“In the beginning, Nothingness was everything, in this eternal Nothingness, time did not exist, it is not known when or why, but something within Nothingness began to change, the first vestiges of Something emerged...”

Hey Niel, wake up - Listen next to me

This took me out of the sea of thoughts in which I was.

I wasn't sleeping - I answered, before turning to see who it was.

Oh, it was Choss, my little sister, well, even though I say little, we're twins.

Come on, Niel, you're always lost in thought - he complained as he pulled me out of the house.

Today was a special day, you could tell by looking at the few villagers around, how they headed to the nearby forest, or the atmosphere was much better than usual; today was Shara Day, as well as the day of the confirmation ceremony.

As we followed them to the forest, which was the place where the ceremony was held, he cannot help but remember again the story that the matriarch always told us, which is the reason for this ceremony.

“...the first traces of Something emerged. We call that Something Elementals, they are the basis of everything, namely, some of them were fire, water, anger, instinct, joy, and many others with names so archaic that they have been lost in history.

Unfortunately, compared to Nothing, which was immutable to everything, since it was everything, the elementals were not. They were so different, so unique, their ingenuity | Curiosity led them to meet looking for their similarities, even if they are the most minimal.

There was nothing wrong with getting together, but this union was so... evil, they were, greed, envy, scheming, avarice, anger, and many others, which we now call the evils. They wanted more power, more than they had, so they launched themselves against their peers in an effort to take away their power, but they couldn't, because they were more against them, but they did damage, so much damage, so much evil, their spilled essence became a plague that infected everything, in such a way that the elementals did not have much time to act, because they did not want to end the same, they wanted to continue existing with their essence intact, and only one solution was found. A solution that could be the basis of the future, for this they asked for help from Nothing, and Nothing, which never intervened, took pity on the beings that emerged from it. And thanks to this they erected a path, we call this Shara, and they connected a space, we call this Sheba.

This being the origin of time, since they formed the path to life, to reincarnation, they called this new origin Era, since within Nothingness something changed. And all the elementals entered this path, being the conscious, who were the survivors and the confused, who were the remains of the fallen. With this, the Era of the elementals ended and a new Era arrived, that of the Colossals, whom we can call the reincarnation of the elementals, since the elementals entered the Shara and they left, each one was not one, since in the Shara they were completed, integrated, reformed, many of them now being one.

The Colossals roamed the Sheba and transformed the Sheba to their liking, from here came what we know as dimensions, planets and stars. Some colossals met, from this union the Divines arose, for fear of the events of the past the other colossals tried to destroy this meeting, its fruits and involved, but compared to the previous era they lost, because, although the divines were weaker Like their parents, each union formed more than one divine, and this meeting had enough strength to emerge victorious.

After a long time, a long time, the colossals realized their mistake, because for each union made part of themselves was exhausted, and those who believed themselves immortal ended up going to the Shara over time, here the birth of the concept of the life, death and time.

Now only the divine existed in the Sheba and this was a new Era, the Era of the Divine, this was very turbulent, well, the divine knew fear, they knew that they were not immortal that time would lead them to their death. In their fear and desperation they looked for ways to extend their life time, some acted like the evils of past ages, they tried to absorb their peers, others opted for the imposition of their essence on their younger peers, there were those who met with the eagerness to create new life and impose their essence on them, but, instead of forcing this union and spending part of themselves like their predecessors, they were more ingenious, this new life was called the anointed, since they were born with the essence of their parents.

A war broke out between the divine and their different methods of prolonging their lives, this was what made this a turbulent era. But every beginning has an end, the war wore out the lives of the divine, 2 sides remained; the divine ones that absorbed their congeners; the anointed with their parents. This war was so heartbreaking that many essences were lost, others were corrupted, others were consumed, after a long time only the anointed ones remained tied to their divine progenitors, or at least that is what the divine ones believed, because many anointed ones were freed from the ties of their parents, even with essences or without these, were free and were afraid of being tied again, so they took advantage of the divine's moment of weakness and attacked until they were finished, this was achieved by the sacrifice of some by giving his strength but not his life to his fellow men, to achieve this goal.

Now only the anointed remained, both the free and the bound, those who had essence, as well as those who did not, and thus the era of the divine ended, and the Era of the anointed arrived.

Shortly after the beginning of this era many anointed ones disappeared, because compared to their predecessors, they were born and lived in fear, knowing that they were nothing more than just containers of their predecessors, for which after the war they left, to distant places where, if ever a new war broke out, it did not come to them, this era was the quietest, for no one had any evil intent. They knew that they were not eternal, one day their end would come, and so that what is life would not end with them, some met and conceived new life, these they called the born. Compared to their predecessors who were mostly unique, the born shared many similarities, which is why they came together, thus forming the concept of species and race.

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The anointed so that their descendants do not repeat the error of their ancestors, they transmitted to their descendants the history, the cause, the effect and the actions that were taken, but not their own essence, but they gave them talents in representation of it, all with the reason not to make those mistakes again, instilling it as a tradition. In addition, they taught them a phrase, so that they know what the basis of everything is, being this: We come from Nothing and to the [hugs of Nothing] (Shara) we will return, because she with her infinite kindness will return us to the Sheba, in an eternal cycle.

