(General P.O.V)

The three Elemental Disciplines and the Mysteries of Earth, How and Why:-

Fire, also known as the first of the 3, is the easiest to wield and direct. The fastest to get out of the caster's control as well. This element while not particularly loved by Druids, is wide spread amongst the Red Lotus (more information on them can be accessed in the history of magic)

Air, is peaceful and beloved just as it is dreadful in the wrong hands. All druid practices base air as the foundation of their teachings. It is as potent as one wills it to be.

Water, is the third in this triumvirate of elements. Water can be flexible and hard. It's Sub-skills are the most versatile. Water has a very close relationship with air and fire, forming storms and steam as a result of what many call, 'web fusion'. The Web is a theorized connection in between each element. Though numerous studies have been done, no one knows for certain if it exists.

However, all magical practitioners who connect with the Avatar dedicate their lives to reaching this theorized layer of magical control. It is believed that if one were to gain control of the web, then they would automatically become the god of True Magic. Reality would be theirs to do with as they wish.

Earth can be summed up in one word, difficult. It is stubborn, sharing similarities with how we see it expressed; the ground, tough heavy boulders, mountains and deserts. It defies change, content to maintain its size and shape, moving only when pushed by a higher force. Wind, water and fire can be directed by gaining connection with their mysteries.

Earth is absolutely not the same.

Thousands of years and the only Sub-skills unlocked are gravity and crystal manipulation. And even these two Sub-skills are only wielded with prodigious talent by members of the Red Lotus. Rumors say they have even unlocked another Subskill. One that brings with it major destruction, Lava control.

How? There is a process of magical progress, where a second generation mystical practitioner finds it much easier to understand the mysteries of each of the elements with a lower difficulty than the older generation. Over the years, understanding becomes easier to grasp, leading to many elemental Sub-skills being discovered and subsequently unlocked.

This entire phenomenal is known as 'Avatarian Sublimation'. Power is given to magi in exchange for creative application of each element. Through that, subskills such as plant control, light manipulation, ember manipulation, Cloud manipulation, blood manipulation, elemental aura, elemental zone, Elemental Enchantment, Golem creation and many more have been made possible.

Avatarian Sublimation added credence to the unpopular belief that the Avatar is not only a dimension of power like other realms. An example being the dark dimension where the dreadlord Dormammu has dominion. The Avatar is instead, an actual god of magic. One with great influence in the physical world.

The greatest mystery of all, right next to what is under the Red Lotus base (see, most catastrophic natural phenomenon of the past few centuries for reference) is who or rather what is the Avatar.

-- Rumblings from an unknown 16th century Druid.

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(Aden's P.O.V)

I came to covered in warm light that reminded me of one of my mom's loving hugs.

"What..."

My throat was dry. No sooner had that thought crossed my mind than I immediately felt ok. As if the slight discomfort was immediately done away with the minute I recognized it. Weird.

I flexed my will, still not completely sure of what was happening. The warm light fractured right before my eyes and then the cocoon I was in, seemingly washed out into my surroundings in a gooey magical energy. The way I imagined sound would look like as a solid, viscous and thick. The energy melted into the ground.

I touched down on a warm carpet of green grass.

Whoa. This place was beautiful. And weird.

The sky kept on shifting color from a red hue to Pink then silver, then yellow and even more colors without a designated pattern. The air was full of small undetectable energy pockets, showing that anything living here would not need sustenance as the place itself provided the energy needed to live.

There was a waterfall, falling from a great height to my left, feeding into a small lake about 5 football fields in size. Then the lake itself had glowing floating lotuses with a few wisps of light fleeting about.

Are those fairies? I erased my presence and flew towards the lake, undetected. The water was so clear I could see deep into it's depths. Almost gasping at the beautiful aquatic plants and fish that reminded me of the water dimension's many variety of marine life.

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And yeah, they were fairies. Tiny humanoid forms that shared similarities with Tinker bell, dressed in colorful flower clothes made from petals and small leaves. They had kingdoms or rather, villages above the huge floating lotuses, all a variety of color. Some were blue, others were red, a few more Yellow and the last ones were green.

Huh. That's interesting. It's almost like they are following a theme.

What grabbed my attention and made me watch them for hours on end was how they seemed so...alive. like little actual people, arguing, laughing and pranking each other. They were so... beautiful.

I held out my hand to the lake.

"Protection from All that seek to do you harm."

I blessed them, using a lesser miracle. It worked but I frowned. The faith energy inside felt... different somehow. A multicolored shower of light fell upon the lake like snow. This way, no one could hurt them.

I left the lake and continued exploring more of the place. And it only left me amazed the more I saw of it.

