Many eons ago, when the world was created, it was created by five elements, life, wind, water, earth, and fire. These five elements created the earth, but realized it needed livening beings. They created the first humans. They made four tribes, Ivy, Waves, Flare, and Whirlwind. The elements gave themselves each to a human from each tribe. Fire to Flare, earth to Ivy, wind to Whirlwind, and water to Waves. These four humans working together were unstoppable with there gifts of controlling the elements. All was well, no death, no sadness, but then the Darke came.
The Darke was an evil spirt from the underworld who had once been an element. The element of life. But he turned evil and turned against his fellows. Darke too made a tribe, Darkness. He also gave himself to a human like the others. This human was now corrupt and wanted nothing but to destroy the elements. He changed from life to death. And so death was created. Now people began to die and the elements had do everything to protect them.
The elements were passed down from generation to generation. They were not shown until they were needed. Eventually, people forgot they existed. Until the day came. The day of Darkeness.