And so time passed, taking the anointed into the embrace of Nothingness, species and races disappeared, many were weakened, others were strengthened. Until there were no other anointed left, and thus the Age of the Anointed ended and the Age of the Born began, which is the current age. At the beginning of this era, when there were no anointed ones to direct the born, evil was conceived, and influenced many born; the strong were filled with avarice, greed and so many other things; the weak were filled with envy, conspiracy and so much more. This was the trigger for another great war, which we know as the War of the Born. This resulted in the extinction of many born, as a time of decadence for all, many inheritances were lost, many treasures were destroyed, the legacy and knowledge was damaged.

We humans who were neither strong nor weak persevered through these tumultuous times and survived. An agreement was reached between the surviving born, the lands were divided, in addition to a peace pact between the born. But this did not end like this, as if the destruction caused by the war between the born was not enough, each born fought against their peers for the little power, legacy and knowledge that remained, for the same evil, as if they had not learned anything. We call that period the Annihilation, for nothing remains of all this but vestiges of obsolete knowledge and traditions of past ages.”

Hey Niel, come back, have you lost yourself in your thoughts again? – Choss looked at me angrily – The matriarch is done with the tradition, now only the confirmation ceremony is missing.

Oh, is the story over yet? – You could hear the reluctance in my voice.

Well, maybe some don't know it yet, but the confirmation ceremony – I heard the voice of the matriarch – is about the inheritance of the anointed ones to their children, as the story goes, our anointed predecessors, they made us promise to carry on the tradition of transmitting the history of the ages, and for the benefit of fulfilling our promise, he gave us talents by connecting to the Shara, because they went to rest through the Shara and we came to the world through it. Today, which is the day of Shara, where our connection is the deepest with Nothingness, it will grant us blessings to the new born, among other words, to you children.

I looked around and saw many adults with smiles and anticipation on their faces as they watched their excited children.

Compared to them, I was somewhat calmer, of course, somewhat, not totally; my little sister similarly. This is because we are direct family of the matriarch, so we found out a long time before, well, although not directly, since it is forbidden for adults to talk about this with children, since it is feared that this will lead to evil .

Now, all the children go to the center - continued the matriarch, while she prepared the ritual.

As the other children, my sister and I approached the center, I could see the eyes of the adults on my sister and me, this is mainly due to the fact that we are children of the village chief.

Well, all the families of the chiefs of the villages always have more than 2 children, being only 2 who would have, in addition to their natural talents, also legacy talents, one with the talent of the way, and another with the talent of the word. With the objective of being the head of the village, and the other the messenger of the village, in the event of the death of one of the possessors of the talents, this would pass to the living brother, until the birth of a new member, or the resignation of the family to continue with the leadership of the town.

This is not a unique case, as it is said that there are several talents that are shared in a similar way, such as those of nobles, kings, merchants, commanders, etc. Although it is more common to see it in the big cities than in the villages.

Well, because of this, one more tradition was born, the marriage between people who shared the same talent, for the survival of this, for example, in the families that lead the villages, it was that the messenger after reaching adulthood has to marry to the head of another village. Well, in this way, the villages are associated with other villages, and are more united in the face of any difficulty they may face.

Well, we still have a couple of years to worry about that because both Choss and I are 12 years old, and the age of adulthood is 17 years old.

While I was still lost in my thoughts, the matriarch had already finished preparing the ritual.

Well, children - said the matriarch, as she stood in the center - now let's start, first everyone hold hands and close your eyes, this will be a unique experience, because you will see Shara and hopefully Nothing

I felt the elbow of my little sister, who brought me back to the reality of my thoughts – Mom is watching you, if you continue like this they will scold you when you return home

I looked around and realized that everyone had already held hands and closed their eyes, while I was lost in thought, I hurriedly squeezed in between them and closed my eyes. Then I began to listen to the prayer of the matriarch, my mother, which I did not understand, because it was in an archaic language, besides it could never be memorized, since they were not repeated because it was based on the direction and distance of the Shara, this it's only possible with the help of legacy talent that guides you through the process.

Everyone, pay attention - my mother said at the end of the sentence - that now you will see a light.

Out of nowhere, even with my eyes closed I could notice a bright spot in the distance, I felt something warm run through my body when I saw it.

Focus on the light and wish to get closer to the light – continuous – don't despair, feel it slowly.

Following my mother's recommendations, I wanted the light to come closer to me, although I didn't feel it come closer, rather I saw that the path that separated us was shrinking little by little. After a while the light was already in front of me, and the warm feeling became stronger, if before it was like putting on a coat, now it felt like my mother's warm embrace.

Don't touch the light, not yet – my mother said, as if realizing that we were about to touch it – wait a moment longer – after a long time, continuous – now, before you touch the light, remember that when you touch it you will go walk through the Shara and it will anoint them with a talent for fulfilling the agreed promise, with that their ceremony would end, now if they can touch the light.