There were a few animals as well. And they looked no different from the ones on Gaea except for one major difference. Color. A family of deer had green stripes across their brown hides. A fox with a burning yellow tail chasing after a purple rabbit that seemed to pop in and out of place with blue streaks of lightning, covering it's body.

A flock of birds flapped their wings and rode on white air that covered their bodies, above the sky. Then there was this humongous snake made entirely of a rocky carapace that had its body coiled around a huge tree housing literal bees with wings of darkness. And many more strange creatures.

This place was what you would expect the end of a rainbow to look like. Infact, I floated up towards the beautiful skies which were nothing but swirls of elemental energy particles. I knew what I needed to do. Like a command from the realm itself.

I looked at the wide spread of magic happening under me.

"I name you, Rainbow land..." There was a shudder and I felt a sort of wrongness. I frowned, did I always suck at naming stuff?

"Alright, here we go again. How about, Land of magic, Langic?"

The shudder was stronger this time. A tough customer, this one seemed to be.

"Arcadia?"

I got the sense it was too cliche'.

"Mystical Groove?"

Too simple.

"Myriad Palace."

Too ostentatious.

I tried every single name I could come up with while flying around some more, just enjoying the place. By the time I had flown around the small magical land that seemed to be the size of North America, I understood why none of what I was proposing worked. None of those words expressed what this actually was.

This was not like earth or Gaea. The only thing similar to it was the core of Gaea but even that lacked a very specific thing. I did not know what it was but...the connection I felt with this place was second to none. It resonated with me. As if I was it and it was me. A connection formed over millions, no, billions of years. My soul imprint was on every shred of energy and matter I could perceive.

That's it.

"I name you, Energia. My soul piece."

There wasn't a shudder or anything too eye-catching. Just a sense of rightness. A sense of correctness. The only thing missing was...

Wait. I blinked, getting out of the trance I had fallen into right after waking up. It was like this... incessant need to claim this land as mine by naming it was needed. Even though I already had a realm, it almost felt like...this one was simply just better. Like it was actually mine mine. Not something Order created. Yet, was that thought process right? I mean I loved Gaea and could control it with a thought, so...what was this?

I shook my head. Why was it also so hard to focus? It almost felt like I hadn't thought in so long, that my attention span was like a child's. Okay focus, what's happening?

I floated back to the ground slowly, My mind running at lightning speeds, trying to connect my thoughts and figure out why I was here when the last thing I remember was...

"Empty Hand."

My divine sense rippled out of me without a single instant wasted, presenting me with a change of scenery past Energia. If Empty Hand had survived Order then I had to change that. My gaze speared further, past the twisting and roiling layer of chaos and darkness encasing Energia in a protective membrane. And for good reason.

My god.

My divine sense told me of the impossible. For starters, Energia was not in my main dimension as I had theorized. Neither was it even in my main DC universe. I remember the earth being destroyed, yet here it was.

Time travel? No...that can't be it. Because how and why would 'they' be here then? A few very strange figures that only pointed to a terrifying conclusion. One that I needed to disapprove of immediately or risk insanity at just how far from home I was.

Especially because...I couldn't feel Gaea. I stomped down on that very grim thought and focused on proving myself wrong.

My divine sense swept out further, leaving behind the earth. Past the Solar system, past the nearest star system, billions of uninhabitable planets with a few among them that had life in all different ways. Like the blob people who looked like slimes living on a moon orbiting a cold planet on a star system 50000 light years away.

Then past the Quadrant, the kree, the nova empire and even more alien civilizations. Some were spread out over dozens of star systems, faster than light travel spaceships making that possible. I even managed to identify a few very important figures, Darksei...oh sorry Thanos and his retinue. I joke but the ominous feeling inside me only grew bigger and bigger.

Carol Danvers was fighting a Kree empire battalion in one of their many colonies and actually winning. Past the closest galaxies to our own there were even more crazy alien species and that only became true, the more my divine sense spread.

After covering the entire observable universe and with every single thing I detected only telling me what I did not want to hear, I pulled back my gaze.

This...

My legs lost their strength as I sat on a rock with my head held in between my hands.

"This is... impossible...how?"

The last thing I remember is giving the reins over to Order. Something went terribly wrong. I knew I could access the memories after a short meditation session and figure out what had happened and why I couldn't sense Gaea.

Before I could do exactly that, the few figures I had sensed outside of Energia made their move. I frowned. I had to deal with them first before I could get some privacy to access Order's memories and get some answers.

I felt Mars, which was simply the outer covering of Energia get pulled away by a power that made me raise my eyebrows. The energy was different from what I had ever felt while also containing an essence that was eerily familiar. That energy peeled away mars like a fruit, exposing the core. Exposing Energia.

I raised my eyebrows. Well, isn't that interesting.

Time to have a conversation with the Sorcerer Supreme.