ZSQuint

Soon after the creation of the elder gods by the Nameless, while the gods were placing their creations onto Norrath, the elemental gods gathered to make their own creation.

Unlike what the other gods created on Norrath, Fennin Ro,

Tarew Marr, The Rathe Council, and Xegony gathered for their own creation. They combined the very essence of their beings and created an object of infinite power, the

Quintessence of the Elements.

Once created the gods realized the danger any wielder of it would possess, so they locked it away in the Rathe's vault.

Very soon after its creation, the other gods learned what had been created and most watched in envy; however The

Warlord, Rallos Zek, saw great potential power in the object.

He planned a raid on the

Plane of Earth, to assault the

Rathe's Vault to steal the

Quintessence. His assault failed, but resulted in the death of the Council and the locking of mortals from the

Planes of Power. The four elementals realized the danger of allowing the Quintessence to exists, and realized the danger should any one of them possess it in its entirety, so they agreed to break it into its elemental components.

Since then, each of the elemental gods has protected their piece of the

Quintessence, while the rest of the Pantheon thought it destroyed..