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the
Civilians believed the war to be part of history. The exact date of
this event was on the Third of May.
    The day of the
eclipse.
    The day where the Regius
surprised a large rebellion of Altors, who were scouting the
Wastelands of Xenon, planning on ambushing the Blue Bloods. Many
Altors died that day, many families destroyed, never to be revived
again. Many died believing they shouldn't have, creating a Valley
that holds the souls of those who do not wish to pass on. The
Valley of Death.
    Only one Altor did not die.
He woke, surrounded by hundreds of Altor bodies whose souls had
left their harbors. The man went mad. He couldn't handle the
sight.
    I've seen it. I nearly went
mad myself. Of course some would say I was mad already.
    This man, who was to become
Datura's ancestor, sang. Alone on the battlefield, surrounded by
piled up bodies of brave Altor soldiers, he sang. A melody so
bittersweet, it called to the ghosts.
    The great battle of Xenon.
Not only did it create the Keepers of the Dead, a lot more happened
afterwards that would nearly devastate the entire race called
Altors. Because of this battle, the numbers of the rebellion was
reduced to practically nothing and forced the Altors to seek their
wives and husbands elsewhere. Their blood mingled with that of the
Civilians and many Altor children without the extra strength were
born. A vulnerability Altors couldn't really afford.
    Along with the mingled
blood came the poison, the sickness that could kill the Altors.
Many more died because they had no idea what to do, no idea how to
remove the blue blood within and keep these children alive.
Ironically, it was Maitre and Rhamnus' ancestor who found a
cure.
    Not all children were
killed by the Regius on sight. Unfortunately, or fortunately as it
depended how you viewed it, some were brought within the Blue Blood
territory to be tested on. Altors were an abnormality the Regius
wished to get rid of, yet those very few, such as the ancestor,
were curious. He wished to know what the disease was that helped
them reduce the numbers of the Altors. Had Maitre the First never
found the cure to what we call 'the poison', the Altors would have
surely died out on their own. It was quite ironic to know the
Altors were still very much alive and fighting the Regius as best
they could thanks to a Blue Blood scientist who tested an Altor
child that would become Pieris Saxton’s ancestor.
    Maitre the First figured
out what it was that killed the Altors, and to test his
intelligence, he began finding a cure for it. Thus the trigger came
to be. Having been triggered, Pieris' ancestor got caught in an
outburst, seeing red as a sign of danger for the first time, giving
birth to the Altor vision. He massacred the Blue Bloods that held
him captive; along with Maitre the First who'd already fathered a
daughter and would then carry on the line in order to bring to life
Maitre and Rhamnus.
    Getting rid of those who
kept him within the claws of the Regius, Pieris' ancestor escaped
and returned to his people with a cure. Pieris' ancestor was the
one who befriended a man named Jen, an Altor who loved books, and
was the ancestor to Jan and Jatrop Jansen. He was the one that
figured out the smaller details concerning the trigger, explaining
that believing you were about to die, was the only way to allow the
outburst to set in. Those two together founded the Coliseum on
Serenium ground and made it a safe place for Altor children to
come, a place where they could trigger those kids who would die
unless something was done about it. Thus came to be the Altor
Coliseum, which today could be compared to a school.
    "I need her to confirm
Digitalis has gotten what I want." I blinked out of my vision when
a voice could be heard behind the door that led within my
conservatory. Conservatory was such a fitting quarter for me to
live in. I was being conserved.
    "The only reason the army
is not revolting against you, Steward, is because I order them not
too. And I