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Thief Legend: Time Keeper

Background Story

Let's say there was an island below the Temple of Time, inhabited by people that worship the Time Goddess. Every year, there is a festival held in her honor.

The Thief Legend is initially an ordinary citizen of the island that is asked to help with setting up the current year's festivities. He gets a lot of comments about his decision to train in the arts of the Thief, particularly in the use of claws and throwing stars, because most members of his family, including his younger brother and his older sister, tend to end up becoming Mages and Archers due to being attuned to the element of fire.

While running an errand, he notes that there's a lot of ice washing up on the island lately. He then finds a strange bag along the beach. He opens it to find a stone not unlike those found in the Temple of Time. Just then, a strange monster, definitely not from the island, attacks him. However... The stone seems to react, weakening it by slowing it down - and as with all Thieves, being faster is an advantage, so he manages to dispatch it quite easily. Afterwards, he finishes up his errand and tells his family what happened. His brother mentions that he talked to a kind traveler earlier, some sort of archer that said that she was chasing someone 'very, very bad'. His sister suggests going to see the Priest during the festival to find out exactly what the stone is.

During the festival, he speaks to the Priest in the town chapel, who seems absolutely shocked upon seeing the stone. The thief has no idea why, because it looks almost like any other stone from the Temple of Time. He even suggests that it might have fallen from the Temple somehow. The Priest stammers something about melted icebergs from Rien. The thief then remembers what the stone did during the attack, and mentions it to the Priest. Just then, the thief's sister enters the chapel and runs up to the Priest, saying that she and her younger brother were attacked in the outskirts of the town. She says that the attacker was looking for a stone, the one that her eldest brother has, and that the kind traveler that her younger brother mentioned earlier chased off the attacker.

The three then hear some yelling from the guards, yelling for someone outside to halt. The guards are tossed aside like nothing, and a shadowy figure enters. The Priest tells the thief and his sister to hide while he deals with this outsider himself. The Priest also gets tossed aside like nothing - but at least he bought time for the kind traveler to enter. The thief overhears some of the following conversation - something about the attacker being a member of the Black Wings, the kind traveler being a descendant of a legendary archer, and something about the Black Wings member wanting the stone that he found.

The stone then seems to react, showing the thief a vision of a girl wielding a dagger and a shield. She is accompanied by four companions, fighting against a mysterious robed figure. Just as his vision fades away, a fight breaks out in the chapel, and the Archer wipes the floor with the Black Wings member.

After a brief conversation with the Archer, everything gets cleaned up and the festival ends. After telling the Priest about the vision that he just received, the thief is advised to go travel the world, become stronger, and prevent the stone that he holds from falling into the wrong hands. He wonders if the thief finding the stone is part of some divine plan by the Time Goddess. Could the thief already be attuned to the powers of the stone, and manipulate time? Did that stone even belong to that fabled hero..?

The Priest tells the thief to start at Victoria Island. The thiefs brother and sister comment on their jealousy of him being able to leave the island and explore. Right before the thief boards the boat to Lith Harbor, he gets another vision, this time with the same girl from before seemingly attempting to speak to him but he doesnt yet know if the vision is real, and if responding would even do anything. Regardless, the girl instructs him to go to Kerning City and look for the leader of the Thieves of Victoria Island.

(Notice how there's a stairway into the Temple itself? Perhaps there's another stairway down to the island itself. The island would have a boat that goes to Lith Harbor and a flight that goes to Orbis. Obviously there would be a high level quest to gain access to the Temple of Time through the island entrance, preventing low level characters, particularly those of the Thief Legend, from entering the Temple of Time too early.)

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