The Transcendents

Oh, hello there. Need a little dose of my charm?

No! I need your old-man brain. Read this report.

Ugh, I hate thinking. I enjoy fighting! And smooching! I really enjoy that last one a lot. This better not be about the Overseers and the Transcendents. Those are lessons you were supposed to learn in the third grade!

I was busy in the third grade! I played a lot of kickball...

That would explain a lot. Now then, you know the Transcendents watch over Light, Time, and Life, yes?

Yeah! And the Black Mage, Rhinne, and the World Tree are the Transcendents of Maple World. And the Black Mage is a jerk... kinda like Darmoor back in Grandis! Why'd they let them be in charge?

The Transcendents don't have to be good. They only have to bring about harmony.

Well, that sounds like a pretty stupid system.

Well, I suppose it is, but so is gravity! Stupid gravity keeping me on the ground... Anyway, the Black Mage, the Transcendent of Light, is evil here. Well someday, the light is going to even itself out and he'll be defeated by somebody who isn't a colossal jerk.

Why do these Transcendent guys even care what's going on in the world? They should just butt out!

The Transcendents can live forever, or they can perish, but they have to maintain a balance. When one of the three elements begins to falter, so will the Transcendent that watches over it...

Is that why Darmoor awakened as the Transcendent of Life when the High Flora fell?

Who the heck is Darmoor?

I thought you knew everything!

Look, babe, I'm all-powerful, but I'm not omnipotent. I only remember what happened before I jumped into this relic.

Don't call me babe, toad-breath. Did you take a look at this report Kaiser made yet?

Yeah, whatever, MADAME [Nama]. I'll look.

My goodness, he knows a lot more words than I thought he would. Give me a moment...

You have to give it to me first. Unless you want to snuggle up in my lap and read it to me...

This is pretty interesting. The Transcendents seem to have a sort of fascination with each others' powers.

Like, a crush on each other?

Nooo, hehehehe. So, both Darmoor and the Black Mage stole the powers of the Transcendents of Time, huh?

Oh, yeah, that mean old guy in Pantheon told me that the Interdimensional Portals appeared after Darmoor used Chronica's powers.

It sounds like that's a common theme. When one Transcendent uses another's powers, their seem to be a lot of negative side-effects. It could be as simple as a physical backlash, or it could disrupt the space-time continuum...

Awww, Eskalade...

What?

You are totally nerding out on this, huh?

This is important, you little strumpet! Besides, I wouldn't have to be the smart one if YOU studied a little more. Because, if you did, you'd know that WE need to go borrow the power of either the World Tree or Aeona.

Whaaaat?! How are we even gonna find them?!

I don't know. I remember Aeona was supposed to be around the Sanctum of Light, in my day, but I never saw her. The legend was that she was in a place only light could reach...

By the way, if you if you find any other, bawdier reading materials in your bag, just ignore those. They're dragon stories for dragons only.