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Once upon a time, long ago, the Gods made Iolyce, the keeper of the Four Winds.

He lived far to the west across a sea as flat, blue and warm as the summer sky.

His islands floated like oak leaves drifting across the water in whatever direction he liked.

And he had a beautiful daughter named Alcoyony.

Far away, the Titan of the dusk and Titaness of the dawn gave bath to the morning star.

In time, he fell in love with the princess of a land called Tracus, which used to stand

by the blue shores of the Malion Gulf.

They married and had a son named Kex, who grew into a handsome and gentle young man.

Because the winds often rise at dawn and dusk, Iolus came to know the Titans and the morning

star.

This was how their children, Kex and Alcoyony came to meet one night as they walked

along the dusky beaches of Tracus.

They fell in love as the light of the morning star rose in the sky above and were married

soon after.

From the moment of their first kiss, Kex shone like a star as well, with the radiance

of his father, a testament to their true love.

But not even the children of winds and stars are immune to those designs spun for us by

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