“Eventually, some of the balancers decided that enough was enough. They wanted to live in harmony with the Earth again. When the Darkness next struck, one of them was able to kill him. She became the first Leader of Light and the new Master of the Elements. The balancers were ready to live the way their ancestors had, with the power of the Rings on their side.
“But the Darkness’s work had been done. The original descendants had passed into myth and legend, and his followers were all too eager to continue his work of exterminating all remaining balancers. One of them rose up to take his place as the new Darkness. So the Leader of Light hid the rings away, only revealing their location to her most loyal followers. Over time, the rings have been found and hidden again many times, and the ma
