HISTORY
ORIGIN OF THE SPIRITUAL GEMS
Long ago, Hornthropods were not much evolved and didn't have any bond with spiritual powers, they were only a tribe of horned arthropods with nothing to do with magic. But Matiz loved their nature, and blessed them as their own children. His blessing made a whole generation of Hornthropods started to be borns with a Spiritual Gem inside their eggs, in rare cases, two Gems that were called Binary Gem, and in one single case, three Gems were born from a single egg, called Trinary Gem.
TRINARY GEM
The only cub born with a Trinary Gem was a Hornthropod called Elafrý Kósmima. No one knew what those Gems were yet, nor even had any idea of its powers, but Elafrý was treated as a very spiritual being, a messenger from Matiz itself or some kind of reincarnation of an ancient spirit. Their Three Gems were a clear representation of the Three Great Guardian Spirits for them.
First Elafrý were raised by their mother, but after their mother's death they and their younger sibling Onigiri were raised by Caregivers and Instructors, they teached Elafrý all they needed to know about the history of the Spirits, because all of them knew that Elafrý had to fulfill a sacred mission when time comes.
FIRST ONES TO EXPLORE OUTSIDE
When Elafrý turned a teenager, they were in charge of going outside the Gemmer's Canyon in order to find Matiz Sacred Tree, and eventually Matiz himself. A far away silhouette of his tree could be seen from the top of the Gemmer's Canyon and it would lead her to the destination.
Elafrý and other two friends of them went together to this mission, a strong Horned White Spider named Omoi'kai to help fighting, and a very skilled Horned Firefly named Eydeen Rayet to help them navigate, even at night.
IHURKRAN
Elafrý was the only one allowed by the elder Hornthropods to go near the Matiz's territory, due to their Trinary Gem. When they were close to the Great Tree Entrance they needed to tear the group apart. It was not a goodbye, it wasn't even a sad moment, since both Omoi'kai and Eydeen were really excited to explore and live in a new place while Elafrý would stay inside Ihurkran learning from the Great Spirit himself.
RETURN WITH SACRED KNOWLEDGE
Years have passed when the three of them returned to the Gemmer's Canyon. Elafrý has written most of Matiz's teaching to bring the knowledge to all the other Horneds waiting for them at home. Elafrý was a grown young adult at that point of their life, they brought all the knowledge about the spiritual power of the Spiritual Gems and how to deal with its powers, teaching new and old Hornthropods about themselves and their abilities.
ALPHA TITLE
Because of that mentor aura grown towards Elafrý's teachings and their Trinary Gem nature, they were considered the Alpha of the Hornthropods, the one in charge of keeping everything registered and organized and also teaching new Hornthropods how to discover themselves and their spiritual powers.
The effort from Omoi'kai and Eydeen weren't forgotten as they both would be considered noble explorers and the first Cardinal Hornthropods together with Elafrý. The Cardinal group would grow up later on as new mentors would be approved and announced.
Now that Hornthropods were stronger at its own and their society was evolving, they would soon be able to explore all Deep Lock Domain.
OPPOSITION
After the first generation of teached Hornthropods the time to let them go away from the Canyon was very near, but not all Cardinals were glad about it. Just as Elafrý and Eydeen, Omoi'kai has changed during her time living outside the Canyon, but she changed in a much different way then the other two, she has grown a cold personality and wouldn't trust anyone so easily, even her fellow Hornthropods of the Canyon.
Her experiences living outside the Canyon sure weren't something worth living, yet she couldn't talk about it with anyone.
She stated to Elafrý that letting all Hornthropods go outside the Canyon would lead them to endless suffering and loss, and that the right thing to do would be closing the gates to never open it again.
Elafrý could see the meaning behind Omoi's eyes, deeply inside she could understand her, yet Elafrý knew that they couldn't just forbid everyone to go outside. Elafrý knew Eydeen was extremely excited to go outside once more, since she had met someone special. Denying it to her would break her dreams apart, and so it would for a lot of new Hornthropods who wish to explore other worlds.
FINAL AGREEMENT
The Cardinals were into one of the most serious meetings they would ever participate in, on that day it doesn't seem like Eydeen and Omoi'kai would ever agree on anything that was said to each other.
After a long discussion Elafrý has decided that going outside the Canyon would be forbidden, yet the gates wouldn't be closed, authorized outsiders could visit the Canyon and, if they were able to get a Hornthropod's trust, a bold would be created between the two and the outsider would be considered a Tutor. In that way Hornthropods with a tutor to help them in the unknown lands could go outside the Canyon.
To make sure this law would be respected, Elafrý put a curse on every Hornthropod's Gem, if they go outside the Canyon without their blessing their Gem will slowly fade away, their powers would vanish and their youth would be drained away, the only way to heal a Gem from this curse is returning to the Gemmer's Canyon and getting the Blessing from Elafrý themselves.
And this is how things have been for a long while, Elafrý worked as the Alpha, taking care of every detail and event other Cardinals would suggest to them. Omoi'kai became Eydeen's Tutor to make sure that she wouldn't be hurt as Omoi'kai once was.
Hundreds of tutors were approved and led their Horned aprendices to their own adventures, and young Hornthropods who live in the Canyon can dream about one day becoming a great adventurer or explorer in future times.
THE NEW ALPHA
But Elafrý always have lived for their society and for others, when the time came, Elafrý decided they would do something for themselves, they teached everything they know about Spiritual powers to their best friend Faeen, even teaching them how to use the Blessing to Leave the Canyon, something Elafrý wouldn’t trust anyone else. The Gemmer’s Canyon celebrated an event to greet their new Hornthropod Alfa.
Some say Elafrý lives with the Spirit Matiz to this day since sometimes when they visit the Canyon they provide a special item called Metallic Matiz Berries to Faeen, capable of many strange blessings.
Faeen became a great alfa as Elafrý has predicted, they kept Elafrý’s wishes while making the Canyon and specially the Citadel a safe and fun place for all Hornthropod and tutors around them.
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Credits: Ideas by LightGem and Gosetsuki. Written by LightGem. Sketches by LightGem and Gosetsuki, final touches by LightGem. Special thanks to Proc-Prime for revising it and to our Discord members for sending some questions to inspire us!