The Great Awakening

Nearly a millennia ago marks the day the first human woke up. Jolana Arbor was the first of the awoken and the first to recieve the Donum Anima, or the Gift of Soul. She wandered a grass field among thousands of slumberers, eventually coming across a monolithic stone portal from which pure, cool water streamed. Jolana sipped from the portal and screamed out as she became the vessel of all the magic Yominokuni had to offer.   Jolana wandered the dangerous wilderness, which she named Yominokuni, for five years. She lived off the land and slowly discovered the other six fields of slumber scattered throughout the corners of the world. Over the course of these years, Jolana practiced her new magic and investigated the mysterious stone gates which were the only source of water to be found on Yominokuni.   After decades of trying to awaken her sleeping brethren, lonliness overcame Jolana. In her desperation, she set in action the ritual which would give life to all those who she had failed for years, but at a terrible cost. The first one to wake that dawn was Jolana’s daughter, Anya Arbor. However, their time together was tragically brief. Others awoke to see Jolana embracing her daughter, a look of true happiness in her eyes. Seeing others, Jolnana cried and begged forgiveness before whispering something in her daughter’s ear and kissing her one last time.