amaethon & avesta were originally one being, the infinite spirit avethon, which was an omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent and was a consciousness that permeated everything on the earth. during this time, the earth was completely dark and barren, and inhabited by draconic people, the children of avethon and the ancestors of the modern day manaketes.

one day, the sky split in half, and light poured onto the earth, and plants and life sprung forth from the ground. rivers began flowing, mountains split and waterfalls rushed forth from the fissures. new life also emerged — the beginnings of humans and animals.

some manaketes embraced the light and the life it brought. however, an equal number found the change frightening, and were unwilling to share their newfound bounty with the new creatures. avethon, which shared one consciousness with all its children, was rent into two separate beings: amaethon and avesta, dragon-like gods, avesta ruling from the sky and embracing all the earth’s children who would live and flourish together in the light, and amaethon retreating with his followers into the deepest caves of the northern mountains to rule the darkness.

amaethon, however, was not content to live in darkness with his people. though he would not reconcile with avesta, his heart was wounded by their souls having been split apart. for seven days, and seven nights, he raged and despaired, and new mountains and rivers erupted from the earth, separating his northern domain from the south and tearing apart avesta’s people the same way he had been torn from her. avesta, too, was heartbroken, and while amaethon raged, avesta wept in deepest sorrow. from the celestial breach, her tears rained forth in the form of stars upon the earth. the fallen stars resembled beautiful stones, and were collected by her people and kept safe, forged into a great tower shield — what would later become known as the fire emblem.

the separation of the north from the south created two new territories, one whose followers worshipped avesta and the other devoted to amaethon. in order to decide whose followers were the true people of avethon, avesta’s and amaethon’s followers challenged each other to battle.

the northern people named their strongest as their champion, a youth named akron, who was then armed by amaethon with his sacred weapon, the empyrean lance, forged from the metal found deep in the rock of the mountain he inhibited. akron was then sent to launch an attack on avesta’s people. avesta’s champion, ceridwen, who was the wisest and most valiant of her people, was armed with the ____ axe. though the two fought long and hard, they found themselves at a stalemate. at last, fearing ceridwen would be defeated, avesta’s people presented her with the shield they had forged. using the shield, ceridwen was able to deflect what would have been a mortal blow from akron’s spear, though she refused to end akron’s life. ceridwen had thus won her people the right to call themselves descendants of avethon. in her honour, they named their land after her — ceridunn. though akron was defeated, amaethon’s people were nevertheless thankful for his efforts, and thereafter called themselves the acheron after him, their greatest hero.

years later, when ceridunn and adrastia were once again on amicable terms, ceridwen and akron met in secret and agreed that both avesta’s and amaethon’s people were descendants of avethon. thus, to prevent further discord between their peoples, the two divided the fire emblem into five pieces — four stones, and the base of the shield. as the avestans had won the battle, ceridunn was tasked with safeguarding the base. akron took one stone with him to safeguard, and the rest were divided among the three next mightiest tribes on the continent — the cavallais, the orkadis and the arbethyn.