Era #1 (Gods)
Far before the first human on Pafiraso, there were two terrestrial beings called Polars. In the beginning, they were conjoined as the supercontinent we now call Kipao. Even though the Polars’s consciousness wasn’t a tangible thing, their bodies took the form of the land. Their power manifested in the four elements, earth, water, air, and fire. This manifestation is what made Kipao a continent in the first place.
Longer down the line, several myriads later, the Polars were engaged in a feud. It led to the land being damaged, only with huge fissures at first, but eventually, such a divide was born that Qipos split in half altogether, giving birth to two new continents, Aqualois and Lutuferlis. This event is called The Rupture. Unfortunately, now that Kipao was no longer one, the four elements that resided in the Polars’ bonded form were also no longer united. This led to the early stage in the appearance of cores, two physical projections of the Polars’s souls and the elements that came with them. Each resided in one of the two continents, Aqualois’s core harbored air and water, and Lutuferlis’s harbored fire and earth. At the moment, the cores were a force of pure power that overtook the land, encasing both continents in pulsating energy.
Cores are the source of all of the magic in the world. However, at this stage, the amount of power imbued in them made them unstable. This led to the land on each continent fluctuating wildly. It caused Aqualois to shrink over the course of years, while Lutuferlis grew out of control, simultaneously expanding and fracturing. These fractures are why we have rivers.
The Polars could not let this go on. If this kept up, soon both of their bodies would be destroyed. They decided to be civil once more, condensing the cores into the form we know them to be in today, two points, two poles of magic. This is where the name Polars came from.
The Polars tried their best to repair the land, but the only way to do that was with a steady, long period of healing. This prompted them to lay down to rest as the continents knit themselves back together.