The events of the Path of the Four Elements marked the final turning point in the long and mythic saga of the Worldstones. When the Imperial fleet, under the command of Immortal Emperor Caeus, shattered the Worldstones in an effort to seize control of elemental power, the very anchors of cosmic balance fractured. The Archons, once stewards of stability, were thrown into titanic fury, unleashing their true forms upon the Prime Plane and threatening to rend the world asunder.
But from the heart of devastation rose Talyen, Avatar of the Four Elements—unifier of sun, earth, water, and air. Channeling the dying essences of the sundered Worldstones and the elemental Archons themselves, Talyen rifted each elemental force into a singular argent spiral of Rift Energy: the Infinity Helix. In doing so, he became the living vessel of balance and sealed The Continuum Crystal once and for all, not with warded bindings, but with harmony formed of interwoven unity.
From that moment forward, the Worldstones were no longer needed.
Their dissolution did not herald the end of elemental stability, but the evolution of it. The elemental forces once funneled rigidly through these titanic relics now flowed freely through the reformed Riftways, guided by the new cosmic principle forged by Talyen’s sacrifice—elemental harmony without domination.
The Riftways, cosmic corridors between realms, are kept in delicate tune by Symetrius, the Primus deity of order. Where the Worldstones once served as firm anchors, Symetrius now tends the living weave of the elemental planes, ensuring the balanced convergence of energies without the need for confinement.
In this new age—the Era of Elemental Elysium—the elemental forces no longer compete, but coexist. Storms form not in wrath, but in rhythm. Flames dance not in rage, but in renewal. The boundaries between the Elemental Planes and the Prime Plane have become permeable, symbiotic, and ever-changing—no longer bound by artifacts of stone, but by a continuum of conscious balance.
Will of the Worldstones
Though their physical forms are gone, the mythos of the Worldstones endures. Across the Prime Plane, their names are etched in monuments, spoken in prayer, and remembered in elemental rites.
- The Sunstone is honored in the reverent prayers of flamekin and Solir descendants (especially in the Serrakhan Sultanate).
- The Earthstone is revered in the deepstone shrines of the Njordir, where geomancers whisper to the still-lingering voice of mountains.
- The Seastone is invoked in tidal sea-songs by the Unknown, whose sages sing of its currents and the wisdom of Mythia.
- The Etherstone is studied in the arcane sanctums of Aerenal, where scholars, arcanists, and sages trace its spirals through the aetherwinds of Ether which permeate all things.
What remains is not a relic—but a truth: the Worldstones were always meant to fade. In their sacrifice, they gave rise to a more perfect form of balance—one not dictated by rigid boundaries, but by the resonant breath of the cosmos.
The mortal realm now bears that responsibility. Elemental harmony, once a divine mandate, has become a living legacy.