╔T SEEMS THAT ╦AS, WHEN LEARNING OF HIS IMMINET DEATH, CALLED UPON ╩USTERNC FOR SALVATION. ╩USTERNC AGREED, ON CONDITIONTHAT ╦AS GIVE HIS REMAINING YEAR OF LIFETO ╩USTERNC. ╔N RETURN, ╩USTERNC WOULD ENSURE THAT ╦AS DID NOT DIE, BUT WAS SUSPENDED TO AWAIT THE COMMING OF A WIFEABLE TO RETURN HIM TO THE PHYSICAL PLANEAND LET HIM LIVE AS HE WAS MENT TO. ╘HUSTHE GREAT ╨EARL WAS CREATED, AND SENT TOTHE MYTHREALM FOR SAFEKEEPING. ╚OWEVER, A GRYPHON, ├INTOS, ROSE TO POWER IN THE MYTHREALM, AND CLAIMED THE PEARL AS HIS OWN. ╬OT CONTENT WITH LORDSHIP OF HIS OWN KIND, ├INTOS LOOKED UPON THE ╨EARL AND RECOGINZED IT AS HIS MEANS TO RULE HUMANKIND AS WELL. ╞OR, IFHE PREVENTED THE PASSAGE OF THE PROPHESY, ALL ABLE TO RULE ─ARKWOOD