was found by the Witch of Izalith a powerful sorceress. The third was Gwyn, Lord of Sunlight. And the last came to the being known only as the Furtive Pygmy, his soul weak and flickering unique to the rest.

each was powerful and determined to carve their place in this new time. And carve they did.